In the past couple of issues, we have focused on the “facts on the ground” and barrier to seeking help in   Afghanistan . Afghanistan is a country that has seen involvement form two superpowers in less than 30 years period. These involvements have given some Afghans to be educated in advanced settings. Thus, there is a strong albeit minute diaspora of elite technocrats and professionals including physicians trained in the western world inside Afghanistan. Although the resources are close to essentially non-existing, the available intellectual “elites” are capable of using whatever at their disposal to provide healthcare needs and educate medical graduates from various medical schools in Afghanistan . This success story is underlined by the fact that a significant number of graduates from Afghan medical school score very high on USMLE exams and enter residencies here in the US and also in the European countries.

In this issue in our usual informal forum, beside our usual topics, we will focus on high tech procedures and introduce some of the methodologies that can be used to carry out in Afghanistan and generate primary data 1. To publish in international journals 2. To improve the quality of education in medical schools in Afghanistan .  

I also want to formally acknowledge my shortcoming in adequate editorial job. With the increasing responsiblities I have been assuming and difficulty of finding qualified individuals to contribute to the journal, the quality and acuracy of the material covered in the journal have a lot of room to improve. I hope to move on from this "one man show" soon.