PRIME-US

The UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program offers the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US) in conjunction with the UCSF School of Medicine. PRIME-US is a curricular track for students who evidence a strong interest in caring for urban medically underserved populations in our community.

The medical education experience for these students equips and supports them to devote their careers to improving the health of the urban underserved through leadership roles as community-engaged clinicians, educators, researchers, and social policy advocates. In addition to and coordinated with the JMP medical curriculum, the PRIME-US curriculum includes:

• Biweekly seminars on community-based experiences. For example, experts on homelessness, immigrant health, Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US) the prison system, health care disparities and more will come to speak and share their work.
• An immersion clinical experience, for the full duration of their medical school training, at a community site focused on providing care for underserved populations.
• Master’s thesis work related to health care and social advocacy for the urban underserved in our community.
• Strong academic and social support provided by dedicated staff and faculty to ensure personal,
  professional and academic success.
• Clinical clerkships (following matriculation to UCSF and joining with the PRIME-US students there) with rotations in underserved communities, including San Francisco General Hospital and the Fresno campus of UCSF.