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En este artículo se describen las memorias de la integración de una estudiante talentosa de la formación superior técnica tecnológica ecuatoriana en un concurso académico externo. El proceso metodológico se basa en la consecución de tres fases: la primera, para la selección y preparación de la estudiante; la segunda, para el desarrollo del concurso; y la tercera, para evaluar las competencias adquiridas por la estudiante tras su participación. La experiencia y los aprendizajes de la participación exitosa en el evento recaen principalmente sobre el fortalecimiento de las competencias de tipo conductuales, relacionadas con la perseverancia para alcanzar y concluir las metas trazadas, el desempeño eficaz durante el trabajo colaborativo, el desarrollo de relaciones sociales efectivas y el autorreconocimiento como individuo que aporta a un determinado nicho social y al sector productivo para el cual se ha formado. Los resultados alcanzados posesionan a la vinculación de alumnos talentosos a los concursos externos como una estrategia válida para el desarrollo de competencias, principalmente conductuales, que por razones y condiciones propias de este tipo de estudiantes no se han podido potencializar en las aulas.

A total of 249 persons living in the northwest part of Ecuador with a clinical diagnosis of malaria confirmed by thick blood films were treated with chloroquine and primaquine according to the therapeutical system in force in the National Service for Eradication of Malaria. New clinical assessment and thick blood film were applied after 4 days in P. falciparum (n = 120) cases and after 8 days in P. vivax (n = 129) cases; patients were questioned about the compliance or non-compliance with the treatment, and the reasons for their acting in either way were studied. EPI-INFO 6.04 and SPSS PC 7.0 packages served to process the information: "kind adjustment test" (bondad de ajuste) abd factorial analysis of correspondences were used. The patient who daily took his/her pills for the number of days indicated, at the established intervals and at the right time was defined as a patient complying with the drug therapy. For every 3 patients complying with treatment, there were 2 who did not; non-compliance was not significantly related to age, sex, educational level, ethnic group, urban or rural setting or level of income, but learning about seriousness of the infection did help to compliance with the therapy. The reasons for non-compliance were mainly associated with drugs (side effects/reluctancy to take drugs), with the fact of forgetting to take them and of "getting cured quickly". The profile of the patient who did not comply with treatment corresponded to male, teenager, mixed race, poor and rural setting.