Una Interculturalidad Auditada: Cumplimiento Simbólico y Simplificación Burocrática en la Educación Sanitaria Chilena

Interculturality has become a central component of global higher education, particularly in healthcare, where it is formalized as both an ethical requirement and a technical skill set. In Chile, its institutionalization occurs within a managerial governance regime driven by the National Accreditation Commission, which risks depoliticizing interculturality and reducing it to an administrative task centered on demonstrable compliance. This qualitative multiple case study examines how academics and programme-level administrators in health programs, including Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery, Medical Technology, Kinesiology, and Nutrition and Dietetics, across five Chilean universities navigate these transformations. Drawing on a translational perspective, the research analyzes the organizational logics that shape the management of interculturality. Findings show that participants endorse its ethical imperatives but are required to rearticulate complex practices into auditable outputs, such as discrete competencies or checklists. This dynamic produces ambivalence, revealing how managerial rationalities govern diversity by converting moral commitments into performative representations. However, this infrastructure also enables academic agency, allowing the strategic use of the audit to legitimize interculturality and secure resources.