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UCSF School of Medicine is establishing a ‘branch campus’ at UCSF Fresno to lead a training program preparing students to address health needs of the region's diverse and underserved populations.
With a new project – Rural Health Advanced Practice Training – the UCSF School of Nursing hopes to help fill gaps in health care by encouraging and training advanced practice nurses to work in rural settings.
This UC San Francisco competition challenges PhD students to use engaging “nonspecialist” language to describe their intricate research – in three minutes or less. Bioengineering student Yiqi Cao won the top prize this year for her talk about how to improve stents to reduce scar tissue. “Grad Slam was an incredible opportunity to challenge myself,” Cao says. “It’s definitely not easy to distill … many years of research down to a meaningful three minutes.”
Former department chair Catherine Gilliss, RN, PhD ’83, returned to UCSF last fall as dean, her third deanship at a top U.S. nursing school.
Teens like Anthony Orosco are using their creative juices to change the conversation about Type 2 diabetes, thanks to a partnership between UCSF and arts nonprofit Youth Speaks.
There have been smiles, hugs and flowers during the 2018 commencement season at UC San Francisco. This year, the four professional schools – dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy – and the
UCSF Bioengineering PhD candidate Yiqi Cao took the second-place prize in the annual UC-wide Grad Slam contest.
Nursing leadership at the UCSF School of Nursing and UCSF Health are leading an effort aimed at optimizing the advantages of tighter integration between the two organizations.
The 2018 Grad Slam competition challenged PhD students to use straightforward yet engaging language that non-specialists can understand to describe their intricate research – in three minutes or less.
Match Day, the third Friday in March, is the moment when graduating medical students across the country find out where they will be training as residents.
UCSF’s School of Medicine placed in the top five nationally in this year’s U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate and professional schools. UCSF’s biomedical science PhD programs were among the top 10, and the School of Nursing was also highly ranked.
When Yan Kalika, DMD, MS ’01, arrived in San Francisco in 1989 from the former Soviet republic of Moldova, he didn’t speak English.
UCSF joined eight research universities and a major cancer institute in announcing plans to give would-be life scientists clear, standardized data on graduate school admissions, education and training opportunities, and career prospects.
This fall, UCSF welcomes nearly 1,000 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.
Genetic testing and new gene therapies may raise new questions for patients, and as front-line health workers, nurses could be the ones answering questions about how they related to health. UCSF has created a new course to help give an overview of the emerging topic.
