University of California San Francisco Program

Program Identity & Fit

UCSF Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is a flagship academic residency built around four major clinical sites—including the quaternary Parnassus/Mission Bay complexes and the Zuckerberg San Francisco General trauma center—giving residents breadth across pediatric, oncologic, transplant, cardiac, obstetric, and acute trauma anesthesia, plus heavy non-OR anesthesia exposure (cath lab, interventional radiology, MRI). Research is structurally central: the department runs a dedicated five-year AIRR physician-scientist track with 24 months of protected research time, shorter ARRISE options for CA2-3 residents, an NIH T32 postdoctoral pipeline, and five GME "Pathways to Discovery" tracks (Global Health, Health Equity, Health Professions Education, Health Systems Leadership, Clinical Research). The program explicitly values academic productivity, faculty mentorship, and pipeline-building for underrepresented trainees (via Berkeley/Kaiser undergraduate research partnerships), and it graduates a substantial line of NIH- and FAER-funded independent investigators. Career orientation leans toward academic anesthesiology and subspecialty fellowship training, though the four-site model also builds broad clinical competency for those pursuing fellowship-independent community careers.