Kaiser Permanente Northern California San Francisco Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a hybrid university-community OB/GYN program embedded within Kaiser Permanente's integrated health system in San Francisco, combining academic rigor with a large, systems-based clinical operation serving an ethnically and economically diverse population, including patients of economic disadvantage. The program has distinctive strength in complex family planning (Ryan Residency Training Program with four CFP fellows), gender-affirming surgery and medicine (multidisciplinary Adult Gender Pathways clinic, dedicated PGY2 rotation), high-risk obstetrics, and minimally invasive/robotic gynecologic surgery, all reinforced by an extensive simulation and surgical skills curriculum. Research is well-resourced through KP's Division of Research, biostatistical support, and an annual OBGYN resident research symposium, and the program produces graduates who enter comprehensive full-scope practice or subspecialty fellowship, with many assuming leadership roles within and outside Kaiser. The program explicitly values systems-based practice, quality improvement, patient safety culture, and physician well-being, reflecting Kaiser's population-health and team-based care model.