The Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Fellowship incorporates core clinical rotations, research opportunities, and a variety of elective opportunities.

Clinical training

Core training experiences cover:

• Inpatient and outpatient endocrinology consultations
• Pediatric endocrinology
• Specialized endocrine function testing
• Nutrition
• Continuity clinic
• Specialties clinic
• Research

First year rotations include:

• 7.5 months of outpatient endocrinology clinic
• 2.5 months of inpatient consults at Mayo Clinic Hospital
• One month of outpatient pediatric endocrinology clinic at Phoenix Children’s Hospital
• One month of elective

Second year rotations include:

• 7.5 months of outpatient endocrinology clinic
• 2.5 months of inpatient consults at Mayo Clinic Hospital
• One month of combined outpatient/inpatient clinics at the Phoenix VA Hospital
• One month of elective

Outpatient clinics

The outpatient clinic experiences include but are not limited to diabetes, thyroid, general endocrine, gestational diabetes, andrology, pituitary, pediatric endocrine, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and fellow’s continuity clinics.  

As a fellow, you have your own schedule and emphasis is placed on continuity of care. In the continuity clinic, you will see patients with a variety of endocrine disorders, including thyroid disease, adrenal disease, osteoporosis, pituitary disorders, PCOS, and diabetes mellitus.

Outpatient clinics include:

• Thyroid ultrasound and biopsy clinic
• Diabetes and technology clinic
• Bariatric intake clinic
• Pituitary clinic
• Adrenal clinic

Inpatient rotation

The inpatient consult rotation takes place at Mayo Clinic Hospital for 2.5 months each year of fellowship.  There is also an inpatient portion that occurs during the one-month rotation at the VA Hospital in Phoenix during the second year of fellowship.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital & Phoenix VA Health Care System

Fellows rotate to Phoenix Children’s Hospital and the Phoenix VA Health Care System and interact with patients from a broad range of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Both sites serve patients from the surrounding Phoenix metropolitan area, the greater Southwest, local at-risk/underserved communities, and Native American populations.

As a fellow, you learn to work within different healthcare systems, communicate, and coordinate care with faculty, fellows, and residents from multiple disciplines. You will also develop effective communication interacting directly with the diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic patient population.

Electives

A variety of elective opportunities allow you to individualize the fellowship to best meet your career goals. Elective experiences are available in related specialties such as endocrine surgery, pathology, radiology, ophthalmology, and nephrology, and hypertension.

Call frequency

Your call schedule is different for each rotation. Mayo Clinic follows the recommendations of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Because much of the training is outpatient based, as is the clinical practice of endocrinology, many of the rotations do not require night call.