Institutional fieldwork begins in the city of Popayán with the project «Evaluation of the Impact of Undergraduate Training on Graduates of the María Cano University Foundation», which is led by the researcher Ricardo León Sánchez Arenas of the SUMAR Research group, of the Faculty of Business Sciences, and the co-investigators Humberto Serna Gómez, Ana María Pérez Naranjo, Eudis Eugenia López Gómez, Sorleida Granda Casas and Jairo Hernán Meneses Ordoñez who is the head of the Graduates Office. Within the framework of this project, different activities are contemplated that are vital for the development and application: academic event, in-depth interview with the employer sector and with the different focus groups with graduates of the Institution.

The results of this important study are used by the María Cano University Foundation for decision-making on curriculum issues, study plans and offers of continuing education programs, among other alternatives. The main purpose of the research is to evaluate the impact on training of the institution’s graduates and thereby increasingly align the training process of students with the needs of the employer sector.

Within the framework of the visit to the city of Popayán, Professor Ricardo León Sánchez Arenas and Professor Elizabeth Roldán González, attached to the María Cano FISIOTER Research Group, met with Mr. Dubán Ely Quintero Muñoz, who is the Leader of the Public Health Surveillance Process of the Departmental Secretary of Health of Cauca; with which the research Analysis of the Behavior of covid-19 in the department of Cauca was developed, between the groups FISIOTER, SUMAR and researchers from the International University of La Rioja – UNIR. This research is focused on an epidemiological analysis of the pandemic for indigenous communities and pregnant women in the department.

This institutional research, with international participation, will produce organizational innovation products for the municipalities of Popayán, Santander de Quilichao, Silvia and Piendamó in the department of Cauca, as well as an article published in a leading indexed journal. In this way, the strengthening of the investigative process of María Cano, institutional visibility and high-impact production for the different communities continues.

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