Medical Education: Back to the Future

As you read this editorial, I can almost hear you asking ? yet another medical journal ? pray why? We have medical journals of all hues ? catering to all segments of medical professionals ? from the rookie to the expert and from the generalist to the ultra subspecialist. Though we have plenty of medical journals published from our country, unfortunately many of them just do not make the grade. What would I expect from this new journal? I fondly hope that ‘The Health Agenda’ would prove to be meaningfully different and eventually become a publication that promotes quality medical education and medical ethics apart from it’s stated purpose of medical research. I trust that it will include these vital aspects of education and ethics ? for surely there cannot be a significant one without the other! I would also like to add medical history to it’s domains, because this is what gives each one of us a perspective in the timeline of our profession and helps us to humble ourselves when professional arrogance creeps in. This editorial looks at present day medical education in the country with cynically tinted glasses and thereby posing the oxymoronic phrase in the title as a possible solution.