The University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, through its faculties and specializations of bachelor, master and doctoral studies, is an academic institution in which the educational component is predominant, but in which scientific research must gain in size and substance, with the definite prospect of balancing the two components in the medium term.

At the same time, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova must become the pivot of health care, both methodologically and in terms of practical specialist activities, in the historical region of Oltenia.

Actively informing, raising awareness and increasing the active involvement of the academic body, students and the administrative apparatus of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova in the implementation of national strategies for the development of higher education, in achieving the objectives of the Bologna Declaration, adopted in 1999, including by Romania, and the declarations of subsequent European high-level educational meetings (Prague - 2001, Berlin - 2003, Bergen - 2005, Lisbon).