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UC San Francisco ranked at the top in a national evaluation of residency training programs by the online physician network Doximity and U.S. News & World Report.
A total of 15 UCSF programs ranked in the top 10, including three that topped the list.
A resident consults with George Sawaya, MD, a professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, in the women's health clinic at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Photo by Susan Merrell
Doximity ranked 3,691 residency programs across the country, based on a survey of its physician network (view methodology).
UCSF’s residency training programs ranked No. 1 in anesthesiology, neurological surgery and radiology; No, 2 in dermatology, obstetrics & gynecology and neurology; No. 3 in internal medicine; No. 4 in radiation oncology; and No. 5 in surgery and urology.
UCSF residency training programs were also ranked in the top 10 in family practice, pathology, pediatrics, plastic surgery (integrated) and psychiatry.
UCSF’s Associate Dean for Graduate and Continuing Medical Education, Bobby Baron, MD, said that while the survey methodology wasn’t scientific, it reflects just how good UCSF’s training programs are.
“Our residency programs are, in fact, very strong,” he said.
“Measuring success by almost any outcome, including accreditation data, resident match results, resident and faculty surveys, opportunities to care for a terrific population of patients, faculty quality, careers of our graduates, or by reputation of student deans and program directors would place our programs in the very top tier.”
1. University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
2. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
3. Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)
1. New York University School of Medicine (New York)
2. University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
3. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
1. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
2. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
3. University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
3. (tied) Brigham and Women's Hospital Program (Boston)
1. University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
2. St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix)
3. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
1. Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
2. University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
3. UPMC Medical Education (Pittsburgh)
1. University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco)
2. Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Boston)
3. Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium (St. Louis)