• UCSF
• SFSU
• Dept of PT & Rehab Science
• UCSF Physical Therapy Faculty Practice
• Health & Wellness Center

University of California San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco shares the University’s mission of achieving excellence in education, research, and public service. As a graduate campus devoted solely to the health sciences, its purposes and goals are unique. UCSF aims to be among the leading academic health sciences institutions in the world, highly respected for the quality and scope of its scientific activities, educational programs and patient care. One of the primary functions of each of the schools at UCSF is the education of the next generation of health care practitioners. Each school seeks to prepare individuals who are leaders, well-versed in scientific fundamentals, technically proficient and socially sensitive, and who can assume leadership positions in the professions. UCSF reaffirms its primary goal to maintain and improve the quality of its educational opportunities, research programs, and services to the community.

San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University is a multipurpose institution of higher education located in a large and diverse urban setting. Excellence in teaching is the University’s primary mission and distinguishing feature, although a commitment to research and service to the community are high priorities. The University is committed to providing a general education for all students while at the same time meeting their special interests; to formulating new curricular models as part of continuing experiment in innovative instruction; to imparting knowledge through imaginative teaching and excellence in scholarship and research.
The mission of SFSU is:

1. to create and maintain an environment for learning that promotes respect for and appreciation of scholarship, freedom, human diversity and the cultural mosaic of the City of San Francisco and the Bay Area
2. to promote excellence in instruction and intellectual accomplishment
3. to provide broadly accessible higher education for residents of the region and state, as well as the nation and the world.

Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science

The Mission of the UCSF Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science is to educate scholarly, socially sensitive clinicians, educators and researchers in physical therapy and rehabilitation science who will lead the profession of physical therapy into the next century. The graduates will be prepared to practice independently or as part of a team within an environment of health care that is not only patient focused, but directed towards building the scientific base of clinical practice, the quality, accessibility, availability, and efficiency. The mission of this Department is to develop dynamic, creative, efficient, sensitive educational opportunities for entry and graduate level students in physical therapy, contribute to the scientific evidence base of physical therapy practice, provide high quality efficient rehabilitation services to clients, and assume an active role in the development of the physical therapy profession within the community at UCSF and SFSU, California and across the United States.

UCSF Physical Therapy Faculty Practice

Our mission is embodied in our expert practitioners providing both referral and direct access patient care services based on scientific evidence, modeling clinical education and inquiry for the future.
Our vision is that we will be the most respected physical therapy clinic in San Francisco, recognized for:

1. the quality of our care
2. the cost effectiveness of our care
3. our sensitivity to patient's needs
4. our integration of current scientific information

Health & Wellness Center

Our mission is to promote health and wellness for healthy individuals and those with impairments through physical therapy consultation, injury screening and group education & exercise classes.