Trainee experience

During this program, learning experiences allow you to:

• Enhance your knowledge and acquire practical skills of assessment, evaluation, diagnosis, intervention, and treatment outcome for various hematologic disorders
• Advance competency in management of chemotherapy, immunotherapy, cellular therapy, and related treatment complications
• Increase critical thinking skills in comprehensive care
• Develop self-directed skills to maintain updated clinical knowledge and practice guidelines
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and respect for diversity in all professional interactions
• Promote the advancement of hematology through practice, education, and research 

Hematology clinical rotations

The curriculum includes the following clinical experiences:

Core rotations

• Hematology inpatient services
• Hematology hospital-based outpatient services
• Hematology Diagnostic Clinic
• Acute leukemias and myelodysplastic syndrome
• Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Dysproteinemia
• Classical hematology
• Coagulation
• Blood and bone marrow transplant (BMT) inpatient and hospital-based outpatient services
• Cellular, molecular, and bispecifics (CMB) inpatient services (includes CAR-T cell therapy)

Additional required rotations

• Transfusion medicine
• Palliative care
• Hematopathology
• Infectious disease
• Elective rotations (2)

Didactic coursework

The fellowship offers a five-week hematology lecture series with the medical students at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. The didactic responsibilities include required readings, online learning modules, skills training at the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center, Grand Rounds, journal club presentations, and educational conferences.

The curriculum includes dedicated research time to provide you with opportunities to participate in a clinical research project and authorship for publication.

Schedule and hours

For the majority of the fellowship, the learning schedule includes primarily weekday hours with approximately 40 hours weekly. This does not include additional time spent on didactic responsibilities. The rotations may vary with 8-12 hour days, four to five days a week depending on outpatient or inpatient schedule. 

The program provides you with four hours every other week as dedicated research time to achieve the best learning opportunities in clinical research to improve patient care outcomes.

Department and faculty

The Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Hematology Fellowship is coordinated and taught by the clinical, scientific, and technical staff of Mayo Clinic. Faculty members are chosen for their commitment to teaching, as well as their clinical practice and research experience. Many have published and lectured extensively and are highly regarded in their fields. Fellows will work closely with APPs as well as M.D.s in subspecialty clinics and hospital rotations. You have direct access to these individuals throughout the training program.

Visiting professors and lecturers

A hallmark of higher education excellence is the breadth and depth of information and experience provided to you by faculty and visiting experts. Many prominent professors visit Mayo Clinic each year to lecture in their areas of medical and scientific expertise.

As a student at Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences, you are encouraged to learn from these valuable resources by attending all relevant conferences, lectures, and seminars prepared for students, interns, residents, fellows, and consulting staff.

Facilities

Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota, includes an extensive outpatient complex, Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester, and substantial research and education facilities. This Mayo Clinic site is among the largest, most advanced medical centers in the world.