Mayo Clinic has a long-standing tradition of practicing the art and science of medicine. As a pioneer in the development of the integrated group practice of medicine, Mayo Clinic was founded on the belief that physicians and scientists should work together, teach and learn from one another, and conduct research to advance the science and quality of medical care.

At Mayo Clinic, you'll discover:

• A high faculty-to-resident/fellow ratio, which gives you direct access to some of the finest clinicians, surgeons and researchers in the world
• Experienced faculty who are passionate about teaching and committed to your success
• Extensive didactic training within your own specialty and the opportunity for interdisciplinary studies
• Full resident responsibility and steadily increasing autonomy for patient care
• A clinician-investigator track in many specialties, designed specifically for physicians who want a career in both research and clinical medicine
• Extraordinary state-of-the-art education, clinical and research resources to help you reach your highest goals.

Mayo's primary value
Mayo Clinic is renowned for its primary value – the needs of the patient come first. All staff and trainees are committed to living this value with every patient, every day through the Mayo Clinic Model of Care and the Mayo Clinic Model of Education.

Committed to your education
The Mayo faculty also is dedicated to providing you with the training and experience necessary to become a skilled clinician and/or scientist. The clinical, research and educational resources you’ll enjoy are unparalleled.

Team oriented
At Mayo Clinic, everyone actively works together as an integrated team to achieve Mayo’s primary mission of patient care. Our staff clinicians and scientists are called "consultants" in recognition of their teaching and mentoring role in the team.

• Total residency and fellowship programs: 280
• Total number of trainees per year: 1,300
• Total number of applications: 16,300
• Third largest provider of medical school faculty nationally
• More than 20,000 graduates since the school's inception in 1915
• 95 percent of programs above national average in board passage rates

Program Description

Clinical Training
The clinical component of the program emphasizes training in general internal medicine and education over service. You will gain extensive experience in outpatient ambulatory care and take rotations in all internal medicine subspecialties. You also will have ample opportunity to become skilled in diagnostic procedures such as arthrocentesis, endothracheal intubation, lumbar puncture and thoracentesis.

Rotation Schedule

The following is a typical rotation schedule:

First Year (PGY-1)
General Internal Medicine Hospital Service	5 months
Allergy/Community Internal Medicine	1 month
Emergency Medicine	1 month
Neurology	1 month
Rheumatology	1 month
Cardiology	1 month
Acute Care Clinic	1 month
Critical Care	1 month

Second Year (PGY-2)
General Internal Medicine (Hospital Senior)	1 month
Elective	2 months
Endocrine	1 month
Critical Care Medicine	1 month
Cardiology	2 months
HIV	1 month
Day float/Consult	1 month
Subspecialty Selectives	3 months

Third Year (PGY-3)
Elective	2 months
General Internal Medicine (Hospital Senior)	3 months
Cardiology	1 month
Subspecialty Selectives	5 months
Day Float	1 month

Didactic Training

Clinical conferences, seminars, small discussion groups, journal clubs and one-on-one instruction are integral parts of this residency. Resident report is held four mornings per week and is attended by various generalists and on staff.

Daily noon conferences cover a wide variety of topics.

Admissions

Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education (MSGME) accepts residents and fellows who are highly qualified for its programs. Successful candidates must exhibit strong qualifications for the specialty they wish to pursue. Applicants should possess the following qualities:

• Critical thinking skills
• Sound judgment
• Emotional stability and maturity
• Empathy for others
• Physical and mental stamina
• Ability to learn and function in a variety of settings

You must be able to perform the essential functions of the specialty and meet the standards of the curriculum. Appointments at Mayo Clinic normally begin about July 1.

General Admissions Requirements
Medical and surgical residencies and fellowships are open to U.S. citizens, permanent U.S. immigrants and international applicants as follows:

• Medical and surgical residencies are open to qualified graduates of accredited U.S. and Canadian medical schools.
• Dental specialty residencies are open to qualified graduates of approved U.S. and Canadian dental schools.
• Graduates from medical schools outside the U.S. and Canada must be certified by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates to qualify for admission. Information about certification and visa sponsorship, if required, is available from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG).
• Mayo supports ECFMG J-1 visa sponsorship for residents and fellows enrolled in graduate medical education. Mayo will support an H-1B temporary work visa under the following circumstances:
  
  - When J-1 visa sponsorship is unavailable – that is, the program is not eligible for ECFMG certification or the program is non-ACGME accredited and non-ABMS recognized.
  
  - When a foreign national is a graduate of U.S. medical school.
  
  - When a foreign national holds current H-1B status for graduate medical education at another school.
• When applying, all residency and fellowship applicants must have their medical school transcripts, together with an original letter from the school’s dean, sent from their medical school to MSGME.
• All applicable licensure eligibility requirements must be fulfilled prior to starting a Mayo residency or fellowship program.
• A pre-admission health review and current immunization record are required prior to starting an MSGME program.
• Prospective residents and fellows must pass a criminal background check and drug screening.

• Vacation (15 working days per year)
  
• Short-term disability (sick leave up to three months)
  
• Dental assistance plan

Insurance Programs*

• Comprehensive medical care plan
  
• Voluntary basic life insurance, disability insurance, and family life insurance
  
• Voluntary additional life insurance
  
• Voluntary accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  
• Excess personal liability insurance

Other Benefits*

• Dependent and health-care reimbursement accounts
  
• Adoption reimbursement
  
• Paid and unpaid leaves of absence
  
• Tax-deferred annuity plans
  
• Meal subsidy for on-call residents
  
• Parking and inter-campus bus shuttle

Services and Support Groups*

Mayo Clinic offers many services to assist you during your residency and/or fellowship training program. Many, but not all, of the services shown are available at all three Mayo sites (Jacksonville, Fla.; Rochester, Minn.; and Scottsdale, Ariz.). However, all are accessible within the Mayo system.

• Minority Student Affairs Office: For help with questions and concerns regarding minority issues and community relations, contact Juan M. Bowen, M.D., minority affairs director, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, (507) 284-8230.
• Mayo Fellows Associations: These organizations are dedicated to maintaining excellence in residency education and encouraging closer social and professional relationships among members.
• Financial and Insurance Counseling: Advisers are available to help with personal financial questions.
• Employee Assistance Program: A Mayo service providing professional, confidential assistance for your professional or personal problems.
• Employment Opportunities: Guidance is available for your spouse/significant other interested in employment opportunities.
• Childcare Referral: Provides services to families and referrals to childcare and preschool programs.
• Child Illness Care: Mayo will provide help with caring for your ill child.
• Activities Program: Special events and services are offered in four areas: social/family, culture, recreation and education.
• Alice Mayo Society: Organizes social events and activities for spouses of staff members, female physicians and non-medical female staff members

• Personalized training for selected individuals who wish to pursue careers as clinician-investigators
• Formal training in clinical and basic research in preparation for conducting independent research
• Combination of clinical specialty or subspecialty training and research experience leading to clinical specialty or subspecialty certification
• Opportunity to pursue a master's degree in biomedical science or clinical research
• A high faculty-to-trainee ratio, large patient population and advanced diagnostic, therapeutic and research facilities that combine to create an integrated, comprehensive educational experience.

• Clinician-Investigator Seminar
  As a CI trainee, assisted by your mentor or advisor, you will organize and present an interactive seminar integrating basic science with clinical medicine. A discussion panel of Mayo staff clinician-investigators, regarded as experts in the field of academic medicine, will participate in the seminar.
• Departmental Research Seminars
  During the two-year research block, you will attend and participate in journal clubs, tutorials, courses and seminar series that are organized by the department(s) in which you are assigned.
• General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Clinical Research Curriculum
  A monthly one-hour course given by various clinician-investigators covers specific issues of clinical research, such as NIH grant writing workshop, clinical research trials design and implementation, medical statistics, medical ethics, manuscript writing and public presentation.
• Mayo Graduate School Courses
  You will be encouraged to select Mayo Graduate School courses of direct relevance to your training. Graduate courses are available in the following graduate programs: Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Cell Biology & Genetics, Biomedical Engineering, Immunology, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Tumor Biology and Virology & Gene Therapy.
• Invited Speakers
  As a CI trainee, you'll have frequent opportunities to attend and interact with invited speakers who are prominent in the field of academic medicine. Such interaction provides the opportunity to learn from role model academicians and to build relationships with national leaders in academic medicine.

Evaluation and Career Development
To ensure that you acquire adequate knowledge and develop your technical skills, your performance and progress will be evaluated carefully throughout the CITP. You will meet periodically with your supervising mentor and a faculty member to discuss the program and your ultimate career goals.

Mayo Clinic actively recruits many of its staff physicians from its own training programs. Thus, attractive career opportunities often are available at one of Mayo's group practices in Jacksonville, Fla., Rochester, Minn., or Scottsdale, Ariz.

Trips
During the CI training period, you'll receive one trip in addition to your residency or fellowship trip, for your professional growth and development. You also may take trips for presentation of your research findings.

Mayo Clinic Paid Benefits*

• Vacation (15 working days per year)
  
• Short-term disability (sick leave up to three months)
  
• Dental assistance plan

Insurance Programs*

• Comprehensive medical care plan
  
• Voluntary basic life insurance, disability insurance, and family life insurance
  
• Voluntary additional life insurance
  
• Voluntary accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  
• Excess personal liability insurance

Other Benefits*

• Dependent and health-care reimbursement accounts
  
• Adoption reimbursement
  
• Paid and unpaid leaves of absence
  
• Tax-deferred annuity plans
  
• Meal subsidy for on-call residents
  
• Parking and inter-campus bus shuttle

If you would like to apply for a position in the CITP, please indicate your interest when you apply for a specific Mayo Clinic residency or fellowship program. Additional interviews will be scheduled for you in your area of interest during the residency or fellowship interview process.

Master's Degree

The Master of Science program requires a minimum of 24 didactic credits, a comprehensive written exam, and the preparation and oral defense of a thesis. The equivalent of one year of effort must be devoted to research. The thesis comprises a structure for the development of a plan to address a research problem, an orderly approach to the project, and a suitable approach to the analysis and presentation of the results. Candidates who are enrolled in a residency/fellowship program must obtain approval from their department/division to apply to the program.

Minimum Credit Requirements
Students must complete 24 credits that are approved by the CRTP Education Committee with a minimum grade point average if 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) as required by Mayo Graduate School. The curriculum consists of required and elective credits from the Clinical Research (CR) and Health Science Research (HSR) disciplines. Elective courses outside the CR or HSR discipline will need approval by the CRTP Curriculum Subcommittee. At least one-half of the credits taken and included in the degree program must be graded under the A-F system. It is expected that a minimum of one year will be devoted to research.

Transfer Credits
A total of six (6) didactic credits from outside Mayo Graduate School may be transferred into this program. Students who wish to transfer credits to substitute for a Mayo course must contact the Mayo course director. If the course director determines that a student has the knowledge equivalent to satisfactory performance in the Mayo course, the student can request the transfer of credits.  Please refer to the Mayo Graduate School Catalog for further details.

Required Courses

Elective Courses include:

Other Mayo Graduate School courses listed in the school’s catalog may be considered as electives.

Research

Master's Degree Thesis
The thesis is the most important document that the M.S. candidate will prepare during the course of graduate study. The thesis is an archival record of the scientific accomplishments that justify the awarding of the degree. The thesis contains complete documentation of the candidate’s approach to the research question, including a comprehensive review of the literature related to the thesis topic, discussion of the significance and potential impact of the focused question, the methods and measures used to address the question, the results and discussion of those results taking into account their strengths and limitations, how they fit with and extend existing knowledge, implications for future practice and the next steps to be taken as a result of this research. The thesis represents the candidate’s approach to an original question posed by the candidate. Ideally, the thesis could be used as a springboard for a subsequent grant application.

Proposal Review Criteria - the submitted proposal will be reviewed by the Admissions and Academic Progress Subcommittee for the following criteria: (Please attach appropriate documentation if not included in the protocol.)

• Defined as clinical research (if animal model justify significance to human disease)
• Scientific peer-reviewed - demonstrated by minute excerpt from appropriate internal or external [peer-review] research committee.
• IRB reviewed - protocol may be submitted with IRB approval pending
• Authorship - Scholar must hold first author status
• Appropriate scope - as outlined above, typically may result in one to two journal articles
• Role of the scholar – Scholar must describe their role in the design, development and implementation of the research project.
• Feasibility
• Sufficient time to collect data/recruit patients
• Sufficient funding to complete study
• Define patient recruitment plan including timeline
• Current status - provide information on the current status of the project, e.g., 50 percent of data is collected and data collection will be completed in X months or 25 percent of the patients are recruited and patient recruitment will be completed in X months.

Certificate Program

Minimum Credit Requirements
Students must complete 12 creditswith a minimum grade point average if 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) as required by Mayo Graduate School. It is expected that a minimum of six months will be devoted to research. A publishable manuscript of the research project will be required for completion.

Transfer Credits
A total of six (6) didactic credits from outside Mayo Graduate School may be transferred into this program. Students who wish to transfer credits to substitute for a Mayo course must contact the Mayo course director. If the course director determines that a student has the knowledge equivalent to satisfactory performance in the Mayo course, the student can request the transfer of credits.

Required Courses
The courses that are required to complete the Certificate in Clinical Research are indicated below. In addition there is a required one-day non-credit workshop.

Elective Courses include:

Other MGS courses listing in the MGS catalog may be considered as electives.

Research

Manuscript
The manuscript summarizes the results of a research project that may be a part of the mentor's larger research endeavor or an original question of the candidate. The manuscript is not as comprehensive as a thesis as the word count is usually limited by journal requirements. Submission to a journal is not required, however, the manuscript should be submitted to the committee in the same form as it would be submitted to a journal.

Proposal Review Criteria - the submitted proposal will be reviewed by the Admissions/Matriculation Subcommittee for the following criteria: (Please attach appropriate documentation if not included in the protocol.)

• Defined as clinical research (if animal model justify significance to human disease)
• Scientific peer-reviewed - demonstrated by minute excerpt from appropriate research committee. If the project is a retrospective chart review, deemed non-therapeutic and minimal risk, and not a part of a larger project, the protocol will need to be assessed for feasibility and sample size by the research committee even though this may not be required by IRB. (If proposal is part of a larger project, candidate must provide a copy of the abstract and documentation of scientific peer-review of the larger project, i.e., minute excerpt from appropriate research committee or funding agency.)
• IRB reviewed - protocol may be submitted with IRB approval pending or identify IRB approval of larger project
• Authorship - Typically the scholar would hold first author status, or indicate if part of a larger multi-author study
• Role of the scholar – Scholar must describe their role in the design, development and implementation of the research project.
• Feasibility
• Sufficient time to collect data/recruit patients
• Sufficient funding to complete study
• Define Patient recruitment plan including timeline
• Current status - provide information on the current status of the project, e.g., 50% of data is collected and data collection will be completed in X months or 25% of the patients are recruited and patient recruitment will be completed in X months.

Clinical research embraces a spectrum of scientific disciplines (e.g. epidemiology, biostatistics, pharmacology, biology and psychology), methodologies (e.g. observational, experimental), health professions (e.g. radiology, nursing, dentistry, clinical psychology), and specialties and subspecialties (e.g. internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, cardiology, nephrology and others).

Other qualifications for the program include:

Note: No more than 50 percent of the course work taken prior to admission to the Certificate Program or Master's Degree can be transferred into the program.

Program Cost
A program fee will be assessed at the time of admission to the Clinical Research Training Program. This fee is non-refundable.

• Certificate Program: $3,500
• Master’s Degree: $7,000

How to Apply
To apply to the Clinical Research Training Program, please:

Step 2. Complete and submit application materials
Mayo Clinic accepts, reviews and processes all application materials for the Clinical Research Training Program. No matching or electronic application services are used. Mayo Clinic must receive your materials by either March 1 or September 1 for the following academic year.

There are two admission cycles. However, all course work begins in July.

To apply, you will need to complete a CRTP application form. Please carefully review the instructions before completing the application form.

The application package requires the following materials:

• Transcript from the institution granting the doctoral degree.
• Curriculum vitae and bibliography.
• A personal career development plan.
• A letter of endorsement from the proposed primary mentor.
• A letter of endorsement from the chair of the candidate's Mayo Clinic division/department.
• Two letters of recommendation.
• A description of the proposed research experience.

Once we receive your completed application materials, a decision made within six to eight weeks and you will be contacted.

Step 3. Register for classes
The CRTP course work sequence begins in July with registration each quarter. Admission to CRTP is not required prior to registration for courses. However, enrollment in some courses may be limited to students admitted to the Certificate Program or Master's Degree in Clinical Research.

Please contact one of the program’s education coordinators if you would like more information about the required courses, or if you are interested in enrolling in classes prior to admission to the Clinical Research Training Program.