If you don’t have friends or relatives in the SF Bay Area we would suggest starting with Airbnb, Craigslist, UCSF's housing list, or SFGate. Theresa McGovern, our medical student program coordinator, also has occasional “leads” on student housing.
Residents, interns, office staff, nurses, hospitalists and other attending physicians tend to be a great source for recommendations. You can also log on to SFGate for lots of happenings around the Bay Area.
San Francisco has a very good mass transit system. We suggest you start with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and San Francisco Muni. California Pacific has shuttles to and from the Civic Center BART and Muni stations, and to all its campuses from the main Van Ness Campus.
Feel free to email or call us at (415) 600-5847 and we can ask a resident or intern to call you back to discuss their experiences here as students or as current house staff.
We hope to see you soon!