The 12-month Brain Injury Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship is designed to prepare you for a full-time academic career in brain injury rehabilitation medicine. 

Clinical training

Clinical training in the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship includes the following:

• Three months each of structured experiences in acute consults including intensive care unit, inpatient rehabilitation, and outpatient practice providing the opportunity for fellows to assess and provide care to patients with widely varying clinical problems.
• Procedural experience in botulinum toxin injections with various forms of guidance and intrathecal baclofen pump management.
• A vast array of elective opportunities is available with world-renowned experts.

Research training

Research opportunities at Mayo Clinic are outstanding. Your participation in any research project will depend on your professional interests and capabilities.  A dedicated mentor will support your research experience and guide you through available resources including vast librarian support, epidemiologic database, and dedicated education for grant and scientific writing. Mayo Clinic is a TBI model system center continuously funded since 1998.

Didactic training

Mayo Clinic's Brain Injury Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship allows you dedicated time to participate in didactic training, including:

• Dedicated brain injury medicine lecture series and journal club
• Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Grand Rounds

Teaching opportunities

You have the opportunity to teach PM&R Residents, medical students, therapy students, and other colleagues throughout your fellowship. If interested, you can also attend lectures through the residency programs clinical educator’s track.

Evaluation

To ensure that you acquire adequate knowledge and develop your technical skills, your performance is monitored carefully during the course of your fellowship. You will be evaluated formally by faculty and the program director.

Alumni

The most important indicator of the success of a training program is found in the outcomes of the graduates upon completion of their training. Our Brain Injury Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship graduates have a 100% job placement rate.

Here's a look at what our recent graduates have gone on to accomplish: