This article derived from a research conducted for two doctorate degree projects in education sciences. These projects dealt with the training practices in nursing and medicine in order to make visible the relations entanglement of discourses and discursive practices present in the education programs for nurses and physicians in Colombia, from 1992 to 2014. Archaeology and genealogy were used as methodological tools enabling to disclose great changes –related to the health care conditions– made visible through the practices taking place in the curricular field within the college environment.