Former name | Toland Medical College |
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Motto | |
Motto in English | Let there be light |
Type | Medical school |
Established | 1864 |
Parent institution | University of California, San Francisco |
Dean | Talmadge E. King Jr. |
Academic staff | 2,643 |
Students | 1,428 |
152 | |
Location | , 37°45′46″N 122°27′29″W / 37.7627°N 122.4581°W |
Website | medschool |
The UCSF School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco and is located at the base of Mount Sutro on the Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland, it is the oldest medical school in California and in the western United States.
For fiscal year 2022, UCSF was the second highest recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding and awards amongst all U.S. organizations, with $823.7 million in funding across 1,510 awards.[1] The school is affiliated with the UCSF Medical Center.
The UCSF School of Medicine has seven major sites throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and is composed of 28 academic departments, eight organized research units, and five interdisciplinary research centers. The main site is at the Parnassus Heights campus, which is home to the UCSF Medical Center and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. The UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay opened in 2015 and is home to the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women's Hospital and the UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital.
The school has a satellite campus, UCSF Fresno which provides doctors to Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California.