Rationale 
  
Over the past two decades there has been a revolution in the way we educate medical students. Medical schools, worldwide, are facing the necessity to modernize their educational programs. The emphasis is now on making medical education more responsive to societal healthcare needs. It is important for medical schools to embrace new ideas in educational strategies within the context of curriculum planning ie. the provision of learning objectives, integration in teaching and the use of interactive learning experiences. 
 
In emerging countries, medical schools are struggling to survive in a severely restrained economic environment. There are no journals that specifically address the particular issues faced by medical schools in these countries. The high subscription rates of existing journals and limited access to publishing, restricts the interaction of medical educators from emerging countries. In addition, Western experiences and research findings published by these journals often have little relevance to the different cultures, medical school structure and resources of emerging countries. 
 
The Meducator is a new quarterly international journal of medical education that hopes to fill this void. 
 

Scope 
 
The Meducator seeks to promote interaction in medical education and serve as a meeting place for the global village of medical educators. It aims to provide an outlet for the opinions, communications, literature reviews, tips and original research papers which have a particular interest to healthcare professionals in emerging countries. The contents will be of interest to learners, teachers and health practitioners with potential to significantly impact the quality of health care. 

The journal welcomes papers on any aspect of medical education: undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education, with special emphasis in education of health professionals and practice of medicine in emerging countries.