Virtual Tours for Resident Applicants

Crown Jewels. UCSF's residents are prized and respected for their training, experience and opportunities that are carefully designed by a program based on the core values of Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence. The Department of Surgery community shares their earnest and fond experiences of teaching and nurturing the next generation of surgeons and leaders.

The Department of Surgery addresses the challenges of applying for a residency program considering the limitations posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and community safety. Faculty, residents and staff share UCSF's response and optimized adaptations to patient care and its academic curriculum.

An applicant's burning question is whether they are an ideal candidate. This is easily answered by wizened and enthusiastic insights from our faculty and staff on why you don't just "fit", but instead, belong at General Surgery's residency program here at UCSF.

Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, Excellence are UCSF's core values that each staff, learner and faculty emulate every day not just towards patients but to one another and the whole community. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has and always been more than a priority but a culture, lifestlye and legacy of the institution. 

There is a lot that we see and learn when visiting places outside of our homes and comfort zone. This year with COVID-19 posing varied impacts on every aspect of our modern society, traveling to see if a city is somewhere you can live in for more than five years has been limited. UCSF staff, faculty and residents share their stories, hobbies and favorite nook and crannies of San Francisco.