Our Community

Learn more about our clinic and the patients we serve along with how residents build connection with one another and improve health outside our clinic.

Our Clinic

The General Medicine Clinic at Mt Zion is an integrated faculty-resident practice open to all San Franciscans and cares for a complex, diverse patient population which mirrors the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of San Francisco and the larger Bay Area. As the largest primary care clinic in the UCSF Health network, we care for ~27,000 patients with ten percent of patients having a preferred language other than English and speaking over 48 distinct languages. We accept all insurances (MediCare, MediCal/Medicaid, and private insurance) and the clinic is a level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home.

Our People

Our clinic is composed of a diverse, interprofessional team of medical assistants, nurses, social workers, physicians, nurse practitioners, navigators, and additional clinical staff to provide care for our patients and support for each other. We have community building activities such as lunch walks, basketball at the park next to our clinic, and weekend lunch with kayaking.

Advocacy and Service

Faculty, residents, and staff on our team are deeply dedicated to health equity and advocacy. Residents engage in an experiential advocacy project with the guidance of a DGIM faculty member including community-based site visits (to create harm reduction kits for the San Francisco community at GLIDE, for example), coaching sessions on being an effective physician advocate, and application of advocacy by meetings with legislators on local, state-wide, and national levels to effect change.

Well-Being

Cultivating resident well-being is core to our community. We support our residents through facilitated supported spaces (resident-developed reflection and resilience-building groups), yearly day-long retreats, one-on-one advising, and regular informal get-togethers to connect with our community to celebrate successes, (re)kindle joy in practice, process the challenges of training, and have fun!