In collaboration with University Community Service Committee, Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) and Clarivate Analytics, a workshop entitled “Research Assessment for Universities Rankings Pusposes” was held on the 7^th of December 2018.
The workshop was conducted by Consultancy Services and Client Education (MENA team) represented by Ph.D. Walid Hassan, Ph.D. Ayman Akil, and Amine Triki. It focused on finding and accessing scientific research, identifying key opinion leaders, authoring research and collaboration, as well as professional services. Faculty members and teaching assistants from all faculties attended the workshop.
The instructor was rated excellent by 22.2% of the participants and very good by 77.8%.

قامت الجامعة بتنظيم الملتقى التعليمي الأول على مدار يومين (22 و 23 ابريل 2019). شهد الملتقى حضور مكثف من أعضاء هيئة التدريس و الهيئة المعاونة من جميع الكليات. شملت ندوات اليوم الأول استعراض لطرق تطوير البرامج الأكاديمية و المقررات الدراسية للتتوائم مع المتطلبات العالمية و احتياجات سوق العمل. خلال اليوم الثاني عقدت ندوات نوعية حيث عقدت ندوات للقطاع الطبى و العلوم الانسانية و أخرى للعلوم الهندسية و الحاسبات. استعرضت هذه الندوات طرق التعلم و التعليم و التقييم الحديثة و خاصة التعلم باستخدام وسائل التكنولوجيا المختلفة مثل تطبيقات الهواتف الذكية و التعلم باستخدام وسائل التواصل الاجتماعى.

On Sunday 10^th December 2017, Professor Kevin Kinser – Department Head, Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University conducted a workshop entitled “Quality, Innovation and International Rankings: Defining World Class Universities in Egypt”. The workshop was held in collaboration with the American Embassy in Cairo under the umbrella of Community Service Sector at MIU. The aim of the workshop was to elaborate on the new realities of higher education, world class universities, internationalization, Quality Assurance in higher education, innovations in higher education and international university ranking. Deans, vice deans and staff members representing all faculties participated in the workshop. Two attendees evaluated the course as excellent, 8 attendees evaluated it as very good while two evaluated it as good.  Only two attendees rated it as fair and the recommendation was to focus on the methods that should be applied by MIU so as to appear on the international ranking list.

The MIU Community Service and Environmental Affairs Sector organized a staff development workshop on Sunday the 13^th of May, 2018 entitled “Research Ethics Principles and Applications”. It was conducted by Dr. Isabelle Nakhla, Research Scientist, NAMRU-3 and consultant of MIU-IRB Committee. The aim of the workshop was to train potential new IRB members to comprehend the history of research ethics and the origin of the international regulations, understand the principles of research ethics and their applications, including informed consent process, confidentiality and risks and benefits of research. Additionally, the workshop shed light on the composition, roles and procedures of an IRB, and how to review a protocol for ethical considerations.

The attendees were teaching assistants and faculty members from Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine as well as Faculty of Pharmacy. The instructor was rated excellent by 90% and Very Good by 10% of the attendees. The workshop was rated excellent by (50%) of the participants, very good by 40% and good by 10%. The attendees’  recommendations included introducing the workshop to all staff members and having other workshops emphasizing the ethical guidelines in animal and human research.

In celebration of WHO’s Global Annual Campaign for hand hygiene, the MIU Community Service and Environmental Affairs sector in collaboration with the Infection Control Department at the Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine – MIU, organized Hand Hygiene Awareness Campaign on Monday the 14^th of May 2018.  The target audience was the University staff, administrators, personnel, students as well as patients of the MIU Dental Clinics. The campaign included lectures, PowerPoint presentations, videos as well as distribution of educational materials  and hand sanitizers.

The campaign was held in two venues: Dental Clinics Complex Seminar room for patients’ awareness sessions, and on-campus Diversey-sponsored booth for all University personnel. It  was rated excellent by 80%, very good by 16% and good by 4% of the attendees. The recommendations included  launching more campaigns, providing more educational materials and conducting the campaign outside the university.