UCSF Health General Medical Service

Sarah Apgar, MD
Medical Director of UCSF Health General Medical Service

Ethel Wu, MD
Assistant Medical Director of UCSF Health General Medical Service

The UCSF Health General Medical Service is the direct care medicine service at the UCSF Parnassus campus. Medicine patients admitted to this service are cared for by attending hospitalists without the involvement of resident trainees or medical students. 

The General Medical Service began in April 2014 and has grown steadily since then and now provides care to approximately half of medicine patients admitted at the Parnassus campus. Providers on the service accept new patients each morning that are admitted the prior afternoon and evening by the swing and night teams. Individual team census is capped at 10 patients per team and providers do not admit new patients during the day.  

General attendings care for medicine patients in both acute care and transitional care (step-down) units at Parnassus. There is no distinction between patients cared for on the General Medical Service versus the Medicine Teaching Service. 

Faculty on the service lead the clinical care plan, guide the diagnostic process and engage collaboratively with consultants for their patients. The General Medical Service is intentionally structured to allow hospitalists to provide outstanding patient care, while focusing on quality, safety and equity. The service is dedicated to innovating in direct care hospital medicine to ensure an exceptional experience for both faculty and patients.  

Questions about the UCSF Health General Medical Service can be directed to Sarah Apgar at [email protected] and Ethel Wu at [email protected].