Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Phoenix Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a five-year academic urology residency at Mayo Clinic's Phoenix campus, embedded within a top-ranked tertiary academic medical center known for complex and quaternary-level urologic disease. The program emphasizes one-on-one surgical mentoring rather than a large resident cohort, spans the full breadth of urologic subspecialty exposure (endourology, laparoscopic urology, oncology, reconstructive surgery, pediatric urology, infertility, neuro-urology), and explicitly frames itself as preparing residents for either clinical practice or academic medicine. Research is positioned as a core competency, with residents expected to generate and answer questions affecting urologic practice patterns through structured basic science and clinical projects, and the program benefits from Mayo's integrated graduate school and biomedical research infrastructure. With only four positions per year, it favors a small, closely mentored training model over high-volume, high-throughput residency structures.