UCSF job-training program has lofty aims: ‘Lift people out of poverty’

UCSF is preparing to accept its latest batch of trainees as part of a $14 million workforce-development initiative for young San Francisco adults.

Michael Jones, the Career Pathways program director, said the program’s first cohort of 15-20 radiology technicians-in-training will learn in January whether they were accepted into the 18-month course, which begins in June. Once trained, the participants would be eligible for entry-level jobs paying more than $100,000 per year, according to the university.

They’d also be filling critical, vacant positions within UCSF’s hospitals and research departments, Jones said…

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