Pros
Terrific array of benefits, including a lot of annual PTO, and excellent medical and dental coverage. The medical coverage continues for life depending on how long you work here. Great retirement package including 403B plans and a Calpers pension plan. Relaxed academic atmosphere. Shallow management structure means you are not more than a few levels down below C-level officers. This is health care, so UCSF Medical Center is revenue-generating even in this downturn. And as I point out to my friends in Silicon Vally: we're not making widgets here. The work we do in IT helps doctors make sick people better.
Cons
It's an academic hospital, so the technology is not exactly cutting edge. Some systems here have been in place since the 1970s. We are in the midst of moving from a paper patient record to an electronic one, and this is somewhat painful in an environment like a university which tends to resist change as an organization. Likewise, UCSF is somewhat risk averse, so change that does get approved tends to occur very slowly, and is slow to be embraced. Finally, as this is an academic institution, it possess a strong culture of "let's have a meeting" throughout the protracted phases of any change or improvement.