UCSF School of Medicine

UCSF School of Medicine

Former name	Toland Medical College
Motto	Fiat lux
Motto in English	Let there be light
Type	Medical school
Established	1864
Parent institution	University of California, San Francisco
Dean	Talmadge E. King Jr.
Academic staff	2,643
Students	1,428
Doctoral students	152
Location	San Francisco , California 37°45′46″N 122°27′29″W / 37.7627°N 122.4581°W / 37.7627; -122.4581
Website	medschool.ucsf.edu

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 in the western United States. U.S. News & World Report ranked the school fifth in research training and fifth in primary care training.^[1][2] Six members of the UCSF faculty have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and five have received the National Medal of Science.^[3]

For fiscal year 2022, UCSF was the second highest recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding and awards amongst all U.S. organizations, with $823.7 million in funding across 1,510 awards.^[4] The school is affiliated with the UCSF Medical Center.

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.

The school has a satellite campus, UCSF Fresno which provides doctors to Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California.