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PISCES Program

Parnassus Integrated Student Clinical Experiences

PISCES is a special clinical training program for 16 UCSF medical students. It is a unique partnership with medical students, patients and faculty to train outstanding, patient-centered doctors. The students are spending an entire year at UCSF Medical Center, including Mount Zion and Lakeshore. They are working one on one with faculty from anesthesia, family and community medicine, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery and urology to learn how to take care of patients.

PowerPoint presentation to explain PISCES for faculty

Powerpoint presentation to explain PISCES for students

Written description for patients

Written description for patients (en espanol)