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Training Program - Career Choices of Recent Graduates

Over the years, UCSF graduates have taken on important leadership roles in the field of medicine on local, national, and international arenas.

 20112010
Academic32
Chief Residency87
Hospitalist714
Other**35
Primary Care84
Research01
Subspecialty
Fellowships
or Other
Cardiology (6)Cardiology (6)
Gastroenterology (4)Gastroenterology (1)
Geriatrics (2) Geriatrics (1)
Hematology/Oncology (4)Hematology/Oncology (2)
HIV/AIDS (2)
Hospice/Palliative Care (4)Hospice/Palliative (2)
Infectious Disease (3)Infectious Disease (2)
Nephrology (1)Nephrology (2)
Other (1)Other (3)
Pulmonary/Critical Care (3)Pulmonary/Critical Care (1)

**Computer order-entry development at UCSF, MPH, Consulting, Industry jobs, public health positions

The following percentages represent career decisions of our graduates over the past two years:

  • 55% fellowship
  • 12% primary care practice
  • 23% hospitalists
  • 10% other (such as research, industry, public policy)

With respect to fellowship training, the following is a list of sites UCSF graduates have attended over the last 4-5 years.

Cardiology: UCSF , Massachusetts General Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, UCLA, Cedars Sinai, Columbia University, Boston University, University of Michigan, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Emory, Washington University, Case Western, UT Southwestern, CDMC, UC Davis

Endocrinology: UCSF, Massachusetts General Hospital, NYU

Geriatrics: UCSF, Brigham and Women's Hospital

GI: UCSF, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, UCSD, University of Washington

General Internal Medicine: UCSF, Johns Hopkins

Hem/Onc: UCSF, Stanford, Dana Farber, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Memorial Sloan Kettering, University of Washington, University of Minnesota, MD Anderson

HIV: UCSF, UCSD

ID: UCSF, Brigham and Women's Hospital, University of Washington, Emory, Johns Hopkins, UCLA

Nephrology: UCSF, Stanford, UT Southwestern, Brigham and Women's Hospital, University of Washington

Occupational/Environmental Medicine: University of Washington

Palliative Care: UCSF, Massachusetts General Hospital

Pulmonary & Critical Care: UCSF, Stanford, University of Colorado, Duke, Oregon Health Sciences

Preventive Medicine: Brigham and Women's Hospital

Rheumatology: UCSF, NYU

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