Introduction.

The academic development and the increase in the offer in higher education, have generated the need to incorporate tools to monitor and to ensure the quality of institutions, careers, and educational programs. Which have motivated the interest in generating quality control mechanisms for these purposes.

Materials and methods.

it was designed a monitoring tool that uses in a first stage, surveys to teachers and students to monitor the compliance of the graduation profile of the Diego Portales University Dentistry career. Subsequently, in a second stage, focus groups were held to enrich the information and validate the results.

Results.

The results showed that the study plan allows the development of the competences declared in the graduation profile; correspondence between the contents, methodologies, criteria and evaluation instruments are presents; various educational methodologies are used; evaluation criteria exists and most of the learning is evaluated and considering it as relevant. Teachers and students partially recognize the level of preparation they acquire after completing the monitored subjects.

Conclusions.

This monitoring contributes to the diagnosis of gaps and shortcomings in the Study Plan. It allows adjustments in a timely manner, and it shows that these monitoring tools are a necessity. The essence of the questionnaire allows it to be used by other careers as well.

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