Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Scottsdale Program

Program Identity & Fit

Mayo Clinic's Arizona Internal Medicine Residency is a tertiary/quaternary academic program built around a large referral population, including the nation's largest adult solid organ transplant practice and an NCI-designated cancer center, balanced by dedicated safety-net exposure through Valleywise Health, the Phoenix VA, Circle the City, and Indian Health Service rotations. Research is structurally embedded via protected time beginning in intern year, a two-year Clinician Investigator Training Program bridging into fellowship, and named tracks in AI/data science and physician-innovation, reflecting an institutional identity oriented toward producing clinician-investigators and subspecialists. With over 60% of graduates entering fellowship (cardiology, heme/onc, GI, pulm/crit care), and a smaller but structured Primary Care Track and Health Equity Track for those pursuing ambulatory or underserved-focused careers, the program supports multiple explicit career pathways rather than a single default trajectory. The 4+4 block schedule, small class size (17/year), and heavy conference/travel funding signal a program that values self-directed scholarly productivity paired with complex inpatient/subspecialty clinical exposure.