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title: "Program Director Introduction at Sutter Health"
description: "The Clerkships Program at California Pacific Medical Center hosts visiting medical students through various opportunities year-round, and has formal teaching affiliations with Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and UCSF School of Medicine."
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1.  [Home](https://www.sutterhealth.org/) /
2.  [Education](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education) /
3.  [Medical School Clerkships](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships) /
4.  [Medical Student Clerkships, San Francisco](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships) /
5.  Program Director Introduction

# Department of Medicine

**Section menu**

-   [Medical Student Clerkships, San Francisco](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships "Medical Student Clerkships, San Francisco")
    -   [Program Director Introduction](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/program-director-introduction "Program Director Introduction")
        
    -   [General Information](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/general-information "General Information")
        
    -   [Available Clerkships](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/available-clerkships "Available Clerkships")
        
    -   [Clerkships Course Descriptions](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/course-descriptions "Clerkships Course Descriptions")
        
    -   [Application Process](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/application-process "Application Process")
        

-   [Medical Student Clerkships, San Francisco](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships "Medical Student Clerkships, San Francisco")
    -   [Program Director Introduction](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/program-director-introduction "Program Director Introduction")
        
    -   [General Information](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/general-information "General Information")
        
    -   [Available Clerkships](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/available-clerkships "Available Clerkships")
        
    -   [Clerkships Course Descriptions](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/course-descriptions "Clerkships Course Descriptions")
        
    -   [Application Process](https://www.sutterhealth.org/education/medical-school-clerkships/cpmc-medical-student-clerkships/application-process "Application Process")
        

Each year several dozen fourth year medical students rotate through California Pacific Medical Center for medicine electives. Our most popular rotations are sub-internships on the medical service, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Gastroenterology and Cardiology.

Students rotating through enjoy many aspects of their time here — the camaraderie of California Pacific house staff, the remarkable spectrum of cases and patients they encounter and learn from, the excellent support staff and nurses, residents’ and interns’ reports, 12:00 pm didactic conferences, the hospital’s central location and excellent views of the city.

Many of our rotating students like the community of California Pacific and the education that it has to offer so much that they choose to return for residency here.

California Pacific Medical Center is a racially and ethnically diverse hospital in one of the nicest neighborhoods in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It boasts busy transplant services (liver, kidney and heart), advanced Interventional Radiology and Cardiology, a major Stroke Center, one of the best hospitalist services on the West Coast, a busy Research Institute, and has bountiful “bread and butter” as well as “zebra” cases.

We hope that you’ll join us for a month. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with Karla A. Magsalin, Student Clerkship Coordinator, Undergraduate Medical Education at [415-600-5202](tel:415-600-5202) or email us at [cpmcstudents@sutterhealth.org](mailto:cpmcstudents@sutterhealth.org) if you have further questions!

**Maggie J. So, MD**  
Program Director, Internal Medical Residency  
California Pacific Medical Center

**Phil W. Kennedy, MD**  
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

**Jennifer Ling, MD**  
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

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