Curriculum

We have built our curriculum around our mission, and we empower our graduates to practice in whatever setting they desire (clinics, emergency departments, labor and delivery suites, and hospitals/ICUs), in urban, rural, and global health settings, while championing health equity in under-resourced communities. Notable aspects of our curriculum that help achieve those goals include:

• Extensive acute-care training, with more rotations devoted to obstetrics, emergency care, and hospital medicine (including ICU) than is required by ACGME. Our program’s obstetrics training exceeds the ACGME description of a family medicine program with a “high-volume” of obstetrics.
• The registrar model of inpatient training, in which residents work 1:1 with an attending physician (rather than in a team structure). This promotes not only improved learning but also increased resident responsibility from day 1.
• Recognition as a RHEDI program, demonstrating our commitment to abortion and sexual and reproductive health training.
• Family medicine clinic training done in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
• A ratio of preceptors to residents in clinic that exceeds ACGME requirements. This promotes excellence in outpatient clinical training.
• A robust series of didactics, to complement the superb hands-on clinical training.
• Advanced training in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Many of our graduates are nationally recognized practitioners and teachers of POCUS.
• A global health track, with opportunities in R2 and R3 years to do away rotations. Many of our graduates then pursue our global health fellowship and then do global health work.
• A commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism.
• Inpatient, emergency department, and urgent care pediatric training at the nationally renowned UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. 
• Training in addiction medicine (across the full spectrum of care), street medicine, HIV care, hepatitis C treatment, gender-affirming care, a wide scope of inpatient and outpatient procedures and much more.
• An extensive and growing list of elective options (acute care, ambulatory care, and away).