The Continuing Education Committee, Faculty of Pharmacy, has recently provided an exceptional educational opportunity to 13 of its outstanding graduates: the Basic Life Support (BLS) course. 

This course was organized in partnership with the American Heart Association and Alameda’s Dar El Fouad Training Academy.

Designed with the utmost precision, the BLS training stands as a pinnacle of professional development for both Pharm D and Pharm D-Clinical Pharmacy graduates.

The course combined theoretical understanding with intense hands-on training to provide participants with vital life-saving abilities.

Key components of this training encompassed the mastery of critical concepts related to effective resuscitation, the use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED), CPR for adults, children, and infants, rescue breathing for all ages, bag-mask techniques for all ages, and management of choking patients of all ages.

Following practical and theoretical evaluations, AHA certificates were awarded at the end of the course. 

Misr International University is always contributing to developing its students’ futures and careers and keen to develop the quality of education in Egypt. MIU decided to hold a workshop for the Continuing Education entitled “Integrating Targets in Oncology, A perspective on Palliative, and Supportive Care and Beyond” on Saturday 9^th of April, 2016.

Four professors participated in the workshop: Prof. Samy Alsirafy, Professor of Clinical Oncology at Kasr Al-Ainy, Prof. Ebtesam Ahmad, Pharm.D, M.S., St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health, U.S.A, Prof. Abdallah Abo-Taleb, BScPhm, PhD, and Prof. Heba Anise, BScPhm, BCNSP.

A hundred hospital and clinical pharmacists from diverse health institutions in Egypt as well as academics from governmental faculties of pharmacy attended the CE Workshop that was held as a part of the ACPE accredited series of the Continuing Professional Pharmacy Development Program at the MIU Faculty of Pharmacy.

Misr International University’s Faculty of Pharmacy held its 12^th Continuing Education Seminar entitled “New Frontiers in Cancer Care: Evolving therapies, optimizing therapies during care, and survivorship measures” on Wednesday, March 1^st, 2017. The workshop was conducted by renowned professors and around 120 hospital and clinical pharmacists from diverse health institutions in Egypt, as well as academic colleagues from governmental universities. The Continuing Education workshop was held as part of ACPE accredited series of Continuing Professional Pharmacy Development Program at MIU, Faculty of Pharmacy.

The workshop included four important sessions for the development of pharmacy practice in Egypt. The first session was held by Dr. Rowena Schwartz, Pharm.D, BCOP, Associate Professor of Pharmacy, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati, USA, who discussed Optimizing Endocrine Therapy in Cancer: Enhancing Efficacy and Minimizing Toxicities.

The second session was held by Dr. Emad Shash, MBBCh, MSc, MD, Assistant Professor and Deputy Medical Director at National Cancer Institute, Cairo University and he discussed the Immunotherapy Shaping the Future of Cancer Management Landscape: Opportunities & Challenges.

While the third session was conducted by Dr. Schwartz who tackled the Foundations for Patients and Caregivers in Cancer Care: Patient Counseling.

At last, Dr. Ebtesam Ahmed, Pharm.D, M.S. Clinical Associate Professor St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, New York – USA, conducted the fourth session, in which she discussed the Palliative Care Needs of Cancer Survivors.

The Faculty of Pharmacy was visited twice by Dr Hira Shafeeq, Assistant Professor at the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John’s University during Spring 2019 semester. The first visit was from February 25th to March 4th, and the second from April 6th to April 19th,During this time, she gave a lecture to students of the Ministry of Health Egyptian Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacy, as part of the continuing education programme. The lecture covered various topics, including strokes, heart attacks and the role of clinical pharmacists in critical care settings.

Around 75 pharmacists attended the lecture and gave a positive feedback about its importance and the valuable contribution it made to their knowledge about the application of clinical pharmacy in the field of cardiovascular disease.