Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Rochester Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-affiliated, academic tertiary-center family medicine residency that deliberately fuses Mayo Clinic's quaternary-care resources with a small-town continuity practice model at Mayo Family Clinic Kasson, the sole medical clinic serving rural Dodge County. Residents build a genuine longitudinal continuity panel in Kasson while rotating through Mayo's subspecialty-dense outpatient and inpatient services (obstetrics, procedure clinic, NICU-adjacent newborn service, MICU), giving unusually high procedural breadth (vasectomies, IUDs, joint injections, circumcisions, casting) for a family medicine program. Research is encouraged and well-resourced through Mayo's infrastructure but not required, reflecting a program that values clinical competence and community rootedness over mandatory scholarship; graduate outcomes split fairly evenly among rural/underserved practice, obstetrics-inclusive full-spectrum practice, Mayo Clinic fellowships (geriatrics, hospital medicine, women's health, sports medicine, preventive medicine), and academic/community placements nationally and internationally. Distinctive features include the Kasson small-town continuity clinic paired with a large academic system, an osteopathic-principles longitudinal track, a lifestyle medicine pathway, and The Center Clinic underserved/Spanish-speaking community experience, indicating the program values full-spectrum, procedurally confident family physicians comfortable moving between rural primary care and tertiary consultative resources.