During his visit to the French capital, Paris, Prof. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, met with Professor Philippe Ruszniewski, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Paris City University. The meeting was attended by Prof. Shahira Samir, Executive Director of the International Relations and Academic Collaboration Sector at Ain Shams University, and Prof. Alaa Al-Ghunaimi, Professor and Head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Robert Dubre Hospital.

The meeting came within the framework of Ain Shams University’s efforts to establish a program to study medicine in the French language, where the two sides discussed the necessary steps to establish a French medicine program at Ain Shams University, promising opportunities and challenges.

All the capabilities of the Faculty of Medicine, at Ain Shams University, including equipment, faculty staff, and students studying in French schools or speaking French, were also reviewed.

Ain Shams University’s keenness to establish a medicine program in the French language comes because of France’s leadership in the field of medicine in the world and its expertise, which contributes to the improvement of the medical education system in the Arab Republic of Egypt, which is reflected in the future on the development of the comprehensive health care system in Egypt and it is in line with Egypt’s vision 2030.

It is scheduled to complete the talks between the two sides in an upcoming visit by the French side to Ain Shams University.