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 There are 126 U.S. medical schools from which to choose, so why should you
select MMS?
Our first answer: Because just one of the 126 medical schools, Mayo Medical School, is at the forefront of a visionary medical school curriculum reform effort tailored to prepare you for the challenges of 21st century patient care. The result: MMS offers you the best educational fit in terms of your outstanding intellectual abilities, high ideals, compelling service ethic, compassionate world view and commitment to making a difference.
Our second answer: Real-world relevance. MMS curriculum is immediately applicable to the best possible patient care, biomedical research and scholarly academic medicine. Our curriculum prioritizes:
- Physician leadership in both clinical practice and health care policy
- Immersion clinical experience in closely mentored patient contacts
- Bioethical expertise across practice and research disciplines
- Basic science and clinical research opportunities with world-class scientific investigators in facilities supported by the most advanced technologies available anywhere
- Self-care as the basis of the best patient care, which is why you’ll see us place a premium on you getting enough sleep, having time to reflect, socialize, renew. We are committed to helping you grow healthfully and happily into skillful problem solvers, healers and health advocates.
All these experiences ultimately come down to one word: patients. Mayo offers a culture of continual improvement because patients need and deserve it. The result: At MMS, each student has early, extensive, mentored patient interaction - and it continues throughout medical school. This unrivaled access to clinical mentors and patient care gives students greater opportunities to develop patient-care skills prior to residency, as well as exposure to different medical specialties, which helps focus career choices. Rotations through research labs give students another perspective on patient care: approaching disease conditions at the molecular level and devising new treatments for them.
Other key advantages of attending MMS include:
- MMS’s leadership in the newest scientific disciplines and technologies; including pharmacogenomics, proteomics, nanotechnology, molecular medicine, diagnostic imaging; position us to offer our students the most current and comprehensive scientific grounding for medical education.
- Small class size, and high faculty-to-student ratio favor more effective learning. These two hallmarks of MMS education also foster lifelong professional and personal relationships that support growth and development.
- MMS exposes students to advanced medical practices and a broad diversity of patients and diseases. Combined, these clinical assets give students intimate experience with state-of-the-art clinical knowledge as applied to the full spectrum of medicine.
- Success in any medical practice setting. By learning and applying the Mayo Model of Care, which integrates clinical practice, biomedical research and lifelong education, you’ll be well prepared to succeed in any medical practice setting, from private practice, to academic medicine, to global outreach health care.
- As a Mayo medical student, you’ll be a respected member of a world-class health care team. An integral sense of creative, collaborative teamwork and respect permeates all aspects of Mayo’s clinical, biomedical research and educational activities. This mindset and practice are central to Mayo’s integrity and effectiveness in medicine.
- Access to vast clinical and research resources of Mayo Clinic, and its extensive health care system. MMS is arguably without peers in terms of the easy access students have to a wealth of intellectual, technological, and biological research resources.
- Passionate mentors, colleagues, friends. Mayo’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.
- Exceptional financial aid. MMS’s financial aid program makes obtaining the finest medical education affordable to all qualified candidates.
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