The Division of General Pediatrics specializes in teaching the fundamentals of pediatric care to all pediatric residents and medical students.  Both students and residents spend time working in our various clinics, hospitals and community sites.  We provide a broad clinical education that prepares our graduates for careers in primary care, child advocacy or further specialized training.  In addition, our division faculty coordinate a number of special programs that provide opportunities for more in-depth exposure to areas of interest within general pediatrics.

Vist the UCSF Pediatric Residency Program for more information.

• Medical Student Training
• Resident Training: Primary Care Track
• Resident Training: PLUS
• Rotation at Bayside Pediatrics
• Fellowship Program
• New Programs Under Development

Medical Student Training

The Division faculty play a key role in the core UCSF clinical rotations, as third year students spend six weeks in a core pediatrics rotation.  This clerkship is under the direction of Tim Kelly, MD and Emily Kanaan, MD.  Students rotate in the primary care clinics, nursery, urgent care clinics and pediatrics ward.  

Resident Training: Primary Care Track

Primary Care Pathway

The Primary Care Pathway is available to five residents in the Pediatric Residency Training Program per year. Primary Care Residents learn how to provide superb clinical care to the children of the community through enhanced practice-based training and to collaborate with community organizations to address local child health problems. Residents have extra clinic time devoted to primary care and development of longitudinal community projects. The Primary Care Pathway is under the direction of Emily Roth, MD. Residents are mentored by Primary Care Faculty at the Mt. Zion Practice and by community pediatricians. They graduate with a keen understanding of how pediatricians can contribute to children's health on the individual and community level.

Physician In Society (PIS) Rotation

All of our pediatric residents spend a month learning more about the broader community that influences children's health. The PIS Program is under the direction of Anda Kuo, MD. This rotation utilizes resources in the community and within UCSF to provide residents with a structured learning experience which addresses issues of domestic violence, political advocacy, health policy, and cultural competence. Residents work with leaders from local advocacy organizations and faculty from UCSF's Institute for Health Policy Studies.

Resident Training: PLUS

Pediatric Leaders for the Underserved (PLUS) Program

The vision of the PLUS program is to train and inspire future leaders in pediatrics to identify and address the varied issues that affect the health of underserved children. The PLUS Program is under the direction of Anda Kuo, MD. The PLUS program provides a foundation of skills, knowledge and mentorship from which its graduates will build careers in research, policy and community engagement for underserved children. To create a network of support, the PLUS residents all have continuity clinic based at San Francisco General Hospital and are clustered into advising groups along with senior residents and a faculty member. The training for PLUS is fully integrated with the General Pediatric Residency Program at UCSF to include all components of clinical training to achieve the high standard of clinical care required to practice General Pediatrics.

For more information, please visit the PLUS website.

Rotation at Bayside Pediatrics

Bayside Medical Group is a network of nine private primary care offices, mostly pediatrics, in the San Francisco East Bay. Bayside is well known for its high quality standards, innovative practice techniques, and service to all socio-economic and ethnic sectors of the East Bay.

This rotation will introduce the resident to primary pediatrics in a “real world” setting with mentoring from selected Bayside pediatricians. The program will take place in our offices in Oakland, Berkeley, and Pinole. The heart of the rotation will be the resident seeing patients in the office and presenting selected cases to the faculty preceptor. The resident will also accompany Bayside pediatricians on newborn rounds at Alta Bates Hospital, and occasionally on rounds at Children’s Hospital Oakland.

Residents can receive additional training in organizing for quality care, integrating anticipatory guidance and patient education into practice efficiently, integrating teamwork into practice, coding and billing, and the general approach to management in a practice.

The Director of the Bayside Residency Rotation is Janet Perlman, M.D., M.P.H. The Assistant Director of the Rotation is Michael Linn, M.D., former Chief Resident at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Residents will also have access to Budd N. Shenkin, M.D., M.A.P.A., President of Bayside.

The Rotation can be tailored to the time requirements of the resident. Those interested can find out more about Bayside at baysidemed.com. Inquiries should be emailed to Dr. Perlman at jperlman@berkeley.edu.

Fellowship Program

General Pediatrics Fellowship Program

The General Pediatrics Fellowship Program has been training academic general pediatricians for the last two decades. The fellowship is a two-year training program designed to provide General Pediatrics Fellows with health services, clinical and epidemiologic research training, as well as an overview of child health issues. The goal of the General Pediatrics Fellowship Program is to prepare clinician-researchers and clinician educators for a career in academic pediatrics. The program provides opportunities for research collaboration with mentorship from UCSF faculty, opportunities to present research at regular forums, and opportunities for clinical teaching and care.

For more information, please visit our Fellows' College website

Available for download:

Fellows' College brochure

Fellowship Application Form

New Programs Under Development

Given the ever-changing nature of medicine and healthcare, the General Pediatrics Division encourages innovative educational programs in order to better prepare our residents and students. In that spirit, we are currently developing two new programs. The Complementary Medicine Pathway will allow residents interested in complementary approaches to health an opportunity to work with faculty at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. For those interested in advanced training in hospital-based pediatric care and administrative leadership, our faculty are currently developing a Pediatric Hospitalist Fellowship Program that will develop the clinical training required for being a skilled hospitalist and provide scholarly training in key areas of physician leadership within hospitals and academic medical centers.