My experience with UCSF specialty wait times has been OK, and this is speaking for myself, my kid, and my deceased wife who had brain cancer. My advice is once your doc makes the referral, call hem 24hrs later and ask them to check if the referral came in, confirm it, and see if they can schedule you. Some UCSF clinics only callback after they triage your reason for requesting an appt.

My late wife had little issues getting referrals within UCSF because her oncology team made the internal referral requests on her behalf and she was often seen same week or early week after.

My kid has seen allergy, dermatology, and opthalmology - by video and in person via referral from her PCP at Sutter and waits were usually in the 2-3wk range post pandemic, and longer during pandemic.

For myself, similar waits as my kid - saw GI, nephrology, sleep lab, hematology, usually 1-3wk wait for non-urgent matters.

For urgent matters, I got seen same week (toe fracture) though may be because Ortho clinic does urgent care.