Goals The University of California operates 15 health science schools and offers advanced professional degrees in medicine, nursing, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine and public health. The University also operates five medical centers at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Together, UC's health sciences professional training programs and its associated hospitals constitute the fourth largest health care delivery system in California. Between UC's health science training programs, direct patient care activities, health research and contracts and grants, about half of the University's operations are health-related.
UC's health sciences and services programs have the following goals:
- educate and train the next generation of healthcare professionals;
- conduct research to improve health care and advance life-saving technologies; and
- provide high-quality care to the people of California.
Measures The measures in the following pages focus on the five UC medical centers and the patient care they provide. These metrics are standard performance indicators used by the health care industry to measure the amount of inpatient and outpatient services provided and the complexity of illnesses treated.
A number of other relevant indicators are located elsewhere in this report. Indicators about the University's health care professional education programs are contained in Section 6, which focuses on graduate and professional students. Health science faculty awards are contained in Section 7. Rankings of top medical schools in research and primary care are in Section 9. Information on health science research expenditures and development activities are in Section 12.
Additional information about the Division of Health Sciences and Services at the Office of the President is available online at http://www.ucop.edu/hss. The Final Report of the Advisory Council on Future Growth in Health Professions (pdf) provides information about health science enrollment planning. Future accountability reports will provide a fuller description of the broad sweep of the University's activities in health sciences and services.