Admissions

Positions:

There are 35 to 45 positions in the Clinical Research Training Program each year on a competitive basis for faculty and trainees employed at Mayo Clinic.

Qualifications:

To be eligible to apply to the Clinical Research Training Program, you must define and participate in a clinical research project. For the purpose of this initiative, clinical research is defined as all aspects and kinds of clinical research, including epidemiologic and natural history studies, translational research, patient-oriented research, clinical trials and outcomes research.

Clinical research embraces a spectrum of scientific disciplines (e.g., epidemiology, biostatistics, pharmacology, biology and psychology), methodologies (e.g., observational, experimental), health professions (e.g., radiology, nursing, dentistry, clinical psychology), and specialties and subspecialties (e.g., internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, cardiology, nephrology and others).

Other qualifications for the program include:

• A doctoral-level degree in a discipline that can be applied to clinical research. These degrees include, but are not limited to, the M.D., D.P.H., D.O., D.D.S., D.M.D., O.D., D.C., Pharm.D., Ph.D., Psy.D., as well as biostatisticians, epidemiologists, behavioral scientists, and nurses with doctoral degrees. Preference will be given to applicants documenting a doctoral GPA of greater than 3.0.
• A current appointment at Mayo Clinic as a clinical fellow, research fellow, research associate or clinical staff category. Visiting clinicians, research trainees and special project associates are not eligible.
• An appointment of sufficient length to allow for completion of all requirements of the program which is documented at the time of application.
• Identification of an investigator at Mayo Clinic with extensive clinical research experience who is willing to serve as your mentor.

Note: No more than 50 percent of the course work taken prior to admission to the Certificate or Master’s Degree program can be transferred into the program.

Program Cost:

A program fee will be assessed at the time of admission to the Clinical Research Training Program. This fee is nonrefundable.

• Certificate Program: $3,500
• Master’s Degree: $7,000

The application form requires a posting account unit to be charged, the name and signature of the appropriate administrator, and the name and signature of the authorizing division/department chair. The posting account unit will be charged the fee on the date of admission to the program.