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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Is it possible for a health care system to redesign its services to better educate patients to deal with their immediate health issues and also become more savvy consumers of medicine in the long run?
Summer Internships Encourage High School Students to Pursue Careers in Science
<p>Andrea Lopez knows that she could easily be doomed by her demographic: She is 17, Latina and the mother of a baby boy. But UCSF's Science Education & Health Partnership's internship program has helped her prove otherwise.</p>
Violence Prevention Program at SF General Hospital Saves Lives
<p>When Rochelle Dicker, MD, was a UCSF intern, she cared for a 16-year-old boy who had been shot as a result of gang violence. He was eventually discharged, but returned to the emergency room a few weeks later after he was shot again. Today, Dicker directs a program that has proven to save lives.</p>
SFGH Helps Patients Become Financially Fit
Led by UCSF family medicine and pediatric residents as well as financially savvy volunteers, the Financial Fitness Clinic improves people’s health and well-being through financial education.
Scientists Bring Hands-On Fun to Class
UCSF's Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) pairs teachers with UCSF researchers and graduate students to create rich classroom experiences through explorations in biology and chemistry to K-12 students in San Francisco's schools.