NCHPE has the following objectives:
- Train teachers of health professions in educational methods;
- Promote and institutionalize development of rational academic programmes in undergraduate and postgraduate levels of heatlh science;
- Initiate and maintain continuing education for health professions;
- Promote the planning, implementation and evaluation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in health care and health professions education sectors;
- Conduct research in health professions education and practice;
- Coordinate medical education with national health care services;
- Provide forum for communication and focus of ideas for all those concerned with development of human resources for health (HRH);
- Develop regional and international linkages with other institutions/centres/universities belonging to health professions education