Mayo Clinic offers one position in a one-year Endourology and Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery Fellowship in Rochester, Minnesota. The position focuses on a combination of endourology and stone disease and robotic and laparoscopic surgical procedures.

Program highlights

This fellowship provides clinical and surgical experience for the following disciplines within urology:

• Robotic and laparoscopic surgery for renal cell carcinoma, urothelial carcinoma, prostate cancer, and reconstructive indications
• Ureteroscopic and percutaneous surgery for urolithiasis, stricture disease, and urothelial carcinoma
• Endoscopic and robotic surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia, including holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) and transurethral bipolar enucleation of the prostate (TUBE)
• Stone mineral metabolism
• Metabolic stone evaluation

In addition to a high-volume quaternary health care facility, you will have direct access to multiple research resources, including National Institutes of Health-funded stone research, the Rochester Epidemiology Project, and multiple urologic oncology institutional databases (e.g., renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, and upper tract urothelial carcinoma).

Accreditation

The Endourology and Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery Fellowship is accredited through the Endourological Society for an advanced clinical training certificate for combined endourology and laparoscopic/robotic surgery.

Certification

A one-year Advanced Clinical Training Certificate is awarded by the Endourological Society at completion of the program.

Program history

This fellowship began at Mayo Clinic in 2013. Typically, one fellow is accepted into the program annually.