a) Health Care
To provide excellent orthopaedic care in Ontario.

b) Prevention
To encourage whatever improves musculoskeletal health and discourage that which is deleterious.

c) Standard of Care
To maintain appropriate standards of care through education and peer review.

d) Education
To encourage and support scholarship, academic freedom, and academic achievement in orthopaedic surgery and to continue to educate ourselves, our students, other health care workers and the public.

e) Research
To better understand the function and disorders of the musculoskeletal system and to continually critically evaluate our current treatment and endeavour to improve upon it.

f) Public Service
To support and act as advocates to disabled individuals.

g) Manpower
To monitor and maintain adequate orthopaedic service for the citizens of Ontario.

h) Leadership
To represent Ontario orthopaedic surgeons in maintaining adequate working conditions, reasonable compensation for their labours and a reasonable quality of life.