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 has two campuses in Arizona. The Mayo Clinic campus in Phoenix, Arizona includes the state-of-the-art Mayo Clinic Hospital, the first hospital entirely designed and built by Mayo Clinic. It has been recognized several times by Phoenix magazine as the Best Hospital in Phoenix. Services in numerous medical and surgical disciplines are provided, including outstanding programs in cancer treatment and organ transplantation.

Mayo Clinic's campus in Scottsdale, Arizona, is centered around a beautiful, five-story outpatient clinic. This modern facility contains extensive exam rooms, an outpatient surgery center equipped for general anesthesia, a full-service laboratory, a pharmacy, a patient education library, an endoscopy suite, and a 188-seat auditorium for patient, staff, and student education programs.

During the fellowship, the majority of your time is spent at the Phoenix campus.

Evaluation

Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences uses these evaluative tools:

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