The Department of Medicine is committed to three equally valued and interrelated missions: delivering quality patient care, educating physicians in accordance with highest professional standards, and generating knowledge from research that will alleviate human suffering through the prevention and treatment of disease. We hope to achieve our missions while conducting ourselves and our business as professionals and with respect for our patients and colleagues.

The Department of Medicine is the largest of the 26 academic departments of the UCSF School of Medicine (~28 percent of the full-time faculty). We are composed of 41 divisions that provide comprehensive medical services at five institutions of great distinction and diversity: UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, the San Francisco General Hospital, the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research. We currently have more than 500 full-time faculty, 805 volunteer clinical faculty, 194 residents, 210 fellows and 1,500 employees.

Among the Department's faculty are: seven members of the National Academy of Sciences, 20 members of the Institute of Medicine, 44 members of the Association of American Physicians, 76 members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and four Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. More than 60 of our physicians are counted among America's best doctors.

We have developed a national reputation for excellence in residency training, particularly, in primary care, general internal medicine and numerous medical subspecialties.

Over the last decade, the Department has ranked at or near the top among all departments of medicine in research dollars granted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Including all sources, we currently receive more than 700 grants, fellowships and contracts totaling more than $200 million. Our continued accomplishments in this highly competitive arena attest to the quality and significance of the research performed by our basic and clinical scientists. Important for this success is the research environment at UCSF, which, along with its collaborative culture, affords virtually unlimited opportunities for interdisciplinary research and education.

Given our dedicated and gifted faculty and staff; commitment to excellence in patient care, education and research; and collaborative environment, we believe that the UCSF Department of Medicine will long continue its role as a leader in academic medicine. We invite you to get to know us better. Please contact us for additional information about our Department.

Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD
Chair, Department of Medicine