Medical Education at Mayo Clinic (Mayo Medical School)

Incorporating professionalism into medical education: the Mayo Clinic experience.

Professionalism is a core competency of physicians. In this article, the statements of professional societies (e.g., the Charter on Medical Professionalism), the expectations of patients and society regarding professionalism, and a framework for defining medical professionalism are described. The framework's foundation consists of clinical competence, communication skills, and a sound understan...

The founding of the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education.

The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (hereafter the Mayo Foundation), the precursor to the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, was incorporated in 1915. The Mayo Foundation, which was affiliated with the University of Minnesota Graduate School, aimed to establish a higher standard for training medical specialists. Together, the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Found...

Intracranial meningiomas: experiences at the Mayo Clinic.

18 to 20, 1978. On June 1, 1885, Francesco Durante, professor of clinical surgery at the University of Rome, performed the first successful operation for an intracranial tumor when he removed a pre dominantly unilateral meningioma of the left olfactory groove. This procedure followed the celebrated Bennett-Godlee case, which resulted in a fatality, by only 6 months.' If we were to designate an ...

The first anesthetizers at the Mayo Clinic.

Mayo Clinic Papers, 1912

subject within the available space. The first two hundred odd pages contain many and varied papers on subjects connected with The Alimentary Canal. In making mention of two only, namely, one on " The Diagnostic Worth of the Glycyltryptopban and Tryptophan Tests in Diseases of the Stomach," and the other on "Intestinal Diverticula," it is evident that, in the variety offered for perusal in this ...