Professional profile:

The Specialist in Speech-Language Pathology in Critical Care from Fundación Universitaria María Cano is a professional with critical thinking, problem-solving skills, social commitment, and a glocal vision, who is entrepreneurial and innovative, and whose actions focus on the care of patients/users across the entire life span in critical care units.

Their technical and procedural skills enable them to carry out evaluation-diagnosis and treatment processes for communication disorders and oral-pharyngeal function disorders associated with health conditions and hospitalization, using advanced products and instrumentation. Likewise, they will provide counseling and consulting services in speech-language pathology and design and implement strategies for prevention and promotion of health and communicative well-being in these settings, incorporating research and management processes.

The specialist recognizes scientific evidence, interprofessional collaborative work, and the humanization of care as fundamental pillars of their practice, contributing to the quality of life and communicative well-being of individuals, groups, and populations.

Occupational profile

Graduates may work in the following areas:

• Clinical Practice: In critical care units at any level (intensive, intermediate, chronic, palliative) across the life course (neonatal, pediatric, and adult populations). Their training enables them to develop humanization programs through communication, interaction strategies, and advisory and counseling processes for professionals and families within critical care units.

• Research: The scientific training core provides tools to formulate and develop research projects that contribute to disciplinary and professional knowledge and generate evidence on speech-language pathology management in critical care units. It also enables teaching in Speech-Language Pathology faculties and programs, and related programs.

• Administration and Management of Speech-Language Pathology Services in Critical Care: Graduates may undertake, lead, and innovate plans, programs, and projects aimed at transforming knowledge and improving the quality of speech-language pathology services in public and private institutions. They will also make sound technical, technological, scientific, and administrative decisions that promote individual and collective well-being in these settings.

Considering the above, the graduate profile responds to the nationally established competencies for specialists, across the areas and domains of the profession, recognizing the importance of their role in critical care units, the health conditions of individuals, scientific evidence, interprofessional collaborative work, and the humanization of care. Likewise, the program aligns with the vision of Fundación Universitaria María Cano, which promotes the training of entrepreneurial and innovative professionals; the quality of its programs and services; knowledge transfer for solving contextual problems and needs; participation in national and international knowledge and cooperation networks; and contribution to the development and transformation of people’s quality of life.

Admission Requirements Undergraduate Programs

Admission requirements New In-person and Virtual Undergraduate Applicant

To enter any of the undergraduate programs offered by María Cano, the new applicant must complete the following procedure:

1. Fill out the online registration form
2. Make the payment of undergraduate registration fees $224.760
3. At the end of the registration form, upload to the platform the following documents one by one (in PDF format) as indicated at the end:

• Photocopy of the high school degree certificate or diploma, if you have not yet completed grade 11, original study certificate, issued by the school valid for no more than one month.
• Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11), if you do not have the results you can attach the citation to the test.
• A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
• A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
• Documents are not received physically unless required during the admission process.

4. Print the registration payment form at the end of online registration or make payment through PSE.

*The Foundation reserves the right to admit and assign study schedules to students.