Education
School of Nursing professors Elizabeth Gatewood and Matt Tierney collaborated with Scott Steiger at the School of Medicine to develop a course fast-tracking the process for health care professionals to treat patients battling addiction.
UCSF’s thoughtful attention to attracting and meeting the needs of first-generation students who advance to graduate education in the health sciences has garnered national recognition.
UCSF has joined a small team of health care leaders that comprise the National Clinician Scholars Program. The program trains clinicians to be change agents who can drive policy-relevant research and partnerships to improve health and health care.
California is experiencing a growing shortage of mental health providers. The UCSF schools of nursing and pharmacy may just have part of the solution.
Elizabeth Gatewood, director of the School’s Family Nurse Practitioner program, shares her vision for the program’s future, which emphasizes empowering faculty to educate a new generation of learners.
The 2018 UCSF School of Nursing Outstanding Master’s Student of the Year travels to Malawi and works with nurse-midwives there and Partners in Health to help standardize and improve childbirth practices in the African country.
The School’s new Rural Health Advanced Practice Training program and rural health minor train nurse practitioners and preceptors to confront the challenges of providing care in some of California’s most underserved areas.
The dean of the UCSF School of Nursing and the vice president/chief nursing officer at UCSF Health shape an innovative model for working together that benefits both organizations.
An interprofessional education project puts midwifery students and obstetrician residents together for clinical experiences aimed at breaking down barriers to collaborative practice.
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