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Educación Médica Superior

Print version ISSN 0864-2141On-line version ISSN 1561-2902

Abstract

ALEMANY PEREZ, Eduardo Joaquín; CUNILL LOPEZ, María Elena; HERRERA MASO, Juan Rubén  and  BERNAZA RODRIGUEZ, Guillermo Jesús. Quality Management on Master’s Programs. Educ Med Super [online]. 2021, vol.35, n.4, e3165.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 0864-2141.

Introduction:

Accreditation at the University of Medical Sciences of Havana began in 2002. Since then, a total of 41 external assessment processes have been carried out in 25 master's programs.

Objective:

To describe quality management for master's programs at the University of Medical Sciences of Havana.

Methods:

A cross-sectional and descriptive research was carried out in the first quarter of 2021, for which qualitative-quantitative methods and procedures were used.

Results:

Of the authorized programs, seven lost their accreditation status for different reasons. Eighteen, of which ten were of excellence, six were certified and two were qualified, had a category higher than the authorized one. Four were conceived to carry out remote external assessment processes in 2021, while another thirteen were expected to do so in 2022. The current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the master's programs taking on various modalities to give continuity to their execution, upon considering the orientations from the National Accreditation Board. The documents reviewed highlighted the implementation of the Applied Research Project.

Conclusions:

Quality management for master's programs advances over the years. Those creditable have a higher accreditation category, with a predominance of the excellence category. The external assessment processes are projected for 2021 and 2022, while an Applied Research Project is being executed and consolidates the actions of this strategy.

Keywords : quality managment; accreditation; COVID-19; master’s program.

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