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UCSF Fresno Doctors Academy Opens  Applications for 2026 School Year
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October 30, 2025

In 2019, then Sunnyside High Doctors Academy seniors Natalia Ibarra, Lizbeth Esquibel, and Alycia Dimas study the circulatory system. (GV Wire File/Nancy Price)

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UCSF Fresno Office of Health Career Pathways is accepting applications for its Doctors Academy programs at Caruthers and Sunnyside high schools.

The deadline to apply is Dec. 1.

Students may get more information and access the online application at https://doctorsacademy.ucsf.edu/ and click on the How to Apply tab.

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Staff members are available to answer questions and provide in-person assistance with the online application.

Eighth-grade students interested in applying to the Caruthers Doctors Academy programs and who live outside the Caruthers Unified School District will be required to obtain an inter-district transfer.

Applications to the Sunnyside Doctors Academy are only open to eighth-grade students in Fresno Unified School District and they must submit a transfer form to the district by Dec. 1.

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A classroom bulletin board inspires Doctors Academy seniors and other students at Sunnyside High School. (GV Wire File/Nancy Price)

Contacts for More Information

Information regarding the middle school UCSF Fresno Junior Doctors Academy will be released in early spring 2026 at https://doctorsacademy.ucsf.edu/.

For more information, Caruthers High applicants can contract: Ruth Salazar at ruth.salazar@ucsf.edu.

Sunnyside High applicants can reach Marisol Vargas  at marisol.vargas2@ucsf.edu.
General questions about UCSF Fresno Office of Health Career Pathways can be directed to Stephanie Huerta Alvarez at Stephanie.Huerta@ucsf.edu.

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