Mayo Clinic
Started by FoughtFyr
I interviewed there last year. I thought the residents were a great group of people. The ED facilities were very nice. The new program director is a really neat person. I was very impressed by her interviewing skills and her involvement in the EM world. She's a great asset to that program. My biggest concerns were:
1. Seeing a diverse patient population was very important to me and I just didn't feel like I would find it in Rochester, MN. I asked all of my interviewers about this issue and most of them played it off as not being a problem. Then I asked one of the new faculty members who had come from one of the big cities (Philly, I think). At first he gave the generic response, but when I pressed him on it he said: "You know, now that you mention it there really isn't that much diversity."
2. The whole "We're the Mayo Clinic" thing didn't really turn me on. I don't recall liking how the off-service rotations were set up and I was concerned about the strength of the other services in the hospital. Mayo just graduated it's first class of residents.
3. Finally, when I asked where the program was striving to be in 5 years their response was that they thought their program was pretty much where it needed to be and that right now they were just trying to get approved for more residents. I found that answer thoroughly unimpressive. EVERY program, whether it's been around for 5 years or 15 should be continuously looking for areas in which to improve. That a program that hadn't even graduated residents could say that it was done improving itself was pretty striking.
Just my thoughts from last year.
1. Seeing a diverse patient population was very important to me and I just didn't feel like I would find it in Rochester, MN. I asked all of my interviewers about this issue and most of them played it off as not being a problem. Then I asked one of the new faculty members who had come from one of the big cities (Philly, I think). At first he gave the generic response, but when I pressed him on it he said: "You know, now that you mention it there really isn't that much diversity."
2. The whole "We're the Mayo Clinic" thing didn't really turn me on. I don't recall liking how the off-service rotations were set up and I was concerned about the strength of the other services in the hospital. Mayo just graduated it's first class of residents.
3. Finally, when I asked where the program was striving to be in 5 years their response was that they thought their program was pretty much where it needed to be and that right now they were just trying to get approved for more residents. I found that answer thoroughly unimpressive. EVERY program, whether it's been around for 5 years or 15 should be continuously looking for areas in which to improve. That a program that hadn't even graduated residents could say that it was done improving itself was pretty striking.
Just my thoughts from last year.
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They are a fairly new program and as of yet, have not had a D.O. in the program.
