Academic Enrichment Programs
Mayo Medical School (MMS) offers five categories of academic enrichment opportunities. They are designed for medical students who are interested in augmenting their medical education with additional specialty training and dual-degree experiences. In most cases, MMS can help arrange funding and scholarships.
Academic enrichment experiences include:
- Dual-degree opportunities enable students to obtain a cross-disciplinary professional degree in addition to their Mayo M.D. degree. These include; but are not limited to:
- Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), (M.D.-Ph.D.)
- M.D./J.D. (law) with the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). Read a student profile.
- Mayo/M.P.H., with the University of Minnesota, Rochester.
- Students may explore dual-degrees in any discipline, in collaboration with the faculty advisor.
- Clinical rotations at Mayo Clinic sites in Florida and Arizona.
- Hoffman Service Residencies to underserved areas of the country for third- and fourth-year students. To learn more, read about two participants and an excerpt from the journal of Esther Rodriguez and Aaron Krych.
- M.S. Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP)
- Research at National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
How it works
To make this work, MMS designs flexibility into its curriculum and calendar year so we can accommodate each student's educational needs and interests. For example, students may take one leave of absence during the four years of MMS to study and work on the campuses of our partner institutions. Through careful consultation with MMS faculty, students develop an individualized academic plan in which a portion of their MMS coursework fulfills credit-hour requirements in the second professional degree program.
Time Advantage of Dual Degree
A combined degree program necessarily extends the time spent in school. But with MMS's distinct advantage of coordinated curriculum and careful coursework selection, it is possible to get two degrees more quickly in the MMS integrated dual-degree programs than if the degrees were pursued separately and sequentially.
For example, an M.D. program normally requires four years of full-time study. A J.D. law program normally requires three years of full-time study. Mayo's combined M.D.-J.D. program is a synergistic meld of both academic tracks in which the students spread their learning of medicine and law over six years - thus compressing the academic commitment by one year. They study both at the Rochester Mayo campus, and in Tempe, Ariz. at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. To get a sense of this experience, meet Brian Wilhelmi.
Admission Requirements
When a separate professional degree is involved at an institution other than Mayo - such as Juris Doctor (J.D., for lawyers); Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) or Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) - medical students must take the qualifying entrance exams for that degree and be accepted into the program. Upon completion of the degree work at the partner institution's campus, students receive a separate diploma from the partner institution, in addition to the M.D. diploma from Mayo Medical School.
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