Clinical training

The Mood Fellowship is designed to complement your background and to provide more focused and in-depth training in your chosen substantive specialty practice area. You are provided with rigorous training in the detailed assessment and targeted treatment of patients with complex or refractory mood disorders. You develop new skills — or hone your existing ones — in clinical research of mood disorders.

• Mayo Clinic Depression Center is well-positioned to deliver such a comprehensive educational experience.
• All depression center consultants are nationally and internationally recognized experts in the assessment and treatment of unipolar and bipolar spectrum mood disorders, including perinatal depressive and anxiety disorders.
• The depression center is rich with expertise in quality of life measures in depression, diagnosis and treatment for psychosomatic aspects of depression, biomarker development and validation epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology, neuromodulatory treatments including deep brain stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation, genetics, epigenetics, and molecular neuropharmacology.
• Nearly all depression center faculty have funded research programs.
• This backdrop provides a rich training environment for aspiring clinicians who also wish to engage in research.

Mayo Clinic's Mood Fellowship can be tailored to your specific needs and goals. After completing this fellowship, you will be prepared to pursue a cutting-edge career in academic, clinical or research fields.

Pathways

The Mood Fellowship offers three pathways depending on your background:

1. Clinical Psychiatry
2. Clinical Psychology
3. Research

Each pathway offers experiences that are specific to that track.

Moonlighting

If you are enrolled in the clinical pathway for psychiatrists, you may moonlight with program director approval. Moonlighting should not interfere with the required learning and must not violate the work-hour rules of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or visa regulations.

Didactic training

Conferences, scheduled weekly from noon to 1 p.m., include:

• Tuesday. Mayo Clinic Depression Center sponsors clinical discussions.
• Wednesday. At the weekly Psychiatry and Psychology Grand Rounds, you are given the opportunity to make presentations.
• Friday. You will be expected to present at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology Chair's Conference.

Research training

You participate in interdisciplinary conferences at Mayo Clinic and nationally. In addition, you have abundant opportunities for research and manuscript preparation.

Teaching opportunities

Opportunities are available for you to teach rotating residents and medical students.

Evaluation

To ensure that you acquire adequate knowledge and develop the appropriate technical skills to meet program expectations, your performance is monitored carefully during the Mood Fellowship. You are formally evaluated by supervising faculty members on a regular basis and meet with the program director to review these evaluations. In addition, you regularly evaluate the faculty to confirm that your educational needs are being met.