Northern California HERC

Medical Director for the Fine People's Clinic at ZSFG

Contact: Jonathan Ballard
Academic year 2026 - 2027

Position description: The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)'s Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) is seeking a visionary clinician administrator to join our faculty and lead clinical operations at the Richard Fine People's Clinic (RFPC, formerly known as the General Medicine Clinic or GMC). The candidate will be appointed, depending on experience, as an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Medicine, in either the Health Science, Clinical Professor, or In Residence series. This leadership role is expected to require 50% effort from a clinical faculty member who maintains an active primary care practice and precepts residents in RFPC. Depending on the candidate's interests and preferences, appointments may include up to 4 weeks each year teaching UCSF medical students and house staff on ZSFG's "Resident Inpatient Services (RIS)."

We are seeking a skilled clinician-administrator with prior experience in primary care and clinical operations leadership. Applicants must be board-eligible or board-certified in Internal Medicine and be able to obtain an active California medical license. A commitment to providing high-quality care to the urban underserved is required. Experience working in a safety net setting and with marginalized populations is desired.

RFPC is an academic primary care practice that cares for approximately 8,500 of the City's most medically and socially complex patients, delivering well over 30,000 visits per year. RFPC is a major teaching site for UCSF Internal Medicine residents (categorical and primary care). RFPC patient visits are scheduled Monday-Thursday from 8am to 9pm and on Fridays from 8am to 5pm. RFPC is part of the San Francisco Health Network (SFHN), the city's safety net health system that cares for ~110,000 patients annually in 13 primary care health centers throughout the city. ZSFG is a premier public hospital with a level 1 trauma center that also has a strong research enterprise.

RFPC is a core ambulatory training site for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Program. Twenty-four primary care and approximately 18 categorical residents from the UCSF IM program have their continuity primary care clinic at RFPC and rotate through all of UCSF's excellent teaching hospitals including San Francisco General, the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus, and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. DGIM at ZSFG has approximately 30 faculty members who provide ambulatory care at RFPC; many of our faculty also care for patients on the inpatient wards, teach UCSF medical students, residents, and fellows, conduct innovative health services research, and advocate for health policy changes designed to improve the care of marginalized, underserved, and vulnerable populations.

The Medical Director reports directly to the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) at ZSFG and collaborates closely with the Director of Primary Care for the SFHN, to ensure that RFPC, a core SFHN clinic, meets or exceeds standards set for all SFHN Primary Care clinics. The Medical Director is responsible for clinical operations and clinical quality improvement initiatives designed to maximize the health of our patient population and community.

The Medical Director's roles and responsibilities include:
* Lead RFPC's clinical management team, ensuring effective and efficient collaboration with RFPC's Associate Medical Directors, Nurse manager, Practice Manager, Behavioral Health team, Clerical team, Pharmacists and Nutritionists, with the assistance of a clinic scheduler, and quality improvement analysts.
* Provide clinical supervision and continuing education of RFPC's nurse practitioner staff in partnership with the SF Department of Public Health primary care leadership team.
* Ensure the clinical competency of all RFPC clinicians (including oversight of credentialing procedures and responding to patient grievances or problematic staff interactions)
* Lead quality improvement initiatives to ensure prompt implementation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and meet network and state performance targets to ensure high quality care.
* Collaborate on innovative approaches to advance the health of the population RFPC serves, ensuring that RFPC clinical operations align with initiatives launched by the SFHN primary care leadership team
* Represent RFPC in discussions of network and hospital wide initiatives, ensuring effective collaboration
* Clinical service provision as an RFPC primary care physician, one to two sessions per week
* Precept residents at least one clinic per week at RFPC
* Support clinical training of diverse learners, including medical students and allied health professional training.

A successful candidate will demonstrate:
* Excellent clinical judgement and a commitment to patient-centered care
* Strong dedication to advancing workforce diversity, and a culture of universal respect and inclusion
* Superb communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated flexibility and adaptability
* Excellent problem solving skills and demonstrated effectiveness in de-escalation and managing interpersonal conflict
* Experience and skills in management, leadership, and clinical operations
* Excellence in teaching

Preferred Qualifications include experience in:
* Lean management
* Data-driven clinical quality improvement
* Caring for underserved, marginalized, and vulnerable patients
* Teaching and mentoring diverse learners

Please click here to apply. Applicants' materials must list current and/or pending qualifications upon submission.

For positions that are 51% effort or more:
The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See Table 5. The minimum base salary range for this position is $131,200-$344,400. This position includes membership in the health sciences compensation plan which provides for eligibility for additional compensation.

For positions that are 50% effort or less:
See Table 2 for the salary range for this position. A reasonable estimate for this position is $93,700-$246,000.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

UCSF is committed to welcoming and serving all people, honoring the dignity of every individual without preference or prejudice, in support of its public mission and in alignment with our PRIDE values and Principles of Community.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.
* "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
* UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
* UC Anti-Discrimination Policy
* APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment