The Neuroradiology Fellowship provides an opportunity for state-of-the-art radiology clinical and research training at the fellowship level. The clinical rotations are high in volume and include purely procedural, purely diagnostic, and mixed procedural and diagnostic rotations.

Rotation schedule

Approximate clinical rotation lengths are:

Electives 2.0

For fellows in good academic standing, we have developed several additional elective options to tailor your experience to your educational needs and career aspirations. These electives will be tied together with work done before and after your rotation in order to optimize your elective time.

Current options include:

• Neuroradiology advanced imaging lab (NAIL): The NAIL program develops new technology into clinical practice, including in-house and vended technological solutions. Examples include auto-protocoling, automatic MIP cutting, operational AI, and automated tractography.
• Advanced imaging research at the Opus lab: Take part in cutting-edge imaging research, including in the fields of dementia, neurodegeneration, and normal pressure hydrocephalus.
• 3D Lab/Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality: Develop a project with Mayo Clinic’s state-of-the art 3D lab or develop training modules with our VR and AR partners.
• Entrepreneurship: Work with our entrepreneurship team to develop and foster your business acumen. 

Didactic training

A strength of the Neuroradiology Fellowship is the one-on-one learning, with case-by-case real-time feedback from supervising staff neuroradiologists. In addition, you receive education in multiple other venues:

• Fellow lecture series. Neuroradiology staff give fellows one-hour lectures on a wide spectrum of neuroradiology topics one to two times per week.
• Multidisciplinary conferences. Fellows rotate through presenting cases at the weekly interdisciplinary conferences with each fellow covering five months of conferences. These include head and neck oncology (Tuesday mornings), epilepsy (Thursday mornings), and adult neuro-oncology (Friday mornings). They are also required to attend weekly pediatric neuro-oncology conferences (Monday afternoons) and biweekly pediatric neurology/neurosurgery conferences (Tuesdays over the noon hour).
• Resident lecture series. Fellows rotate through presenting cases at the weekly interdisciplinary conferences. These include head and neck oncology, epilepsy, and adult neuro-oncology. Fellows also attend weekly pediatric neuro-oncology conferences and biweekly pediatric neurology/neurosurgery conferences.
• Journal club. Held four times in the academic year, journal club allows each fellow the opportunity to present their analysis of a staff-chosen journal article.
• Guest lectures/visiting professorships. Subspecialty talks pertaining to neuroradiology.

Teaching opportunities

As a fellow, you will deepen your own learning by educating Mayo radiology residents, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine students, and visiting students at the workstation through daily clinical work. Additional responsibilities include:

• Resident teaching sessions. Occurring every Friday morning, fellows take turns giving hour-long case-based teaching sessions in our trainee library to the radiology residents and visiting students rotating through neuroradiology.
• Fellow lectures. Each fellow will give a formal one-hour long didactic lecture during the academic year on a neuroradiology topic of their choice for the resident noon lecture series.