On Wednesday, December 2, 2020, the annual conference for graduate studies was held under the partonage of Prof. Abeer Zakaria - Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Affairs, Vice President of the Conference, and supervised by Prof. Hanas Hussein- Conference Coordinator, and Dr. Nagwa Ibrahim – General secretary of the Conference. The organization done by Narsawy’s team at the faculty and was coordinated by Ahmed Waheed- the head of the team. The agenda was presented by Dr. Iman Yasser - Assistant Lecturer Critical Care Nursing Department.

The activities of the first virtual conference were held due to what the world is going through from the Corona pandemic, and precautionary measures were taken and the distance was maintained for the participants with a scientific talk or poster who presented in the Faculty conference hall. Under the supervision of the Faculty of Information Technology manager Assist. Prof. Eman Ahmad Fadel.

It is worth mentioning that, more than 400 participants participated in the conference, whether they attended online or participated in a poster or a scientific talk or a research paper from various Egyptian and Arab universities.

One of the most important scientific topics presented in the conference was how to create an electronic file for each student, on which the student carries everything related to him, starting from joining the faculty until he graduates. This topic was attended by Prof. Hala Jabr - Head of the Department of Nursing Administration. In addition, Prof. Hanaa Hussein spoke about the most common mistakes during the presentation of scientific theses and how to avoid them. Furthermore, the fruitful presentation of Prof. Nahid Kandil, Head of Critical Care Nursing Department and Chairman of the Ethics and Scientific Research Committee, on how to make a scientific protocol.

Dr. Najwa El-Fishawy- coordinator of the Postgraduate Studies page, talked about scientific research and how to research through the web of science base, which is provided by the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, and how the base enables the researcher to know the impact factor of the scientific journal before publishing in it and how to arrange and write references in Mandali.

Dr. Eman Ahmed Fadel gave a lecture on global databases and how to participate in them from the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, Research Gate and Google Scholar, and how to download research and scientific theses from different database sources.
Moreover, Dr. Sarah Ali, a lecturer for the health of the elderly from the Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, participated in e-learning strategies. Dr. Ibtisam Hashem, a doctoral student at Mansoura University, participated in a lecture on cupping and the modern perspective of Western medicine and how to use it to treat various health symptoms.

Among the online posts is a participation from Saudi Arabia from Dr. Samah Abdullah Mahmoud Suleiman - an international consultant for breastfeeding medicine, head of nursing and pediatric departments and director of the child-friendly hospital program at Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital. Thus, all the topics of the conference were covered, from integrating modern technologies into interactive education to improve the quality of teaching and learning, building curricula on evidence-based evidence in nursing practices, as well as covering the challenges facing postgraduate students in education and scientific research.

Among the most important recommendations of the conference: activating the electronic file of the graduate student, weighing the skills of graduate students with the skills of research projects, encouraging faculty members to publish in journals with a high impact factor to raise the researcher’s impact factor and raising the classification of Egyptian universities. And also supporting the development of students’ skills in education. In addition, encouraging researchers to do research using evidence and evidence to prove the role of cupping in treating many disease symptoms.