Why Choose Mayo Medical School?

Why Choose Mayo Medical School?
Once you've decided to take the responsibility for the well-being and health of patients, deciding on which medical school to help you achieve your goal is extremely important. Mayo Medical School (MMS) differentiates itself in all areas of medical teaching, including:

• Visionary medical school curriculum - MMS offers a state-of-the-art curriculum immediately applicable to preeminent patient care, biomedical research, and scholarly academic medicine. The MMS curriculum is best tailored to prepare students for the challenges of 21st century patient care.
• Selectives - An exclusive component offered to our first and second year students, a Selective is a short, flexible, enrichment experience of a student's choosing that is interspersed between course blocks. Selectives expand subject offerings, encourage self-directed learning, and renew curiosity while complementing the major themes of the MMS curriculum.
• Small class size - Small class sizes and high faculty-to-student ratio are hallmarks of MMS education fostering effective learning and lifelong professional and personal relationships.
• World-class faculty - Mayo Clinic's physician faculty members are passionate about teaching, about educating a new generation of health care leaders, and about supporting the lifelong success of their students.
• Diverse medical practice exposure - MMS students will experience advanced medical practices and a broad diversity of patients and diseases.
• Leaders in scientific disciplines and technologies - MMS enables students to work with the most current and comprehensive scientific disciplines and technologies.
• Generous Financial Aid - MMS's financial aid program makes obtaining the finest medical education affordable to all qualified candidates.

As a Mayo medical student, you'll be a respected member of a world-class health care team and obtain the skills necessary to become a successful, fulfilled, healer and health advocate as witnessed by the success of our students.

Student Success

• Ninety-five percent of Mayo fourth-year students report matching with one of their top three residency choices.
• The Mayo Medical School student graduation rate is 100 percent.
• Several Mayo medical students have been honored with appointments to special training experiences, such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute - National Institutes of Health Cloisters Program.
• More than 85 percent of the students at Mayo Medical School received named scholarships, which provide significant tuition assistance.
• Eighty percent of student research manuscripts are published - more than twice the national average.

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