The Clinical Center of Montenegro (CCM) is a health care institution encompassing a hospital with more than 750 beds, a medical scientific and research center, and a teaching base for clinical subjects at the Faculty of Medicine. Therefore, although they work together, some of the team members from Montenegro are employed by the University of Montenegro (UM) Faculty of Medicine, and some of by the Clinical Center of Montenegro.

CCM as a health care institution: CCM is the only medical institution in Montenegro that provides health services at the tertiary level of health care. As a reference institution of the Montenegrin health care system, the CCM conducts consultative specialist and sub-specialist health services and diagnostic and treatment procedures, specialized laboratory diagnostics, and diagnosing of genetics and immune system disorders. For that reason, the entire population of Montenegro gravitates toward the CCM. This unique set up offers an excellent starting point for clinical and translational research, whose results could impact the entire population of one country.