education@pcrj: the launch of a new initiative for the PCRJ

The PCRJ has two declared aims in the context of primary care respiratory medicine: firstly, to be an ‘authoritative setting for the publication of high quality internationally-relevant research’; and secondly, to ‘inform and educate healthcare professionals worldwide of the research and service developments’ in this field. This issue sees the launch of a new section in the Journal, education@pcrj, which will significantly promote the second of these two aims. As newly appointed Section Editors, we are delighted to accept the challenge laid down by the Editors-in-Chief, and look forward to delivering this core component of the PCRJ's editorial strategy. Our aim is to ‘satisfy the needs of “grass roots” primary care clinicians in implementing and applying research findings in practice’