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Developed for UCSF medical students interested in learning about the specialty of anesthesia, the AIG helps keep you informed and in contact with the Department. A wide range of resources and activities are designed for those seriously considering anesthesia as a career as well as those just curious about the specialty.

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APAMSA @ UCSF seeks to be a cornerstone in the conversation about Asian-American identity and physicianship, and what it means to understand and address the needs of both the Asian & Pacific Islander (API) community and all communities of color. As API health professionals, we challenge and examine the responsibilities we have towards advocating for and promoting the health of our own communities, while also educating ourselves on the role we play in the broader fight against racial injustice. APAMSA seeks to celebrate our diverse cultures while also working in solidarity and building relationships with other POC organizations on campus (SMNA, LMSA, WC4BL) and locally. We aim to build a soulful, loving community that highlights our unique collective experiences, and provide a space to discuss and explore these meaningful topics.

The Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (APAMSA) is a national organization of medical and pre-medical students committed to addressing the unique health challenges of Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) communities. APAMSA serves as a forum for student leaders to engage these health issues and develop initiatives and projects addressing those needs. The local, regional, and national activities of APAMSA aim to promote the health of the APIA community and help healthcare workers understand how to care for APIA patients in a culturally sensitive manner. Finally, APAMSA provides an important venue for medical students to meet, exchange experiences, and develop personally and professionally through leadership and service.

APAMSA’s foundation was laid in 1993 by Asian American students worried about the present and future of the APIA community. Dr. B Li co- founded the e-mail bulletin board ‘AAMSnet’ for Asian American medical students in 1994 and co-formed the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association in 1995.

APAMSA was formed because issues of APIA health were largely ignored by existing organizations. Since its initial formation in 1995, APAMSA chapters have formed at schools across the country to improve the health and well-being of the APIA community and promote understanding of the unique challenges Asian Pacific Americans face in medicine.

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Sling Health is a student-run group that facilitates biomedical design and entrepreneurship on campus. This incubator brings together student teams from various backgrounds to address medical issues and improve healthcare. Teams are made up of health focused students, such as medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy, and graduate students to bring their expertise to the problems facing healthcare today. Our four objectives for what students will attain as a part of Sling Health at the Bay Area are as follows:
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1. To learn about medical entrepreneurship in a multidisciplinary context, with engineering, medical business, and legal perspectives, while gaining team leadership and technical experience.
2. To join a fast-growing national network that has produced many prototypes, patents, and startups.
3. To work with other bright students and faculty on a problem of interest with the supporting resources.
4. Develop novel devices and software applications targeting unmet clinical needs.

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Even with efforts to increase the number of minority ethnic groups in science and medicine, the proportion of black men pursuing and obtaining degrees in these fields has reached a historic low. In 1986, 57% of black medical school graduates were men — but by 2015 that number had dropped to just 35%, even as the total number of black graduates in all fields had increased.1 By providing opportunities for networking, community-building, and mentorship, Black Men in Medicine at UCSF strives to dismantle the barriers that have perpetuated the dearth of black men in the field and act as a resource for those currently pursuing careers in medicine to find success.

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Brain Camp @ UCSF is a free, immersive, week-long experience for underserved high school students in San Francisco, led by UCSF medical students and faculty. We will explore the fascinating anatomy of the brain, delve into the complex interplay between mind and behavior, and host college prep workshops, all at UCSF. The Camp also features many hands-on activities including suturing, brain dissections, performing the basic neuro exam, and much more!

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The Brain Interest Group is aimed at orienting medical students to careers in brain-related fields, including Neurology, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, and their subspecialties.

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Bridging Admissions is a medical school application service geared towards supporting underrepresented minorities and first generation college students applying to medical school. The goal of this organization is to provide free mentorship and a centralized source of information in order to increase the representation of future physicians who are committed to providing healthcare to currently underserved communities.

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The mission of Critical Care Interest Group is to offer students a chance to explore the field of Critical Care Medicine.

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The purpose of the Dermatology Access Group (DAG) is to create a bridge between San Francisco shelters and the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFGH). Although a small number of shelter residents are able to receive adequate dermatologic care, the majority of residents face significant obstacles to proper assessment and treatment such as lack of information and education of shelter providers for referrals, dismissal of dermatologic complications as insignificant, and individual hesitancy and mistrust of larger healthcare systems.
Having worked in the Dermatology Shelter Clinic for the past year, the dermatology residents and I found that there was a significant disconnect between shelter residents and ZSFGH. Furthermore, providers were unable to provide adequate care to dermatologic complications due to inherent limitations of a clinic such as limited workforce and treatment options. As creation of two parallel systems of care would be ineffective and counterproductive, we seek to integrate patients more expediently into the existing medical system at ZSFGH.
Throughout the year, we identified that a major barrier to proper dermatology care is shelter providers’ lack of information, knowledge and time to refer dermatologic concerns to the ZSFGH dermatology department. After discussion, the various dermatology attendings, medical residents and medical school coordinators deemed that it was necessary to initiate a separate student organization to provide shelters with liaisons to train and assist shelter providers in connecting residents with dermatology complaints to ZSFGH.
In doing so, we hope to reduce these significant obstacles in accessing care that have only worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic for shelter residents experiencing serious, clinically consequential dermatologic illnesses.

Mission: The Dermatology Access Group seeks to address healthcare disparities of unhoused populations of San Francisco by providing education and assistance to San Francisco shelters that will connect residents with dermatologic needs to ZSFGH in order to promote equitable care. In the future, we will also seek to promote access to healthcare through community partnerships with farmworkers and other community organizations.

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The Dermatology Interest Group at UCSF (DIG) is dedicated to connecting dermatology-interested health professional students to information and experiences that will help them learn more about the specialty. With this core mission, DIG also aims to work with the dermatology community at UCSF to support programs that engage and serve the public. Finally, DIG provides a community for health professional students to share a common interest in dermatology.

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We are an open group for all UCSF students with disabilities and chronic illnesses, as well as their allies. We aim to provide a space for students with disabilities to share their stories. We also strive to confront ableism and increase awareness of disability in the UCSF community.

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The Do No Harm Coalition represents over 300 University of California San Francisco physicians, nurses, students, and staff committed to ending racism and state sanctioned violence.

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he UCSF Emergency Medicine Interest Group (EMIG) is a student-run group that promotes and explores the field of Emergency Medicine. 
The goal of EMIG is to promote awareness of all aspects of Emergency Medicine and to provide educational opportunities for medical, nursing, pharmacy, and physical therapy students interested in Emergency Medicine.  EMIG organizes an introduction to emergency medicine elective, a procedure workshop, an annual EMIG symposium, a wilderness medicine elective, outreach programs to the community, and a speaker series with experts in emergency medicine.  Events are open to students of all schools at UCSF. 

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The Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) stimulates interest in family medicine and helps students discover their passion for primary care. We promote family medicine as a career path, encourage interest in community outreach and research, and help connect medical students with faculty and trainees in the Family and Community Medicine Department. We also publicize state and national opportunities for students interested in Family Medicine.

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To bring together medical students that share a common goal to reduce the global cancer burden through innovation, education, and collaboration.

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The Global Health Interest Group (GHIG) is a UCSF interdisciplinary organization, composed of medical, nursing, dental, and pharmacy students interested in the field of global health. The goal of GHIG is create a space for students to come together to plan and participate in events which might include informational sessions on global health summer projects, a meet and greet with UCSF faculty involved in global health, potlucks with guest speakers involved in global health. GHIG is also a great opportunity to make new friendships, collaborations, and career networks.

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To educate, inspire, and unite students through engagement and mentorship in global surgery, including anesthesia & OB/GYN.

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The Health Policy Interest Group’s mission is to provide a regular and active forum for students interested in health policy as well as opportunities to learn about pressing policy issues; engage with relevant physicians, researchers, and other stakeholders; and participate in the creation of health policy.

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Our mission is to help trans and cis incarcerated women better understand their bodies and learn about health-related subjects that are important to them. We have developed several 60-90-minute workshops that meet once a week at the San Francisco County Jail. Our curriculum involves anatomy models and diagrams (hands-on learning), games (jeopardy and family feud), and teach-backs (providing the opportunity for women to teach one another and take ownership of the material). This volunteer opportunity is currently on hold due to Covid-19, but will hopefully resume when the jail is again open to visitors. We hope to build the advocacy arm of our group in its stead as we await re-opening, working on behalf of women currently and formerly incarcerated by way of political action.

During the fall quarter, we also lead an inter-professional elective (1.0 credits P/F). The Health, Policing, and Incarceration Elective brings together students from the UCSF health professional schools to learn about the intersections of health, healthcare, and the prison-industrial complex (PIC). Students will learn about the effects of police violence and incarceration on physical, mental, and community health; the landscape of healthcare access within U.S. carceral facilities; and the specific implications of the prison-industrial complex for particular communities. The elective will cover the intersections of these issues with other health-related topics such as reproductive justice, mental health, substance use, LGBTQ+ health, and immigration. Each week, various speakers—including formerly incarcerated people, healthcare professionals, researchers, and community organizers—will share their experiences and expertise with the class with the opportunity for questions and discussion.

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The mission of the Human Rights Cooperative is to provide forensic documentation of the physical and psychological manifestations of torture and ill-treatment experienced by individuals applying for asylum in the United States.

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Immunology Interest Group (IgG) is an organization for all UCSF medical students interested in Immunology. IgG seeks to host events, including lunch talks, where students can learn about immunology across different contexts from multiple specialists.

The mission of IgG is three-fold:
- Facilitate and foster interest in immunology across medical students.
- Provide leadership and mentors to medical students interested in pursuing Immunology clinically or scientifically.
- Provide guidance for research opportunities in Immunology.

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The purpose of the Internal Medicine Interest Group is to help first- and second-year medical students at UCSF explore the field of internal medicine and its subspecialties, and connect students with mentors (both among older medical students and physicians) who can help them develop their career interests.

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The Latinx Medical Student Association seeks to recruit and support individuals in the healthcare professions who will strive to improve the access and delivery of healthcare to Latinx and medically undeserved populations. The LMSA chapter at UCSF seeks to promote this mission as well as to provide a network of support to its member medical students.

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The Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group (LMIG) has a mission of equipping and empowering physicians-in-training with the practical knowledge and concrete skills to explore preventive care, alternative therapies, and lifestyle interventions and how these may be used in our own lives and in patient care. Domains of lifestyle medicine can include nutrition, exercise, sleep, healthy relationships, stress management, and reducing or eliminating dependence on substances.

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Medical Students for Choice is dedicated to ensuring that everyone has access to the full range of reproductive healthcare choices. MSFC recognizes that one of the greatest obstacles to safe and legal abortion is the absence of trained providers. As medical students and residents, we work to make reproductive health care, including abortion, a part of standard medical education and residency training.

More specifically, these are our goals:
-to bolster MSFC's grassroots network of support and activism
-to reform medical school curricula and residency programs to include reproductive health and abortion care

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Medicine for Migration is a coalition of UCSF students in the schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and physical therapy that take direct action, advocate and build relationships for local communities impacted by border imperialism to forge justice, promote equity and reclaim our shared humanity in order to dismantle xenophobic systems and structural racism.

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Medicine in Motion at UCSF is a chapter of the international non-profit organization, Medicine in Motion. The organization seeks to promote fitness to decrease burn-out among medical professional students and faculty, to create community based on shared interests, and to foster philanthropic efforts through fundraising efforts targeted at local and national non-profit organizations.

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The Middle Eastern Student Association at UCSF is an organization that serves to celebrate Middle Eastern culture and serves as a network for students and faculty.

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MSS is an inclusive community dedicated to inspiring, supporting, and promoting women surgeons so they can thrive at all stages of their careers. We are comprised of committees spanning numerous areas, work together seamlessly to promote wellness of members, provide mentorship across all levels of training from medical student to junior faculty, and to conduct research on issues that hamper progress towards gender parity and greater diversity in surgery.

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The mission of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Interest Group is to:
1. Facilitate and foster interest in women's health, pregnancy, and birth among medical students
2. Provide leadership and mentors to medical students interested in pursuing Ob/Gyn as a career
3. Provide guidance for research opportunities in Ob/Gyn

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