Fellowship & Training Programs

UCSF is a major research institution with an international reputation for the quality of its clinical and basic research training programs. These programs include a broad spectrum of research programs that offer extraordinary research opportunities for trainees. Approximately 350 post-doctoral trainees begin fellowships at UCSF each year, equally divided between basic and clinical training programs. The UCSF SCOR investigators are actively involved in the following training programs.

CLINICAL

Clinical Research Training Programs Overview

UCSF received a NIH K-30 award in 1998 to advance clinical training curricula. The Training in Clinical Research Program is a comprehensive curriculum and mentoring structure that supports a Master of Clinical Research degree at UCSF for selected trainees who wish to complete intensive training and pursue careers in clinical research.

UCSF Women's Health Clinical Research Center Fellowship

Eligible fellows are physicians who have completed an approved residency. Fellows participate in numerous tasks, such as completing didactic courses in research methods and biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF and conducting clinical research under the direction of experienced faculty mentors. The overall goal of the WHCRC program is to train fellows who will become outstanding faculty dedicated to research in women’s health.

In addition, the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences offers fellowships in all subspecialties including Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Reproductive Endocrinology, and Gynecologic Oncology.

Junior Faculty Training

UCSF has received NIH funding for two junior faculty development programs: the Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Program and the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Program. Both are designed to train faculty in clinical research methods and support them until they have become independent researchers. Each program provides 75% salary support for 2-3 years of training. Both programs are housed in the Women's Health Clinical Research Center, allowing scholars to benefit from the expertise of senior investigators and from access to a variety of rich data sets that are housed at the Center.

BASIC

Urological Research Training Program
The main goal of this program is to provide clinical and basic biomedical research training to urologists and PhD scientists that are interested in genitourinary (GU) diseases. The ongoing need for training academic urologists and PhD scientists derives from the current inadequate understanding of GU diseases. The training of highly qualified urologists and PhD scientists to pursue contemporary research relevant to diseases of the GU system is an investment that is essential to the nation's current and future health care needs. Our training program, which currently includes one fellow, will develop scientists who can meet this medical challenge.

In addition, the UCSF Urology Department has eleven postdoctoral fellows working in genitourinary cancer: two exploring growth factors/impotence in rat models, one working with bladder acellular matrix grafts and three researching embryology and the development of male/female genitalia.