The institute also participates in multiple national and international clinical trials in fields ranging from cardiology to oncology, offering opportunities for graduate and post-doctoral training as well as funding.

[8] Maine Medical Center is owned by MaineHealth, the state's largest healthcare organization.

MaineHealth owns and operates a series of mental, long-term, primary care, emergency, and home healthcare facilities in southern, central, and western Maine.

Other MaineHealth companies include Memorial Hospital (North Conway, New Hampshire), Western Maine Health (Penbay Medical Center & Waldo), Southern Maine Health Care (Biddeford and Sanford), LincolnHealth, Spring Harbor Hospital and HomeHealth-VNSM.

This program allows students from Maine, or those interested in practicing there, to complete the second through fourth year of medical school at MMC in Portland rather than Boston.