The University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova, by its faculties and study specializations in License, Master and PhD, represents an academic institution where the educational component is predominant, but where the scientific research must also gain dimensions and substance, there existing the strong certainty of balance between the two components on an average term.

At the same time, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova must become the pivot of medical assistance, both as far as the methodology is concerned and also regarding specialized practice activities, within the historical region of Oltenia.