1. VA Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women's Health

The VA Advanced Fellowship in Women's Health is a two-year research fellowship in women's health sponsored by the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The overarching goal of the fellowship is to provide focused, structured, mentored research training for individuals across diverse disciplines who are committed to becoming leaders in investigating health issues of women and to pursuing a career in women's health. Research focuses improving the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of relevant women's health issues. Click here to apply.

2. VA Quality Scholars Fellowship Program

The San Francisco VA Quality Scholars program is a 2-year post-graduate Fellowship for physicians, nurses, psychologists, and pharmacist who are interested in a career in research, quality improvement, or VA leadership. Along with structured courses in quality improvement methodologies, VAQS Fellows can earn a Master’s in Clinical Research from UCSF or receive further training in Implementation Science. VAQS Fellows are closely mentored during the fellowship and provide access to local research and operations leaders. The VAQS program is highly malleable and can be built around individual interests and career goals. Click here to apply.

3. VA Mental Illness Research and Education Fellowships

The MIRECC fellowship program trains psychologists, MDs, and other allied health professionals to become leading clinical researchers in high priority areas of mental health. Over the course of the two-year program, fellows are trained in academic and health systems research, advanced clinical care service delivery, and program administration in an interdisciplinary setting. The fellowship combines individual mentored research and clinical training with state-of-the-art educational experiences.

4. VA Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research Fellowship

The Advanced Fellowship in Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research provides two years of formal training and mentoring in educational scholarship with a focus on projects within the San Francisco VA. The goal of the fellowship program is to develop expert physicians, nurses, and associated health fellows who advance healthcare education through practice, inquiry, and improvement, with a special focus on program evaluation and educational research.

5. UCSF/VA National Clinical Scholars Program

Committed to equity, the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) aims to train the next generation of health and healthcare change agents, prepared to work in diverse settings to achieve our goals of a healthier and more equitable world. Based at UCSF’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, the NCSP at UCSF is a partnership between UCSF’s Schools of Medicine and Nursing and the San Francisco VA. Scholars train in a closely-knit cohort, receive mentorship from faculty from different disciplines, and build their skills in community partnered research, implementation and dissemination sciences, policy, and health system transformation. Click here to apply.

6. UCSF Health Policy Fellowship

Health policy research investigates how social factors, financing systems, organizational processes, and personal behaviors affect access to health care, the quality and cost of health care, and quantity and quality of life. UCSF Health Policy fellows seek to study and optimize the end results of healthcare in terms of benefits to the patient and society. Results are used to inform the decisions of legislative bodies that oversee healthcare, as well as financial bodies (governments, insurers, employers) who seek to minimize cost and waste while ensuring the provision of an acceptable level of care. Patients are key participants in designing health policy research, both in deciding what questions are most relevant to their care, and as members of the public who ultimately pay for medical services.

7. UCSF Clinical Research Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowship

Healthcare informatics involves the implementation and evaluation of information systems used in healthcare. Such systems include electronic health records, decision-support tools, artificial intelligence applications, the health information exchange standards such as Health Level 7 (HL 7) and Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FIHR), medical terminologies such as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT), and portable medical devices used for the collection of health data.