International Program

Welcome to the International Program of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El Zalabany - Dean of Faculty of Medicine

My dear students,

It is my pleasure to welcome you in the beginning of the first academic year in your great Faculty "Alexandria Faculty of Medicine". I am glad that you chose this faculty as a beginning of your mission in life, as medicine is not just a career from which one earns his living, but it is also a mission in which the science combines with the exalted human feelings that is not appreciated with money.

I am also glad that you chose the "Alexandria Faculty of Medicine" for your study, as you must have heard that the medicine school in Ancient Alexandria was the first medicine school in the world, in which medicine was practiced on a pure scientific base free from any superstitions or non-scientific practices.

Thus you are privileged than many students of other faculties of medicine for carrying a deep-rooted heritage of the old medicine.

Whe the new scientific renaissance started in Egypt in the beginning of the twentieth century your faculty was the second ancient faculty of medicine, however that doesn't mean that it is less valued, as the graduated doctors of the "Alexandria Faculty of Medicine" have and still own the remarkable positions in the field of medical practicing, medical education and medical scientific research in different places in the world.

So you are welcome in your great faculty, with my best wishes for success in your sacred mission.

Professor Mahmoud El Zalabany
Dean of the Faculty