Positions

Three positions for physicians are available on a competitive basis each year in the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota.

Qualifications

To be eligible for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, you must have completed an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)-accredited program in child neurology, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, or neurology; or you must have completed at least three clinical years in an ACGME- or RCPSC-accredited graduate educational program in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, radiation oncology, radiology, or surgery.

Also see application materials for Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education.

How to apply

You must apply through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) for fellowship applicants.

The application and all supporting documentation must be submitted by July 31 of the year preceding the program start date.  The academic year begins July 1.

1. To apply to the program, visit the ERAS for fellowship applicants website. All applications to Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education programs must include these application materials.
   
   We ask for a minimum of three letters of recommendation. One of the letters must be from either the current or previous program director (if within five years of training) or the current Chair.
2. Appointments are made through the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Match, included under the Medical Specialties Matching Program, which is sponsored by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). You must register for the match in addition to applying through ERAS.
3. Applicants considered for an appointment will be invited to visit Mayo Clinic for a personal interview with the program director and selected faculty. Interviews are conducted between August and October each year.
4. Hospice and Palliative Medicine applicants will be allotted five program signals.  We consider signals when allocating interview invitations and encourage applicants to signal our program. However, we also consider applicants who do not signal us.