The MUHS is an umbrella institute of all the medical colleges in Maharashtra. Its aim is to ensure proper and systematic instruction, teaching, training and research in modern medicine and the Indian system of medicine in Maharashtra, and to have balanced growth in the medical sciences. There are 40 medical colleges affiliated with MUHS.

In addition to teaching how to treat patients, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) will incorporate ethics as a part of the MBBS syllabus in the upcoming academic year (2015-16). The university has allotted marks to exam questions on the subject, which students will learn in the first semester. As part of the ethics module, pupils will learn values and principles of medical-related ethical issues, opinion on social policy, maintenance of physician records, patient-physician relationship, professional rights and responsibilities,…