Bay Area Core
This Bay Area transportation system is loved, hated, and somehow always late.
What is the BART?
This Bay Area medical school originally had its training hospitals in Pac Heights - San Francisco.
What is Stanford School of Medicine?
Which institution has the largest MSTP program?
Washington University in St. Louis
This medical drama follows ER doctors in Chicago and aired for 15 seasons.
What is ER?
The fog in San Francisco is affectionately given this human name.
What is Karl?
This “school” was founded in 1864 as Toland Medical College.
What is UCSF?
This institution recinded all of its MSTP acceptances in 2024.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
This medical drama launched in 2005 and somehow still airs new episodes.
What is Greys Anatomy?
The phrase “Silicon Valley” originally referred to this industry.
What is a semiconductor?
This NIH grant mechanism is often treated as the moment a Bay Area scientist becomes ‘independent.’ Faculty at this institution have the most of these.
What is UCSF?
This MSTP announced to their accepted students a cap on enrolled students during the first day of their revisit.
What is Tri-Institutional?
This show is often cited by physicians as the most emotionally realistic depiction of hospital life.
What is The Pitt?
This federal agency’s Cold War funding helped seed Bay Area basic science.
What is DARPA?
In 1911, leaders from UCSF and Stanford met to discuss an outright merger of what components of their institutions.
What is their Medical Schools?
This U.S. medical school launched the nation’s oldest continuously operating MD-PhD program in the mid-1950s—nearly a decade before the NIH created the MSTP.
What is Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine?
In this drama, residents routinely violate work-hour limits without consequence.
What is Greys Anatomy
This major Bay Area body of water is not actually a bay in the geographic sense, but a flooded river valley created after the last Ice Age.
What is the San Francisco Bay?
Despite their rivalry, UCSF and Stanford share this NIH-backed infrastructure for clinical trials, training, and translational research.
What is the UCSF–Stanford Clinical and Translational Science Institute?
This institution is the newest recipient of an MSTP grant?
University of Nebraska Medical Center
This medical drama is based on a South Korean series of the same name.
What is The Good Doctor?