Frontiers for Excellence

Abstract

It is a pleasure and a privilege to have the honour to be a part of this issue of QIJMHS. It has always been the priority of QUIP and the Medical Faculty, in particular, to encourage and support staff to enhance the research activities in the university. We need to instill a research culture and the production of this journal is a testimony to this. The faculty of medicine targets by 2020 almost 90% of the preclinical staffs will hold a PhD qualification. This will surpass the national target of 60%. With the expansion of the faculties to include new programs, this will see an increasing trend in research activities.