Primary Care Pathway | Department of Pediatrics

UCSF Pediatric Primary Care Pathway residents are specially trained in clinic and community-based approaches to child health. They have additional outpatient clinic time throughout residency to improve follow-up and continuity with their patient panel.

In addition, residents have time to develop individual or group primary care projects in areas such as clinic-based quality improvement, medical education, or community-based collaborative approaches to child health. Residents have primary care training time longitudinally throughout residency and additional outpatient experience embedded in their second and third years.

Emily Roth on the Primary Care Pathway

Primary Care Pathway Goals

To gain knowledge and skills in primary care clinic-based approaches to child health
To learn how to access community resources to address local child health problems
To train primary care pediatric residents to collaborate with their community to develop programs that affect local child health issues
To provide mentoring and advising in primary care pediatrics

Clinic-based Training

All primary care residents are based at Mt. Zion Pediatrics for their continuity clinic and urgent care months
Additional continuity clinic time during ambulatory months
Mentoring and practice opportunities from a broad range of academic and community-based primary care physicians