Mayo pays for you medical school tuitition and gives you a full resident's salary for all 6 years. You have to wear a tie to clinic, go to jacksonville, FL for ~ 6 months to get trauma training. The structure when I interviewed was intern year, year 1,2,3/4 combined of med school, then general surgery then chief. The attendings were friendly, but mostly mayo trained. They were getting a cancer fellow from oregon, and had a new attending for allegeheny who was interested in OSA. They appeared to do alot of orthognathic and implants, and 3rds. The program director said you should expect to get 150-200 major OR cases as a chief. Rochester seemed small and was COLD in october. The hospital is really amazing, equipment, art etc.
I did not like the program structure with the OMFS experience so far apart. The is the persistent rumor that the attendings do most of the cutting, but the residents denied this when I inquired. My program has the reputation of malignant attendings and a high divorce rate which is completely false. I ranked it in the middle of my list based on geography, and desire to go to a higher surgical volume program.
