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University of California, San Francisco

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The University of California 1868 UCSF
The University of California 1868 UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and it is dedicated entirely to health science. It is a major center of medical and biological research and teaching.UCSF was founded as Toland Medical College in 1864, and in 1873 it affiliated itself with the University of California, becoming its Medical Department. In the same year, it incorporated the California College of Pharmacy and in 1881 it established a dentistry school. Its facilities were located in both Berkeley and San Francisco. In 1964, the school gained full administrative independence as a campus of the UC system headed by a chancellor, and in 1970 it gained its current name. Historically based at Parnassus Heights and several other locations throughout the city, UCSF developed a second major campus in the newly redeveloped Mission Bay in the early 2000s. UCSF is considered one of the world's preeminent medical and life sciences universities. According to the U.S. News & World Report, UCSF's medical school is ranked 2nd nationally for its clinical training, its pharmacy school is ranked 2nd nationally, and many of its nursing programs are ranked similarly highly. UCSF attracts the 9th most research funding from the National Institutes of Health, and its research output is ranked in the top 10 in the world in numerous biomedical fields. Despite focusing exclusively on health sciences, UCSF's research output is ranked in the top 20 in the world across all fields. As a healthcare provider, UCSF is ranked 9th nationally, and 1st in neurology and neurosurgery.With 25,398 employees, UCSF is the second-largest public agency employer in the San Francisco Bay Area. UCSF faculty have treated patients and trained residents since 1873 at the San Francisco General Hospital and for over 50 years at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

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UCSF School of Medicine
UCSF School of Medicine

The UCSF School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco and is located at the base of Mount Sutro on the Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland, it is the oldest medical school in California and the western United States, and is consistently ranked among the top medical schools in the United States. The school is affiliated with the UCSF Medical Center, which in 2021-22 U.S. News & World Report ranked as the #3 best hospital in the state of California (behind UCLA Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, which are both located in Los Angeles) and #9 best hospital in the United States. UCSF faculty have treated patients and trained residents since 1873 at the San Francisco General Hospital and for over 50 years at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. UCSF School of Medicine is the top recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding amongst all U.S. public universities and public medical schools, with $601,764,262 of funding. US News & World Report ranks UCSF School of Medicine #4 in research training and #2 in primary care training. The UCSF School of Medicine has seven major sites throughout the San Francisco Bay area, and is composed of 28 academic departments, eight organized research units, and five interdisciplinary research centers. The main site is at the Parnassus Heights campus, which is home to the UCSF Medical Center and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. The UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay opened in 2015 and is home to the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women's Hospital and the UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital.