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Foundations That Don’t Fade

I returned to the Patient Support Corps this past year as a medical student and was reminded that many of the formative lessons that I learned about healthcare in general were ones I learned before my dedicated medical education began — and they have persisted quietly as I continue to progress...
May 5, 2026
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Meeting an Icon

December 10, 2018
Ninad Bhat
Waiting for the Grey shuttle to Mission Bay, I found myself imagining a situation where I might end up talking...
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This Date In UCSF History: Desperately Seeking Diversity

October 29, 2018
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Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF Student Newspaper, Oct. 25, 1979 If the University of California does not greatly...
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Sexual Harassment is Rife in Sciences

October 9, 2018
A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has concluded that a “systemwide change to the...
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Humans of UCSF: Project Partners

May 22, 2018
Frank Chang
We’re both enrolled in a master’s program that is focused on translational medicine, which is the process of converting scientific...
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Humans of UCSF: Imagining the Future

April 29, 2018
Frank Chang
I have always been curious and interested about how new technologies can improve patient care. As a result, after receiving...
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This Date in History: Affirmative action

March 5, 2018
Synapse
[Originally Published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper, March 9, 1978] UCSF is one of the largest employers in...
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Modernizing Science Publishing

January 15, 2018
Nicholas Gentry
The way we communicate academic science today has remained largely unchanged from when the peer-reviewed publishing system was initially developed...
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Med students charge exam policy 'punitive, unfair'

October 9, 2017
[Originally published in Synapse, Volume 27, Number 6, 14 October 1982] Medical students at UCSF who failed part I of...
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From Bench to Bedside

May 22, 2017
Breanna Allen
​What does it take to repair a broken heart? The Biomedical Sciences (BMS) graduate program at UCSF is instilling in...
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