Mayo Clinic School of Grad Med Educ-MN

I think most small programs 2 or fewer reisdents/class tend to take primarily away rotators/fellows not just Mayo AZ, however mayo AZ especially isnt worth it unless you did a research fellowship with them. Sinai also as you said, but they are a big program just with tons of fellows that are essentially guaranteed a spot. UCLA also past years has also taken primarily research fellows. Programs that heavily favor away rotators tend to be NYC programs, especially cornell. Texas programs tend to primarily recruit from texas schools or away rotators with texas connections. USF primarily takes those with regional connections. CWRU usually takes home students and their own research fellows. Wouldnt even bother with the Larkin programs unless you have no other choice and can pay for a spot. Hopefully this is helpful, will try to add more if I think of any

i think this is all good info but if your mentor has connecs and advocates for u, can still get interview w/o rotating/RY

Texas programs will take Texans that went to medical school outside of the state (got interviews at every Texas school I applied to and did medical school in another state - am Texan)

NYU

I've heard places with a good track record of matching mohs include univ florida, univ arizona, Mayo, U Miami, UTSW

geisinger and iowa. geisinger has lots of mohs and one of the best mohs matching track rates. Iowa does a lot of mohs as well and has a very strong program

also Cincinnati and they always keep their own residents as fellow

hopkins, there was one year 3-4 ppl matched mohs from one class

the surgical training is pretty bad there though. But good job to that one year!

already released from mayo AZ

Has anyone heard from FL location?

I just got offered an away today (7/2/2026) at Mayo Clinic in Arizona for 10/5-10/30; is anyone willing to switch for the month of august, september, or november? please message me: 7029373142

yes

mayo roch is great, but living in rochester is a hard sell for anyone. Most people I know rank mayo roch lower purely due to location (Assuming they have other academic program options in better cities). The other mayos are a bit more community program based (more so mayo jax) and very small residencies which may make division of call a bit harder. Much better locations for the other mayos.

Harvard

USC

Even more important than rotation mills are programs that only take their own research fellows. While rotation mills will still interview and match a percentage of their rotators (with variability between programs), programs that only take their research fellows will rotate and interview many of their rotators, but ultimately offer little to no chance of matching for those outside their fellows.

what programs do this besides sinai

what programs do this besides sinai, Mayo AZ

Rotating, signaling, and interviewing at these programs is a waste of time and is performative; they already know who they plan to take for the upcoming cycle

WashU

very true. Do NOT waste your time at Mayo AZ or Sinai. UConn also (at least this year). CWRU as well is a major rotation mill people need to talk more about

UCONN

Penn

Wake

CWRU

northwestern

Every other year uconn has taken a lot of their away rotators, including all their current residents.

i will give u perspective as someone who strongly considered mayo for med school - it is small-knit community and if you want to stay in mayo system, it will be easier to find job (MN/FL/AZ)

did you interview?? lol it would be apparent if you did

your own ma, best travel fund for research, graduated autonomy (like actually), culture is actually wonderful, ai scribe, digital path, all fellowships and they support their own

is this for all mayo programs or just for mayo rochester

my b. Mostly Rochester only I believe

Jacksonville also has the financial conference benefits, and a super nice hospital

AZ does also, all three sites have the same salary/benefits

Whered u interview is the real question for this

UCSF has 30k!

Penn, Columbia >Mayo has tons of support, UCSD also has robust fertility benefits (I think 20-30k)

are fertility benefits mainly egg freezing or do they are include IVF?

i think both

a handful of programs ive interviewed at have had this. so nice to see!

Is there a way to see the fertility specific coverage in a plan or did the programs specifically highlight it as a benefit? would love to know which programs have coverage!

highly sought after by DO applicants < nah not anymore

why no mayo az ranks then

honestly seems like a great program, just small residency size

how small? any tea?

2 residents per year. because of this, you do take call each year of training, but volume seems very manageable and the 2027 match will have 3 residents so call getting decreased

its so safe you wont see anyone except a bear

as a POC in MN I can say that I generally feel safe,w ith what's going on right now the activity is certainly more concentrated in different areas of town, but what i will say is MN really looks after their neighbors and community so they've helped me to feel right at home but we're all a lil shook rn tbh lol (also, this isn't just a MN specific problem ) >Just don't try to run ICE over with your car and you'll be fine -7 >I disagree with the last comment, u won't be fine, the most recent news is really disturbing

ok i saw what you posted underneath adding more im sorry i took that as a moment for a joke

if your joke was the one about seeing a bear, you're fine lol

yes i got one

this year??

they are memeing. Mayo doesn't do this lmfao

not memeing. I got a call. I also did an away which might place me in a different category

damn bro is the flex worth doxxing yourself to the potential mayo lurkers

which location

is this person trolling >yes

Rochester said they will not be reaching out to anyone, so highly doubt its Rochester if this person is even being truthful

can also say pretty confidently its not AZ

honestly worst interview experience so far. Wonder how much this is reflective of the program culture as a whole and them being on a high horse just because they are Harvard>nah bro dont tease. what was the question

pls spill tea

no one is here to share the questions, why are people even asking lol

it was just tough

there are no more interviews, why does it matter if people share the questions? Also people are gonna ask if you post about it

oh no :( i'm scared now there's one more group

lol seeing this while in the interview waiting room. RIP

we got this

Will check in EOB for the tea. But to everyone interviewing, you got this!! You’ve worked insanely hard, and if you’re interviewing, you have a good shot at matching

it's tough for everyone, stay positive!

They're so weird FR

was thinking the whole time wow these are my people lol

The questions were just really odd, specific behavioral ones. Every single one of them was a question I had never been asked / haven't been asked since and I've had a good number of derm interviews so far. Just kind of threw you off and you end up rambling. Probably was their goal so i guess they achieved it. But the questions weren't like unprofessional or anything

Agreed with the left, they were specific where you couldn't really fit your prepped examples to the question, so you're left trying to come up with an example on the fly. Sometimes I felt like I didn't really have a good example that would make for a reasonable story

if you thought harvard was bad you shouldve seen mayo MN

perfectly stated!!

ok i'm n = 1 but i disagree with this one i don't think it's odd specific behavioral but maybe i've had some overlapping interview q's. also the attendings are good vibes

i blacked out for mine. i remember the first and last room

it's my dream to blackout these memories but instead im haunted by the memories of the regrettable nonsense i shared

I rambled so much and half the time didn't answer the actual question :/

some i literally did not even give a story, they got me.

BUT YOU STILL TRIED

for the past like 3 months i've been talking with my BF/GF about stuff related to this dang journey and how i've been processing some of the more difficult things that happened, and legit about 4 of the questions' answers just came from those discussions. those questions were HARD though but the attendings were so nice that you didn't feel like you did badly lol

i did both, and hope to never think of them again

omg was Mayo worse than this because I thought Harvard's was brutal

personally thought harvard was worse but might be recency bias

I thought mayo was way worse, questions felt like the hunger games and at least harvard people were nice after you answered the question

You are more likely to die in Baltimore than Rochester? Baltimore is butt cheeks so I'd prefer Rochester (I'm for SoCal too)

I spent a summer in Rochester and its a very small, tight knit city. not much to do but it feels pretty safe

Rochester is great for raising a family, good Suburbs, cute downtown, safe, and mayo is a literal gorgeous Cush hospital all connected by skyways and subways so you don't have to walk in the cold to get around most times (they didn't interview me but 100/100 times I'd pick roch and mayo over Baltimore/hopkins no comparison)

wait how likely to die and where like i feel like i'm a poor judge of the safety of baltimore. it's near the bottom of my RL right now antyway

you're not going to die in baltimore it's not that bad, but robberies happen and you need to be vigilant walking around

some of you guys never lived in a city and it shows lmfao. all cities have safe and not safe part of the city. same for baltimore

The level of unsafeness in Baltimore is wildly exaggerated by people who have never lived there. The best thing about Rochester is that Minneapolis is 2hrs away.

like what

all behavioral just confirming wht other posters said below

yessss ugh

they are known annually for being tough. you gotta come ready

POOP

how lol