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BARCIELA GONZALEZ LONGORIA, María de la Caridad; GRAU LEON, Ileana Bárbara; URBIZO VELEZ, Joaquín Juan  y  SOTO CANTERO, Luis Atilano. Evaluation of the quality of dentistry careers. Educ Med Super [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.2, pp.260-271. ISSN 0864-2141.

Since 2002 the university career evaluation and accreditation system has been upgraded with a view to assuring the quality of professional formation. Dentistry careers in 6 provinces have been subjected to external evaluation processes to attain various levels of accreditation. The objective of this paper was to show the most significant results (strengths and weaknesses) of the careers under external evaluation processes. The most used methods were documentary review, interviews, processing and analysis of statistical information both on care rendered to the population and academic work. This information was summarized in percentages, indicators, and others. The variables and indicators taken into account were those set by the university career evaluation and accreditation system. The main strengths were relevance and social impact of the careers in all the territories, the presence of the dentistry students in social impact tasks, the quality of professors as educators, among others. The most common weaknesses were related to systematic assurance of resources, the insufficient number of Ph doctors in the faculties and the scientific production did not reach the expected levels. Out of all the analyzed variables, the best results went to variable Social Relevance and Impact for all the careers, and the less satisfactory results were observed in the variable Professors. The accreditation process allowed developing an academic movement towards the continuous upgrading of the quality of the university processes.

Palabras clave : external evaluation; quality variables; permanent upgrading; dentistry career.

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