Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota, offers a dynamic and robust five-year categorical General Surgery Residency. During your training, your responsibilities increase with your experience, capability, and performance.
Unique program opportunities include:
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We take note of where you came from and what led you here. Everything we do is centered around mentoring you in medical research and patient care to have the impact you’ve always known you could have.
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The Integrated Community and Rural Surgery Track combines the academic excellence of Mayo Clinic residency with a robust community and rural surgical experience within Mayo Clinic Health System. An emphasis on surgical breadth within general surgery and surgical subspecialties allows a qualified candidate to confidently practice in a community, rural, or international setting after successful completion of the residency.
If you have an interest in community or rural surgery, come take a look at our program. We have a lot to offer and are looking for motivated, driven students who want to help build a program with incredible resources.
As a resident at Mayo Clinic, you'll have access to robust clinical, educational, and research resources. You'll find support both inside and outside of the campus to promote physical and mental wellness and ensure your work/life balance.
Our educational program focuses on creating the "whole surgeon." We expect our graduates to be technically outstanding while also incredibly astute clinical decision-makers.
The General Surgery Residency at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota, is accredited by the ACGME and is approved for 10 categorical positions each year.
Every resident who successfully completes the General Surgery Residency is eligible for certification through the American Board of Surgery.
While surgery instruction and teaching dates back to the earliest days of Mayo Clinic, the General Surgery Residency formally began in 1915, when the Mayo brothers created the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
The program became accredited by the American Board of Surgery in the 1950s and by the forerunner of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the 1970s. Since that time, hundreds of residents have completed their training in general surgery at Mayo Clinic.
We receive more than 1,700 applications each year. Greater than half are for preliminary surgery.
Yes, you can apply to both programs.
10 general surgery positions
1 rural track position
11 non-designated preliminary positions
Yes, we have international medical graduates in both our general surgery and preliminary programs.
No, it is not required to have previous USA experience.
Yes, you must have completed medical school within 5 years of the time you are applying.
Yes, You must pass all exams on the first try.
Mayo Clinic and the General Surgery residency program sponsor J-1 visas only. NO exceptions will be made to this policy.
The application deadline is Oct. 1.
Interviews are Dec. 14-15, 2023, and Jan. 4-5, 2024.
All applications are processed through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service).
The certification process should be started at the time of application and completed by the time the Rank Order List is submitted to the NRMP (approximately mid-February). If you are not completely certified by that time, your name will automatically be dropped from the Rank Order List by NRMP.
Three letters are required.
No, we do not.
Yes. Applicants should signal their most interested programs regardless of whether they are home or away rotations. This is the most fair and equitable process for all applicant types (M.D., D.O., and IMGs) and provides all programs that participate in receiving signals with the same information about interest level.
