First- and Second-Year Electives

The list below documents electives that change from quarter to quarter. This is a partial listing; additional electives may be advertised on separate announcements or offered by other schools. For more information on elective coordination and advertising to other UCSF schools, please see this Elective Coordinators website.

Supervised Study and Laboratory Project Course Offerings: Please see the Registrar's Course Catalog.

Sign up for Electives via your online study list on Registrar's SAA Portal 

MD Competencies referenced in elective listings: 

  • Patient Care (PC)
  • Medical Knowledge (MK)
  • Practice-Based Learning & Improvement (PBLI)
  • Interpersonal & Communication Skills (ICS)
  • Professionalism (Prof)
  • Systems-Based Practice (SBP)
  • Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) - indicated using the IP codes below

Inter-Professional Level of Learning2 referenced in elective listings: Adapted by Dr. Susan Hyde from Reeves S, Lewin S, Espin S, Zwarenstein M (2010) Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care. Blackwell-Wiley, London.

  • Interprofessional Education (I): Members (or students) of two or more health and/or social care professions engage in learning with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the delivery of care.
  • Multiprofessional Education (M): Members (or students) of two or more professions learn alongside one another; in other words, parallel rather than interactive learning.
  • Uniprofessional Education (U): Education that is undertaken by individuals within the same profession.

Spring 2024 (Fall 2024 elective information will be available in August)

Course number: Medicine 170.07
Course title: Communicating with the Latinx Patient

Faculty: L. Seijo
# of units: 1.0
Day, time, & Room Location: Fridays, 12-1pm, Room CS 1102/1103; Dates: April 19 & 26; May 10, 17, 24, 31
Student coordinators: Shepard Blue, Sharlene Shirali, Isaac Avila-Vargas, Nicole Garcia
MD Competencies: MK, ICS
Inter-Professional Level of Learning: M

Course number: Medicine 170.41
Course title: Word on the Wards: Inpatient Health Education at ZSFG

Faculty: K. Han & J. Yao
# of units: 1.0
Day, time, & Room Location: Weds, April 3rd & Thurs, April 18th; 5:30-8:30pm, CS 1113/1114; Dates at ZSFG TBD
Student coordinators: Sandhyarani Gullapalli, Stephanie Hu, Jay Shah, Jenny Tam, Bonnie Xu
MD Competencies: MK, PBLI, PC
Inter-Professional Level of Learning: U

Course number: Medicine 170.43
Course title: HealthLink (open to students in other schools- SOP, SOD, SON, PT)

Faculty: M. Tapia
# of units: 1.0
Day, time, & Room Location: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, HSW-300. Dates: March 2 & 30; May 4 & 18
Student coordinators: Michael Torres Espinosa & Will Li
MD Competencies: MK, PBLI, ICS
Inter-Professional Level of Learning: M

Course number: Medicine 170.52
Course title: Students for a National Health Program: Medicare for All (open to students in other schools- SOP, SOD, SON, PT)

Faculty: J. Khan
# of units: 1.0
Day, time, & Room Location: Mondays from 12:10pm-1pm. Dates: 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 6/3, and 6/10; Room TBD
Student coordinators: Melissa Ma, Daniel Theng, Leon Sarpong, Mahika Nayak
MD Competencies: MK, PBLI
Inter-Professional Level of Learning: M

Course number: Medicine 170.53
Course title: Innovating Healthcare: From Concept to Reality (open to students in other schools- SOP, SOD, SON, PT)

Faculty: L. Klein
# of units: 1.0
Day, time, & Room Location: Every Wednesday, 4-5:30pm from April 3rd to June 5th, Room S-163 (Parnassus)
Student coordinators: Melissa Ma, Daniel Theng, Leon Sarpong, Mahika Nayak
MD Competencies: MK, SBP
Inter-Professional Level of Learning: M