What are your thoughts on the Mayo Clinic (Rochester) residency program?

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For such a top tier program, there's not much chatter about it here. What are the goods and bads (other than location?) Interview impressions?
 
I grew up in Rochester and trained there. Rochester's kind of lame, but Mpls is close enough to get dinner and catch a concert or sporting event occasionally. Training program is excellent. If I had to pick a weakness, I'd say peds (no freestanding children's hospital, lower volumes than big-name peds powerhouses). Lots of CRNAs, and there is an SRNA program, but these things work to your advantage in that you get to all your didactics and don't spend all night in the OR. You never compete for cases with SRNAs (way more than enough to go around). You get a lot more supervisory experience (both with residents and CRNAs) than most big-name programs, which I found particularly valuable when starting a mostly ACT practice job. I finished up with multiples to orders-of-magnitude higher than ACGME required numbers for every category (including peds, which I mentioned above as a relative weakness). Did a ton of cardiac (>200 pump cases, >400 CVC/PAC, >100 TEE), nerve blocks (>400), labor epidurals (>300), etc. Lots of zebras mixed in with your bread and butter. I once did two pheochromocytomas back to back (ended up with ~10 total), as well as back to back cardiac amyloid cases. Did 5 liver transplants in a weekend. Multiple thoracoabdominal aneurysms. Combined c-section/aortic valve replacement. And so on. We did 7 months of CCM (including intern year) when I was there. "Senior" ICU months (2) have you functioning interchangeably with CCM fellows from all disciplines (med/cc, pulm/cc, trauma/cc, anesthesia/cc). Culture is pretty laid back. Faculty very nice and respectful for the most part. Surgeons can be dickbags, but that's just academics I think. I think the program and city attract a lot of married with children types (low cost, safe, good schools, pretty non-existent nightlife, etc). Lots of Mormon folks, in all specialties, but especially anesthesia. Overall, I was 100% prepared to hit the ground running in a busy private practice on day 1 after finishing my training. Purely from a training standpoint, it's hard to beat. There are definitely other great programs with better weather/city life. Pick what's important to you and rank accordingly.
 
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I grew up in Rochester and trained there. Rochester's kind of lame, but Mpls is close enough to get dinner and catch a concert or sporting event occasionally. Training program is excellent. If I had to pick a weakness, I'd say peds (no freestanding children's hospital, lower volumes than big-name peds powerhouses). Lots of CRNAs, and there is an SRNA program, but these things work to your advantage in that you get to all your didactics and don't spend all night in the OR. You never compete for cases with SRNAs (way more than enough to go around). You get a lot more supervisory experience (both with residents and CRNAs) than most big-name programs, which I found particularly valuable when starting a mostly ACT practice job. I finished up with multiples to orders-of-magnitude higher than ACGME required numbers for every category (including peds, which I mentioned above as a relative weakness). Did a ton of cardiac (>200 pump cases, >400 CVC/PAC, >100 TEE), nerve blocks (>400), labor epidurals (>300), etc. Lots of zebras mixed in with your bread and butter. I once did two pheochromocytomas back to back (ended up with ~10 total), as well as back to back cardiac amyloid cases. Did 5 liver transplants in a weekend. Multiple thoracoabdominal aneurysms. Combined c-section/aortic valve replacement. And so on. We did 7 months of CCM (including intern year) when I was there. "Senior" ICU months (2) have you functioning interchangeably with CCM fellows from all disciplines (med/cc, pulm/cc, trauma/cc, anesthesia/cc). Culture is pretty laid back. Faculty very nice and respectful for the most part. Surgeons can be dickbags, but that's just academics I think. I think the program and city attract a lot of married with children types (low cost, safe, good schools, pretty non-existent nightlife, etc). Lots of Mormon folks, in all specialties, but especially anesthesia. Overall, I was 100% prepared to hit the ground running in a busy private practice on day 1 after finishing my training. Purely from a training standpoint, it's hard to beat. There are definitely other great programs with better weather/city life. Pick what's important to you and rank accordingly.
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Sounds like a fantastic program. 👍
 
I spent some time there as a student.... all I can say is... AMAZING PROGRAM, SECOND TO NONE !!!
 
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Again, the thread was in reference to things other than weather. I get it, it's Rochester. Nobody is going there to vacation.
 
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