A Message from the Director

Welcome to our residency program’s web page.

The UCSF - San Francisco General Hospital Family Practice Residency Program is an integral part of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine, an independent department within the UCSF School of Medicine chaired by Kevin Grumbach, M.D. Other department-affiliated residency programs include: UCSF Fresno, Natividad Medical Center, and Sutter-Santa Rosa.

Based at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) , our residency program is also part of the Community Health Network of San Francisco (CHN). SFGH is the premier publicly funded hospital in the country; the CHN is a network comprised of publicly funded community health centers that provide care to a diverse population of San Franciscans.

All continuity training sites and the majority of rotation sites in our program are part of the CHN. Our curriculum is guided by residents' experience and provides them with the skills, knowledge, and perspectives necessary for working effectively with individuals and families of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Our primary mission is to prepare family physicians for practice in urban underserved areas, and to improve the representation of ethnic minorities in our profession. We train 13 residents in each of three years, and our graduates number over 300. Many of our alumni currently practice in state and/or federally designated medically underserved communities, and most are in practice in California . A growing number of alumni are involved in teaching and research throughout the U.S.

Our faculty, with important input from residents, has designed many innovative curricula over the years. These continue to shape our residents' training and have often served as models for the training of family physicians throughout the country.

If you are interested in a broad education in family medicine rooted in evidence-based practice and social sciences, if the idealism that brought you to medicine in the first place has survived, and if you are interested in being a force for eliminating the disparities in health care that plague our medical system, come visit our program. You will meet a group of like-minded family physicians who are dedicated to these goals and who would be proud to count you among our colleagues.

Teresa J. Villela, M.D.
Residency Director