Jobs and Internships 

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Handshake is UCSF’s online career management system that links employers with our community of graduate and professional students and postdoctoral scholars. Through Handshake, your organization can:

• Post jobs and internships directly to UCSF (and all UC) students and trainees in the health sciences, research, and related fields

• Connect with top-tier talent in medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, physical therapy, basic science, social/population science, global health and more

• Manage applications and candidate communication in one convenient platform

All UCSF students and postdoctoral scholars have free access to Handshake, ensuring your postings reach a highly trained, diverse, and mission-driven community.

Using handshake is free and easy! How to get started:

• To Log in/Sign in: https://app.joinhandshake.com/employer_registrations/new

• Have questions? Visit Handshake's support for employers

• Want the video version overview?: To help you get started, you can watch this video created by our sister school UC Berkeley on how to use Handshake

UCSF is proud to partner with employers committed to advancing health, science, and innovation.

What types of position do we usually approve on handshake: 

• Internships: paid, and geared toward post-graduate health and life science fields
• Full-time positions: paid, and geared toward post-graduate health and life science fields
• Temporary positions: paid, duration of position clearly defined, and geared toward post-graduate health and life science fields

What types of positions do we usually not approve?

• Positions targeted to undergraduate populations (we do not have undergraduate programs).  We encourage you to register with handshake and select our sister UCs: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles. Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. 
• Caregiver positions: Our students and scholars seek opportunities related specifically to their sub-field specialties. If you need to fill for a caregiver job, we suggest posting with other institutions within Handshake, as well as LinkedIn, Indeed, Craigslist (free), or by reaching out to specific caregiver agencies in your area.

On Campus Employer Informational sessions 

• If you would like to connect and discuss on-campus opportunities to meet our students and postdoctoral scholars, please reach out to us at [email protected]

On Campus Work Study Positions

On campus work study positions are posted through Student Financial Services .

• Click here to go to the Student Financial Services work study site

Who can you connect with?

School of Dentistry

• DDS (Doctor of Dental Surgery)
• MS/PhD in Oral and Craniofacial Sciences
• Advanced dental residency and specialty certificate programs (Orthodontics, Oral Surgery, Endodontics, etc.)

School of Medicine

• MD (Doctor of Medicine)
• MS/PhD in Biomedical Science fields (e.g., Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genetics, Neuroscience, Developmental Biology)
• MS/PhD in Clinical and Translational Science
• Global Health Sciences (MS, PhD)

School of Nursing

• MS (Master of Science in Nursing)
• PhD (Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing)
• DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice)
• Specialty training programs for Nurse Practitioners, Midwifery, and Clinical Nurse Leaders

School of Pharmacy

• PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy)
• PhD programs in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics

Physical Therapy Program (joint with San Francisco State University)

• DPT (Doctor of Physical Therapy)

Graduate Division

• PhD and MS programs in:
  • Bioengineering (joint with UC Berkeley)
  • Biological and Medical Informatics
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Biophysics
  • Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  • Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
  • Epidemiology and Translational Science
  • Genetics
  • Global Health Sciences
  • Neuroscience
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics
  • Sociology (Medical Sociology focus)