Background to the Initial Accreditation Processes For Dental Post-Graduate Programmes at Universidad de La Frontera – Chile

Ramón Fuentes Fernández & Claudia Riquelme Macalusso

Summary

This article presents the experience and results of the Dental School of the La Frontera University, when implementing a-priori process of self-assessment to the creation of the criteria for dental specialties of the CNA-Chile, the first three dental specialties were sent to accreditation processes in Chile. What generated that it is the first Dental School to implement a Quality Management System, driven by the search for the continuous improvement of its specialty programs.

KEY WORDS: self-evaluation, accreditation, quality management system.

How to cite this article

FUENTES, F. R. & RIQUELME, M. C. Background to the initial accreditation processes for dental post-graduate programmes at Universidad de La Frontera - Chile. Int. J. Odontostomat., 15(2):454-459, 2021.