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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Professional training in Chile has shown an explosive growth, although with lag in the health area due to intrinsic specificities.
Objectives: To explore the phenomenon's impact on the processes of training, qualification and employability in traditional majors such as Medicine, Nursing and Dentistry, during the years 2007-2015.
Methods: With the use of official databases, a set of indexes were constructed in order to characterize the actual state of training and employment in three traditional health majors.
Results: Data between the years 2007 and 2015 reported a strong growth in enrollment, especially private enrollment, where more than half of the programs are taught by institutions of this nature. A greater social mix of the students is observed, although the tendency to over-representation of high-income segments persists. The programs exhibit adequate levels of internal efficiency, with limited quitting and failure rates, a high rate of graduates and adequate levels of income and employment.
Conclusions: Although adequate indexes of internal efficiency and employability are observed with respect to the generality of the system, the increase of the offer and the mass of graduates will stress the training and employability processes, devaluing the educational credentials, installing in the labor market a greater ability to discriminate on the basis of the institution and program.