University of California San Francisco School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

UCSF's integrated vascular surgery residency is an academic, research-intensive five-year program explicitly built to train future leaders in academic vascular surgery, embedded within one of the nation's top NIH-funded surgical departments. Clinical training spans four distinct sites—UCSF's quaternary academic center with high-complexity aortic and hybrid work, the SFVA, the Level I trauma safety-net ZSFG, and Kaiser's regional cardiovascular referral center—giving residents exposure ranging from complex tertiary/quaternary disease to community-pattern vascular pathology and trauma. Two funded years of dedicated academic development time between the third and fourth clinical years, often used for NIH-funded research or an advanced degree, anchor the program's identity, with residents having won competitive AHA postdoctoral awards. The program selects a single resident per year directly out of medical school, valuing candidates positioned for a rigorous, research-embedded academic surgical career rather than community-based practice.