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Introduction: Vaccination is a successful method of controlling infectiousviral diseases, which may play a major role in virus spread limitation.Aimof Work: To assess the concerns of Egyptian physicians towards COVID-19vaccines and its associating factors. Materials and Methods: A crosssectionalstudy was conducted on 1026 Egyptian physicians; through a selfadministeredquestionnaire covering socio-demographic data and physicianconcerns toward COVID-19 vaccine was used. Results: Among 1026 studiedphysicians (their age ranged from 25 to 57 years, with a mean of 39.46±10.17),58.7% were male and 56.8% were from an urban residence. More than halfof physicians (56.9%) worked at a secondary care level and 21.7% of themworked at a tertiary care level, 48.8% of participants were specialists and19.3% were consultants. The mean duration of work experience was 12.94±7.54 and ranged from 2 – 25 years. Nearly half of the participants (49.8%)had COVID 19 disease before. Most of the studied physicians (74.9%) did notattend COVID-19 vaccine awareness campaigns. Binary logistic regressionanalysis showed that the significant independent predictors of high concernscore were working in a COVID-19 isolation unit, work experience more than10 years, history of COVID 19 infection, and attending vaccine awarenesscampaigns (odds ratio, 3.15, 2.0, 2.88 & 3.5 respectively). Conclusion:Healthcare workers’ concern score toward COVID-19 vaccine is of primeimportance as it drives them to accept or refuse to take the vaccine and HCWswere considered as a confident source of health information and advice to thepublic. The modifiable factor that improves vaccine concern was attendingCOVID-19 awareness campaigns about COVID-19 vaccine, so continuing andincreasing awareness campaigns about COVID 19 vaccine is warranted.

Introduction: Little attention was paid to explore the prevalence of neck and upper limb pain among gynecologists particularly those who perform laparoscopic procedures.Aim of work: To assess the frequency of pain in the neck and upper limbs among gynecologists working at Menoufia governorate in Egypt and to explore common risk factors. Materials and methods: A pre-designed questionnaire was sent to 642 gynecologists who worked at Menoufia governorate in Egypt; 583 were returned (90.8%). Descriptive and analytical statistical analyses were performed to assess the frequency of pain in neck and upper limb and to detect their risk factors. Results: Among 583 gynecologists, 293 (50.3%) were male and 290 (49.7%) were females; age ranged from 27 to 60 years old, out of them 315 (54.03%) experienced neck and/or upper limb pain. Most of the affected participants experience pain 1-2 times/week (80.6%), received medical treatment for pain (92.7%), applied for sick leave 1-2 times/month (77.1%) and taught that attaining certain posture while operating is the main cause of their pain (73.3%). Age above 45 years (odd’s ratio 1.45), clinical practice over 15 years, laparoscopic procedures (odd’s ratio 1.88), more than ten operations per week (odd’s ratio 2.78) and operations took more than one hour (odd’s ratio 2.10) increase the risk for developing neck and/or upper limb pain. Conclusion: This study revealed that neck and/or upper limb pain is common among gynecologic laparoscopists. Adoption of ergonomic posture and decreasing working hours when performing laparoscopic procedures may help to minimize the risk of a work-related pain. Future research should explore the implementation of ergonomic guidelines and correlation with subsequent improvement of outcome.