New Nursing and Pharmacy Partnership Aims to Expand Access to Mental Health Care
The Dyad project will help address the shortage of mental health providers in California and support a team-based approach to clinical medicine.
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UC San Francisco Medical and Nursing Schools, San Francisco VA Health Care System Join National Clinician Scholars Program
UCSF is partnering with the National Clinician Scholars Program, an interdisciplinary research consortium for physicians and nurses, to drive innovation and improvements in health equity and health care.
Eric Topol, MD, Resident Alum: Leveraging Technology to Democratize Health
Cardiologist Eric Topol is turning the medical establishment on its ear with his vision of a democratized health care system driven by patients and empowered by “medicalized” smartphones.
UCSF’s Mini Med School for the Public
Learn what goes on every day in UCSF’s classrooms and labs from the same faculty who are on the front lines, teaching students in the health professions. These courses for the rest of us delve into everything from the science of sleep to the biological basis of back pain to the latest studies on brain plasticity. Attend in person or watch past lectures online.
We Left Our Homes for a Higher Calling
UCSF cancer researcher Hani Goodarzi, who is from Iran, writes about the human impact of the Trump Administration’s travel ban.
Bioethics in the Trenches
The real-life ethical quandaries faced in clinics, classrooms, and labs.
How Do We Make Medicine Moral?
Barbara Koenig, PhD, a leader in bioethics, weighs in on the questions raised by medicine’s ever-evolving technological prowess.
To Address Homelessness Effectively, Clinicians are Learning What It Really Looks Like
To teach future doctors, nurses and pharmacists how they can advocate for systemic changes and how to improve their interactions with individual homeless patients, UCSF provides an elective course each fall.
With Virtual Reality, Dentistry Students Zoom Through 3-D Teeth
The UCSF School of Dentistry is adding virtual and augmented reality for its first-year students.
UCSF Incoming Class 2018: By the Numbers
This fall, UCSF welcomes over 900 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.
Students Share Their Moments from 2018 Back-to-School Season
New and returning students are sharing their back-to-school experiences using the hashtag #UCSFBackToSchool – see what they are up to.
Slideshow: Back to School 2018
Back to School 2018 Learn more about the incoming fall class of students, check out the sights around campus and see about how UCSF is teaching the next generation of health leaders. See more
MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute’s (CHORI) 37th Annual Summer Student Research Program Concludes with Summer Student Symposium
Students who spent their summer doing laboratory and clinical research alongside BCHO doctors and CHORI scientists are presenting their research at a scientific symposium at CHORI on Friday, August 10.
New Inquiry-Based Curriculum Empowers Future Pharmacists to be Catalysts for Change
Built on a foundation of scientific thinking, and one that exposes students to the latest questions in research and patient care, the School of Pharmacy’s new curriculum differentiates UCSF’s PharmD degree program from the growing number of programs nationwide.
Master’s Program in Global Health Celebrates 10 Years of Impact
From its first class in 2008, with just seven students, to the current class of 36, the Institute for Global Health Sciences master’s program has given its students the breadth of tools and skills they need to succeed in global health careers.
