Objectives

• Train medical doctors who practice patient-centered medical care including health promotion and disease prevention.

• Develop medical doctors who are conversant with Ethiopia‘s health policies and community health needs, thereby rendering proactive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services for diseases of local importance.

• Cultivate the next generation of medical doctors with the habits and skills of lifelong learning.

• Produce medical doctors equipped with the ability to conduct medical research, diagnose community health problems, search for causes, design solutions and involve all stakeholders including the community at large.

• Develop future medical doctors with leadership, teaching and communication skills.

• Equip medical doctors with a strong foundation in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral, social, epidemiological and cognitive sciences.

• Produce professionals that nurture the attitudes, values and ethics of medical professionalism and the commitment to service.