Mayo Clinic's Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship consists of one year of clinical training, one year of research, and a final year of clinical training and research combined.

Clinical training

During the first 12 months of the fellowship, you help care for outpatients with endocrine and metabolic diseases under the supervision of faculty.

You will have a half-day of continuity clinic each week. Additionally, you will see patients in the general pediatric endocrine clinic and in the following subspecialty endocrine clinics:

• Metabolic bone clinic
• Transgender and intersex specialty care clinic
• Thyroid nodule and thyroid cancer clinic
• Diabetes clinic
• Brain tumor clinic
• Turner syndrome clinic
• Adrenoleukodystrophy clinic
• Weight management and bariatric surgery clinic
• Lipid clinic

The subspecialty clinics are multidisciplinary and the health care team for patients in these clinics includes experts in clinical genomics, endocrine and bariatric surgery, neuro-oncology, orthopedic surgery, psychology, social work, and others.

You will also have ample exposure to inpatient pediatric endocrine consultations.

In the second year, your clinical training involves a half-day of continuity clinic each week seeing pediatric endocrine patients and one weekend a month of inpatient pediatric consultations.

Your final year of training includes continuation of continuity clinic in addition to providing the inpatient pediatric endocrine consultations one week every three weeks.

The clinical and research time during the third year is tailored to the individual needs/career goals of each trainee.

Rotation schedule

A typical rotation schedule:

During the research rotations in your second and third years of training, you continue to spend a half day each week in a pediatric endocrinology continuity clinic.

Didactic training

Regularly scheduled didactic courses, seminars, and case conferences enhance your clinical experience. The fellowship includes these events:

• Pediatric endocrine didactic conference and journal club (Monday)
• Pediatric endocrine case conference (Tuesday)
• Endocrine Grand Rounds (Wednesday)
• Pediatric Grand Rounds (Friday)
• Pediatric subspecialty fellow lecture series covering both clinical and research topics (monthly)
• Joint pediatric and adult endocrine conferences (Thursday)

Research training

At least 12 months of your fellowship are spent doing mentored clinical, translational, or laboratory-based research programs.

The second year of the fellowship is devoted entirely to research with one afternoon each week set aside for your continuity clinic and one weekend a month in the inpatient setting.

During the third year, your training in terms of time spent in research is individualized to your career plans.

You have the option to take graduate-level courses in statistics, epidemiology, and research up to including a postdoctoral certificate or a postdoctoral master's degree in clinical and translational science offered by the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCaTS) in collaboration with Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. 

Read more about the Postdoctoral Certificate Program's eligibility requirements, application process, and curriculum.

Call frequency

There is no in-house call. During the first year, pediatric endocrine fellows are on call with one of the pediatric endocrine consultants every third week. While on call, we function as a consulting service, giving recommendations to primary pediatric teams.

There is one weekend of call a month during the second year.

During the third year, fellows have greater responsibility for pediatric endocrine inpatients with increasing autonomy and are on call one out of every three weeks.

Teaching opportunities

The subspecialty requirements from the American Board of Pediatrics require that fellows not only receive formal instruction in adult learning methods, but also have opportunities to teach in a variety of settings, from web-based teaching to large groups.

During your three years in the Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship, pediatric endocrine fellows get numerous opportunities to teach medical students and pediatric residents.

Training in quality improvement

You will lead a quality project during the second or third year of your fellowship with supervision from a pediatric endocrine faculty member.

Most fellow projects in the past have earned silver or gold certification in quality improvement from the Mayo Clinic Quality Academy.

Presentations at national conferences

Mayo Clinic fellows enjoy generous supported travel benefits and are encouraged to travel and present their research at multiple national conferences.

Additionally, you may travel to attend one national meeting during your fellowship.