Objectives of the Institute

  1. Produce health manpower of high quality and sufficient quantity to meet the national demand.
  2. Maintain and improve skills and competencies of health personnel through continuing education.
  3. Innovate and design methodology that will facilitate continuing education of medical personnel .
  4. Inculcate constructive attitudes and promote the habit of self learning among the medical personnel.
  5. Promote the use of available resources and appropriate technology with regard to post graduate education.
  6. Inculcate the concept of using health care team approach in solving health problems.
  7. Evaluate medical education programmes in order to obtain information with regard to flaws and pointers to improvements.
  8. Arrange in-service programmes where preventive and curative care and nursing care are well integrated.
  9. Develop collaboration with institutions abroad in order to promote developments of high standards of post graduate medical education in Sri Lanka.