Paving the way for academic medicine.

The current executive body of Nepal Medical Association (NMA) has realized the need of having an editorial board with experts in the fi eld of scientifi c writing and critical appraisal. Accordingly, Journal of Nepal Medical Association (JNMA) has formed a new editorial board. It will uplift the quality of journal and its contents in terms of authenticity and reliability. All of the editors have been chosen according to their accomplishment in the scientifi c community. The voices have already been raised about the need of proper management of journal to provide articles of international standard.1-3 Due to the change in NMA executive body every two year, chief editor used to have a lateral entry in the JNMA. But this trend has been abolished with the appointment of current chief editor. With increasing knowledge about the editorial ethics and policy, publishing house and scientifi c research, the job of an editor has become more specialized than before.