The Changing Face of Medical Education in Egypt; Introducing the First Issue of “The Egyptian Journal of Medical Education”.

From the beginnings of the civilization in the late fourth millennium BC, Egyptian medical practice was highly advanced for its time, including simple surgery, setting of bones, dentistry, and an extensive set of pharmacopoeia. Egyptian medical thought influenced later traditions, including the Greek’s. The modern history of Egyptian medical education begins in 1827, when Kasr Al-Ainy was established as a military teaching hospital in Abu Zaabal, to the northeast of Cairo. The second medical school was established 115 years later, in 1942, at Alexandria; the third, Ain Shams, in 1947, and the fourth, in Assiut, in 1960. Since then, other medical schools have been established, mostly dependent on those first four schools for faculty and curricula.