Medical and healthcare institutions in universities are important component parts of social medicare resource

and the function orientation is particularly important due to specificity of its functions.This paper gives a new interpretation of basic tasks of medical and healthcare institutions in universities by illustrating practice and development in university hospitals

and it considers that tasks of medical institutions in universities mainly include public health and basic medical service.Public health service focuses on prevention and control of infectious diseases

health intervention and health education and the like.Basic medical service includes diagnosis and treatment of common diseases

supply of expert outpatient

establishment of patient transferring system in tertiary hospitals and creation of characteristic special subject and emergency service within the campus.This paper has discussions and practice according to its function orientation and tasks in an useful way

and it also puts forward some development thoughts in the future.