The Parnassus Campus is the center of medical student life at UCSF. Students take pre-clinical courses in the Medical Sciences Building and the Health Sciences Instruction and Research buildings. The Kalmanovitz Library and the Millberry Student Union, with fitness center and bookstore, are here as well.

The Mission Bay Campus is a new 43-acre campus just south of downtown San Francisco that offers a state-of-the-art life sciences center for teaching, research, and health. Top-notch research facilities, a campus community center (complete with fitness center, pub, and student services center), and a housing complex are all part of the first phase of development of the Mission Bay campus.

Clinical Training Sites

The UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Children’s Hospital (Moffitt-Long), the Ambulatory Care Center, and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are also on the Parnassus Campus, offering students a wealth of clinical training experiences. Our full list of teaching sites includes more than 15 locations.

Students also fan out across the city to do their clinical rotations at several other hospitals, including:

UCSF Mount Zion Medical Center, established in 1887 as a voluntary, non-profit hospital to render “medical and surgical aid and service to the needy and distressed sick of the community…without regard to race or creed.” The Mount Zion Medical Center merged with UCSF in 1990, creating the UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center. Today, Mount Zion serves as a major acute care facility in the heart of San Francisco with referrals from all of Northern California.

San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, a 580-bed acute care hospital and medical center owned by the City and County of San Francisco and operated in partnership with UCSF. UCSF faculty are the SFGH professional staff who deliver high-quality patient care, training and research in what is widely regarded as one of the nation's finest public hospitals.

San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, a 252-bed facility that has been recognized as a model tertiary referral center in the Veterans Affairs system. Its research program is the largest in the VA system, with an exceptional number of widely recognized investigators. Its training programs have been highly successful in producing both clinicians and academic scientists of the highest caliber.