The Society has provided outstanding educational programs of national and international standing for the professionals in the fields of medicine, dentistry, history and the arts.

It has offered a common meeting place for physicians in private practice, hospital staffs, in public health, industry, and the faculty of medical school. It has been the only broadly representative local academic society where the physician is afforded the opportunity to meet and talk at leisure with colleagues in the same or other fields.

The Society provides an excellent medical library of historical significance. It has a book and journal collection dating from the early and middle 19th century with on site access to a rare book collection. It continues to serve the local hospitals and the lay community as well as members, as it has through the years.

The Society sponsors the Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry in conjunction with the Hartford Dental Society. The museum was first dedicated in 1974. Instruments, equipment, furniture and paintings from the long history of medicine and dentistry in Connecticut are preserved in their nationally recognized museum.

The Society has reached out to the community by providing lectures, sponsoring study sections and by preserving the historic treasures of the healing professions in Hartford, making them available to the public.