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UCSF

Public health sciences university in San Francisco

Physician Assistant

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
Junior, Mid, Senior
Bachelor's
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryAdvanced Practice Providers

About the job

Requirements
  • Graduation from a Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant.
  • For the Physician Assistant level with fewer than five years of experience as a Physician Assistant, two years of recent orthopedic experience within the last five years is required.
  • For the Physician Assistant Senior level with five or more years of experience as a Physician Assistant, five years in outpatient orthopedic specialties is required.
  • UCSF physician assistants must possess national board certification, California licensure, relevant knowledge, clinical skills, and experience to provide evidence-based patient care in their clinical practice area.
  • Physician assistants must hold an unrestricted California Physician Assistant license.
  • Physician assistants must hold National Board Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
  • A California driver's license is required if required for the position.
  • Physician assistants must hold Drug Enforcement Administration registration for Schedules 2, 2N, 3, 3N, 4, and 5 registered to a California address.
  • Physician assistants must hold American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification.
  • UCSF Medical Center and Campus healthcare providers must be credentialed; credentialing and approval of standardized procedures are typically completed before the first working day and take 60–90 days, though timing may vary.
  • UCSF-hired advanced practice providers whose clinical responsibilities require patient care outside UCSF Medical Center and Clinics must be credentialed and privileged and comply with the applicable facility's bylaws, rules, regulations, and policies.
Responsibilities
  • Provide evidence-based routine, acute, critical, and specialty patient care as defined by granted privileges and standardized procedures.
  • Perform non-invasive or invasive procedures and provide operative first assistance when included in granted privileges and standardized procedures.
  • Exercise only privileges specifically granted by the Committee on Interdisciplinary Practice, Executive Medical Board, and Governance Advisory Council.
  • Provide clinically indicated care that meets the applicable standard of care.
  • For clinical work at facilities outside UCSF Medical Center and Clinics, comply with California regulations and provide clinically indicated care that meets applicable standards of care.
Desired Qualifications
  • Orthopedic inpatient experience in addition to the outpatient orthopedic specialty experience.
  • Five or more years of Physician Assistant experience in orthopedics within the past five years, including independent ambulatory patient encounters across all orthopedic specialties.
  • Experience with inpatient management of orthopedic patients.
  • Ability to perform joint aspirations and injections.
  • Ability to interpret X-ray and MRI images of the shoulders, hips, knees, elbow, wrist, hand, and spine.

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UC San Francisco is a public research university in San Francisco focused solely on health sciences, combining professional education with biomedical research and patient care. Its schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy train clinicians and scientists, while teams investigate cancer, immunology, genomics and neuroscience. UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children's Hospitals connect clinical care with faculty research and training, and university clinics serve patients across Northern California. Founded in 1864, UCSF is the University of California campus dedicated to graduate and professional education and biomedical research, based in San Francisco.

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