UCSF Medical Center Employer Reviews

I enjoyed working with UCSF. The workplace and employees were great. Really miss it wished it all would have went in a whole different direction.

People are very friendly and so glad to have this opportunity to work there.

Typical day at work:
Check and distribute emails and faxes, Respond to patient, Dr's, and staff emails, answer MyChart calls and assist patients with MyChart subscriptions. Assist patients with password resets, and logging into their accounts. Manage myhealth emails for the practices, and distribute emails to Nurses and Physicians.
Create spreadsheets – more... for practice's and their patients.
Check fax error messages in FaxPro and distribute them to the practice managers.

Received training on UCSF database: Apex (Epic) system

Management and co-workers were really easy to talk to and get along with.

Hardest part of the job was just being in the basement, without windows.

The most enjoyable part of the job was meeting new people and helping them. – less

UCSF is a great place to work and grow in a team oriented and supportive environment.

Busy facility with room for career advancement and learning new technology

Took care of critically ill patients who required mulitple drips, ventilation management, and provided maticulous care.

Excellent learning experience taking care of cardiac and thoracic transplant , ECMO, and LVAD patients. There is no typical day, with multiple tasks assigned throughout the course of the day. The service is often short staffed with multiple ORs running. I enjoy harvesting vein during CABGs, and working with interns and fellows.

There was really no typical day at UCSF. I might come to work and learn we were getting a fresh oral surgery post-op patient; or that we had an islet cell transplant patient who had insulin and heparin drips and would require frequent monitoring. I learned to organize and prioritize my time; to document using electronic charting; and to care for more – more... than one patient at a time. Something I had not done as a nurse practitioner. Nursing management on my unit was exemplary. Fair, discreet, supportive. Even when an error was made it was handled in a way that did not make the employee feel stupid, but rather as a learning experience. My coworkers were great, with a couple of exceptions. Most were patient and willing to teach or to explain without judgment. The hardest part of my job was the need to be supportive of new parents whose full term baby had died. I can still feel the oppressive grief in the room of a young couple. And feeling of helplessness because I could not do anything to assuage their grief. Each day I worked was enjoyable in that I was able to continue working as a nurse, a role I had cherished since first getting my RN degree in 1979. – less

Fast paced working environment and good place to learn. The benefits they offer were great, but very difficult to become vested in the Radiology Department. Enjoyed working with all departments, with the exception of the Radiology Department.

Fast paced working environment and good place to learn. The benefits they offer were great, but very difficult to become vested in the Radiology Department. Enjoyed working with all departments, with the exception of the Radiology Department.

The Director and Manager of the Procurement Department promoting and hiring their favorite people who does not have experience nor knowlegde of the Procurement Environment. For example they promoted a guy who is white (same as the director and manager) to a position that he doesn't have any experience. He started working in UCSF MC on 2009 as a Buyer – more... II and also his background experience is as a Writer. No experience in Purchasing nor Contract at all, but they hired him because its one of the managers friend. And now he got promoted as a Operations Manager on supplies without any experience in supply chain. Now thats a favoriticism. This is a matter of either your are white or black, but apparently only if you are white. – less

Great collaborative work environment on 8/11 Neurosurgical ICU. Extremely supportive and attentive management.

Typical workday will consist of contract administration work:
verification/checklist of all incoming contract requests, communication with both the end users and the vendors, and primarily working on the computer. I have learned tremendously from my fellow colleagues and manager. The most enjoyable part of the job is the constant differences in each – more... contract therefore having to learn about each field/industry relating to the contract in order to competently discuss it with all the stakeholders. – less

A wonderful place to work and see how the medical team and staff care for the quality, care and safety of the patients and their families. You learn so much from every team member who works at UCSF. You are so impressed with those who are trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's and other terminal illnesses.

Working at U.C.S.F. is a robust experience the pace is moderate there are many things you can and will learn, at times you can feel overwhelmed by responsibilities but overall the ecosystem is good.

The only things that stand out in a less glowing way is the nepotism that allows friends and relatives to thrive leaving many proceeding cautiously to – more... avoid stepping on others toes.

The workplace ethnic demographics also represent a biased environment favoring same race employees and this is very polarizing if you are not a member of one of the dominant groups.

Employee training a upside there is much opportunity to grow your knowledge and the pay is fair for sustainability within the SF Bay Area. – less

Fast Paced Environment. Respectful employees as well as patients.

No respect to employees, no priorities for employee for internal hiring process. No parking for employees and public parking is very expensive and can be 5-10 years away on the waiting list.

High acquity patients, high turnover rate. Excellant job to get your feet wet pre critical care unit. New drug research protocols learning. Learning curve high

fairness and equallity of individual member apportunities for few and salary issue.