Trainee experience

The Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Infectious Diseases Fellowship is a comprehensive one-year program where fellows are supervised and assessed by the interdisciplinary faculty of the division of infectious diseases including advanced practice provers, physicians, pharmacists, and nurses.

Clinical training and rotations

The Infectious Diseases Fellowship will include didactic education sessions on key knowledge in infectious diseases, self-directed learning modules and manuscripts, direct, supervised patient care experiences, and external didactic educational experiences from leading educators in focused areas of infectious diseases. 

Trainees will attend teaching conferences with infectious diseases fellows, including microbiology, pharmacology, and radiology rounds. 

Schedule and hours

Work weeks are usually 40 hours, but some weekends and flexibility are required. No call shifts and no night shifts. 

Department and faculty

Faculty members are chosen for their commitment to teaching, as well as their clinical practice and research. Many have published and lectured extensively and are highly regarded in their fields.

Visiting professors and lecturers

A hallmark of higher education excellence is the breadth and depth of information and experience provided to students by faculty and visiting experts. Many prominent professors visit Mayo Clinic each year to lecture on 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 in Arizona operates two campuses, with the Otolaryngology Physician Assistant Fellowship based almost entirely at the Phoenix location.  This premier campus features the state-of-the-art Mayo Clinic Hospital designed and built exclusively by Mayo Clinic, to deliver advanced, integrated care across disciplines.  

Nationally recognized by U.S. News and World Report, Mayo Clinic is ranked among the top 20 hospitals in the United States and has held the distinction of being the No. 1 hospital in Arizona for more than a decade.  The Phoenix campus serves as a high-performance training ground where fellows engage in complex surgical care, inpatient management, and outpatient continuity across the full spectrum of ENT conditions.

Evaluation

Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences uses these evaluative tools:

• Written examination
• Demonstration of skills
• Self-assessment exercises
• Faculty reviews