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CREST Program: Nuts and Bolts of Applying to NP, PA, & MD Programs

Wednesday, January 28 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Add to Calendar 2026-01-28 12:00:00 2026-01-28 13:00:00 CREST Program: Nuts and Bolts of Applying to NP, PA, & MD Programs The CREST Program offers education and mentoring to help HDFCCC staff explore the differences between the roles of nurse practitioner, physician assistant, and MD (Career Exploration Track) and to support their application process (Application Track). All HDFCCC staff are eligible to register, although the Application Track requires you are planning on applying with in one year. You must first register for the entire CREST Program here , and then for each individual event you want to attend. For more information on the CREST tracks and upcoming events, click here. HDFCCC Health Center Staff may use their education hours to attend CREST events. They must be approved in advance by the employee's manager and recorded in MyTime. Upcoming CREST Program Events: Career Panel - MD/PA/NP: October, will repeat next year Characteristics of Successful Applicants - 12/8/25, 4pm - 5:30pm, Register Finding Research Opportunities While Working at UCSF - TBD Nuts & Bolts of the Application Process - 1/28/26, 12-1pm Register CREST Speaker Series, Steve Braunstein, MD/PhD Radiation Oncology - 2/26/26, 12-1pm - See below Register Application Essay Mentoring - February - April 2026 - Apply (limited space) Mock Interviews - August 2026 The Nuts & Bolts of Applying Seminar will have speakers who have recently gone through the NP, PA, and MD application process. Panelists are: Austin Angelidakis is an NP at the UCSF Genitourinary Medical Oncology Clinical. He contributes to research investigating new therapies for genitourinary cancers and is a native of the Bay Area Bella Finney - Current PA student at Samuel Merritt University; Former Medical Assistant in Surgical Urologic Cancer Clinic and Float Medical Assistant in various UCSF Departments Edlimar Delgado is a CRC in the UCSF Hematopoietic Malignancies Program. She recently applied to medical school Open to all HDFCCC staff. If you work in another department at UCSF and still want to join, please email Jennifer Seuferer. Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center [email protected] America/Los_Angeles public

The CREST Program offers education and mentoring to help HDFCCC staff explore the differences between the roles of nurse practitioner, physician assistant, and MD (Career Exploration Track) and to support their application process (Application Track). All HDFCCC staff are eligible to register, although the Application Track requires you are planning on applying with in one year. You must first register for the entire CREST Program here , and then for each individual event you want to attend.

For more information on the CREST tracks and upcoming events, click here. HDFCCC Health Center Staff may use their education hours to attend CREST events. They must be approved in advance by the employee's manager and recorded in MyTime.

Upcoming CREST Program Events:

  • Career Panel - MD/PA/NP: October, will repeat next year
  • Characteristics of Successful Applicants - 12/8/25, 4pm - 5:30pm, Register
  • Finding Research Opportunities While Working at UCSF - TBD
  • Nuts & Bolts of the Application Process - 1/28/26, 12-1pm Register
  • CREST Speaker Series, Steve Braunstein, MD/PhD Radiation Oncology - 2/26/26, 12-1pm - See below Register
  • Application Essay Mentoring - February - April 2026 - Apply (limited space)
  • Mock Interviews - August 2026

The Nuts & Bolts of Applying Seminar will have speakers who have recently gone through the NP, PA, and MD application process. Panelists are:

  • Austin Angelidakis is an NP at the UCSF Genitourinary Medical Oncology Clinical. He contributes to research investigating new therapies for genitourinary cancers and is a native of the Bay Area
  • Bella Finney - Current PA student at Samuel Merritt University; Former Medical Assistant in Surgical Urologic Cancer Clinic and Float Medical Assistant in various UCSF Departments
  • Edlimar Delgado is a CRC in the UCSF Hematopoietic Malignancies Program. She recently applied to medical school

Open to all HDFCCC staff. If you work in another department at UCSF and still want to join, please email Jennifer Seuferer.

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