The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev recently addressed the people of his nation in a speech titled “Socioeconomic Modernization: Our Top Priority for the Development of Kazakhstan.” The address focused on the importance of strengthening scientific research and building a more efficient platform for the government to interact with business and research facilities in a manner that encourages progress in
innovative technologies.
With the explicit goal of lifting Kazakhstan to a level of international leaders in the medical science field, Kazakhstan plans on introducing new technologies to the market, broadening scientific research, defining
federal and regional goals for improving medical science education and research, and investing the proper resources to ensure success. To accomplish these goals, the President has encouraged the scientific community to liaise with the academic community, general population, and even other countries, and conduct open discussions and exchange views, notably through the medium of medical journals. This year, the Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University (KazNMU) celebrates the 85th anniversary. This is a big and important date, which allows to take stock of activities in medical training and academic performance, as well as to identify common issues that need to be discussed from a scientific point of view.
And on the eve of such a significant date, we are pleased to report about the first issue of a new international scientific journal «Central Asian Journal of Medical Science and Education». This journal is aimed to the country’s of Central Asian region, which will raise the problem of medical education and medical science, and to communicate to a wider audience. The journal will be published in English in order to share this knowledge to the world community.
The mission of the journal is to strengthen the brand of KazNMU within scientific and academic community, and engaging to cooperate with talented local and foreign scientists. «CAJMSE» is intended to promote up-to-date knowledge of medical science and education, both in Kazakhstan and abroad. We would like to welcome the first authors who enthusiastically responded to publication of their achievements in our first journal edition. And, of course, we invite researchers and scientists to active cooperation, partnership and peer reviewing of our upcoming publications. Only by joint efforts we will be able to develop common ground in medical education and raise new areas of medical science. Therefore, we invite you to an active discussion on the pages of the journal, and beyond.
