Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Rochester Program

Program Identity & Fit

Mayo Clinic's Rochester pediatrics residency is an academic, tertiary/quaternary-care program embedded in a top-ranked, subspecialty-dense institution, offering fifteen categorical positions plus a combined pediatrics-child neurology track, and drawing on Level 1 trauma and children's surgical center resources for high-acuity exposure alongside outpatient and community sites (including Mayo Clinic Health System locations). Research is deeply institutionalized rather than optional, with ABP-approved Accelerated and Integrated Research Pathways, a Clinician-Investigator Training Program, and an NIH-funded StARR physician-scientist year, reflecting a program that actively cultivates future subspecialists and investigators. Graduate outcomes are fellowship-heavy across nearly every pediatric subspecialty (cardiology, hematology-oncology, neonatology, GI, endocrinology, hospital medicine, etc.), with many graduates remaining at Mayo for fellowship or faculty positions, though a meaningful minority pursue outpatient general pediatrics or community practice. The program layers individualized academic and leadership infrastructure (coaching, global health scholars, leadership academy, elective customization in AI/innovation/health delivery science) onto a flexible curriculum, signaling that it values self-directed, academically ambitious residents capable of shaping bespoke career pathways within a highly resourced system.