Figure 4: Centre for Professional Development users by the college in 2012-2013. Remark: The percentage of trained staff from the faculty of medicine dropped to 15.80% constituting only 20.58% of the total number of staff attending Centre for Professional Development activities in 2012. The radiography participation dropped as well to 28.48% trained staff which was 15.11% of the total trained university staff. On the other side, the dental faculty participation rose to 17.68% training 33.33% of their staff. A similar rise was observed with the pharmacology, forming 24.76% of the faculty staff trained resulting in training of 36.67% of their staff members. The medical laboratory technology trained staff rose from 38.00% to 52%. The rising number of staff in nursing and physiotherapy may explain the rise in their attendance to 6.75% and 1.25%, respectively. In both years, the participation of academic staff from administrative sciences was weak. While this may be explained by the nonrelevance of the activities to their practice, their attendance was no better in activities focusing on teaching and research methodology