The mission of the Student National Medical Association is:

• To create an atmosphere wherein professional excellence and moral principals can find the fullest expression.
• To promote the dissemination of information relative to minority issues in the field of medical education.
• To take the necessary and proper steps to eradicate practices in the field of health profession education that compromises the goal of providing quality education to minorities and women.
• To promote the development of workable programs of legislative policies for the provision of enhanced access to better health care.
• To promote the sponsorship of programs for minority youth to encourage their entrance into the health professions.
• To promote increases in the levels of minority student recruitment, admissions, and retention in schools training health professionals.
• To encourage and promote the development of minority faculty in order to increase the presence of minority mentors and biomedical researchers in academic health centers.