The fellowship provides a wide range of didactic training, including:

• Daily interactions with transplant nephrologists and transplant surgeons
• Monthly Transplant Grand Rounds conferences with formal presentations on all aspects of transplantation from internal faculty and many visiting external faculty
• Transplantation core curriculum lectures, which is a series of multidisciplinary lectures given by Mayo Clinic faculty that covers basic science and clinical topics relevant to transplantation
• Monthly renal biopsy conferences with presentation and discussion of transplant and native kidney biopsies by renal pathology and nephrology groups
• Journal club presented by fellows
• Monthly morbidity and mortality conferences to discuss cases from the kidney-pancreas and liver transplant hospital services
• Research conferences
• Support for travel to the American Society of Transplantation fellows' symposium and for presentation of research projects at one major transplant-related conference