The aim of undergraduate medical education in Myanmar is to produce a primary doctor viz, a doctor of a basic undifferentiated type:

a.       Who has acquired such reasonable degree of knowledge and skill of the medical sciences that he may safely be entrusted with the care of patient and the health of the community, especially in dealing with common diseases and community health problems prevalent in Myanmar,

b.      Who is capable of self-education and of being further trained, if required, in any special field of medicine,

c.      Who, having a scholastic outlook, is orientated towards the promotive, preventive and social aspects of medicine,

d.      Whose professional attitudes and ethics are consonant with those of the community that he will be called upon to serve.

The aim of postgraduate medical education is:

a.       to provide continuing medical education of an advanced level.

b.      to produce personnel with specialized knowledge and skill of an advanced level for the health services and for teaching and research in the medical sciences.

c.      to encourage continuous self education, to foster a spirit of inquiry and research into medical problems, and to provide the means and
the intellectual environment where in such inquiry and research may be better undertaken.