Human Medicine
The Medical Faculty, by emphasis on Community Medicine and Molecular Medicine, imparts skills and knowledge which make doctors capable of both a scientific viewpoint and a method of practise in prevention, diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation which is orientated to the needs of the regional population. As part of this, interdisciplinary integration with other health facilities is considered particularly important. Students are trained for an interdisciplinary and problem-orientated style of medical practise.

Basic aims in teaching are the training of students as doctors and dentists as well as the introduction of medical competence into the courses of other faculties. Further to this, the Faculty is home to research and the promotion of the next generation of academics, particularly in highly specialised areas of research. It is intended that, through the early introduction of this next generation to the foundations of Community Medicine, high performance research in Medicine will also orientate itself to the conditions of a socio-economic framework.

Dentistry
The teaching of Dentistry is considered a part of medical training. The study offered ranges from prevention to restoration. Although certification from the 1950s still placed dentists in a separate discipline, it has in the last ten years been possible to reform the course in Greifswald in line with this basic principle. Considerable impulses for integrated treatment in the clinical semesters without departmental divisions, early patient contact and the course of Preventative Dentistry in the pre-clinical sector, as well as the more dentistry-related organisation of the pre-clinic, have spread outwards from Greifswald and have attracted much attention in the State region. The central theme of the Faculty, 'Community Medicine', can be found as a major, population-orientated principle in the teaching of Dentistry as a whole. The Centre for Tooth, Mouth and Jaw Treatment has in this a feature making it distinctive in Germany.

Research
The profile-building at Greifswald University's Medical Faculty is accompanied and promoted by the NBL-Programme, announced in 1993 by the Federal Ministry for Training and Research (BMBF). From the first period of promotion, during which hypertonia and diabetes existed as two diseases of high prevalence in the population, the research emphasis on Community Medicine in the NBL2-Programme was, on the recommendation of the Scientific Counsel, made into the profile's defining feature. At the focal point of this plan is the regional study on Vorpommern. Today, in addition to the research combination of Community Medicine/Dentistry, the Medical Faculty possesses those of Molecular Medicine (with the central focuses of Experimental Therapy and Cardiovascular Medicine) and Neuroscience. A research focus on Oncology is also being set up.