Answers in Medical Education: Numbers and Highlights

Mayo Clinic offers educational programs and training opportunities on its three campuses to those pursuing careers in medicine, research and the health sciences. The College of Medicine at Mayo Clinic includes five schools.

Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, the oldest of Mayo's five schools, has trained more than 17,000 alumni in virtually all medical specialties since 1915.

Mayo Graduate School, in operation since 1917, focuses on six biomedical subspecialties. With an annual average predoctoral enrollment of 300 students, the school graduates around 50 Master's and Ph.D. students per year. The school also serves the educational needs of visiting predoctoral students and Summer Undergraduate Research students.

Mayo Medical School has trained and graduated more than 1,000 students since 1972. The school enrolls 42 students per year, and it also trains visiting medical clerkship students and Summer Minority Medical Students.

Mayo School of Health Sciences has increased its enrollment to over 1,275 students annually. The school provides training in 30 allied health science programs, offering associate's, bachelor's, certificate, master's and Ph.D. level training, as well as clinical internships.

Mayo School of Continuing Medical Education formally became a school in 1996. It offers approximately 257 courses and 7,000 hours of continuing medical education each year.

• Mayo Clinic and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on behalf of the Indian Health Service, formed a collaboration to work together to seek ways to reduce the burden of cancer and other diseases in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. This national agreement is the most comprehensive between the Indian Health Service and another health care organization.
  
  
• All 36 Mayo Medical School seniors who participated in the 2006 National Residency Matching Program were successful in matching with a residency program. Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education reported that 98.5 percent of its residency training positions were filled.
  
  
• In May, the first radiation therapy and respiratory care baccalaureate classes graduated from a combined Mayo School of Health Sciences/University of Minnesota program. Four radiation therapists and 10 respiratory care specialists received their degrees. The collaboration enables respiratory care and radiation therapy students to achieve a four-year bachelor's degree and professional certification from Mayo School of Health Sciences.
  
  
• Mayo Clinic hosted local high school students for its second annual Doc Camp in Arizona, in which students spend time with Mayo physicians and learn about careers in medicine.
  
  
• Mayo Clinic partnered with IBM to host a weeklong ExITE camp, which encourages junior high girls to pursue scientific interests and highlights opportunities in engineering and technology. Students met with Mayo researchers, participated in a variety of projects (including isolating DNA strands), and viewed machines that create medical equipment.
  
  
• Through a partnership with the University of North Florida, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville hosted the Minorities in Medicine Symposium for promising 10th grade students from schools in the area. Students and their parents attended a session to improve test taking skills, received information on completing scholarship applications, and were encouraged to take more rigorous courses.
  
  
• Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education was granted continued accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Institutional Review Committee. The committee acknowledged the school's continuing efforts to maintain effective institutional oversight of graduate medical education, commended its multiple best practices, and noted its support of medical education scholarship.