Visit of Prof.kim critchly, dean of nursing school, prince Edward island university, Canada to faculty of applied medical sciences, October 6 University Prof.kim critchly started a scientific program at the faculty of applied medical sciences on Sunday 13/11/2011 for 2 weeks The scientific program covered all the following aspects 1. Meeting and interactive discussions with all the faculty members and the members of the nursing staff in the hospital 2. Presentation of the nursing system in Canada compared to the system in Egypt. 3. Seminars presented by prof.kim to the nursing students, medical students together with the hospital nursing staff in collaboration with the faculty staff. The seminars are titled as follows: a) Nursing care in fracture hip b) Critical thinking in nursing c) Health assessment d) Nursing care in renal failure e) Nursing care chronic pain f) Professionalism in nursing care g) Inflammatory bowel diseases h) Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases i) Nursing system in prince Edward university nursing school 4. Work shop titled: nursing care of orthopedic patients & management of chronic pain.Participants included nursing staff of the hospital and the hospitals belonging to the community as well as medical students and nursing students.