Monitoring of the Study Plan, based on the Graduation Profile, as a mechanism to contribute to quality improvement.

Abstract

Introduction: University development and the increase in supply in Higher Education generates the need to incorporate systems to ensure the quality of institutions, careers and educational programs and increases interest in
strengthening quality control mechanisms of training processes.
Methodology: A mechanism was designed that, through surveys and focus groups, collects information from teachers, students and graduates to monitor compliance with the Graduation Profile of the Dentistry career at the Diego Portales University.
Results: The results support that the mechanism allows obtaining concrete information about the training process that includes: perception of the level of development of the skills achieved by the students after taking key subjects,
correspondence between learning results of the Study Plan and those declared in subject programs, coherence between learning results with methodologies, learning and evaluation processes.
Conclusions: This mechanism contributes to showing whether the competencies declared in the Graduation Profile are developed gradually and systematically during the training process. It contributes to the diagnosis of
gaps and deficiencies that can be corrected in a timely manner. The nature of the questionnaire allows it to be used by other careers.