How can I get good emergency medicine training at a place that only sees zebras?
“The Mayo Clinic is a referral center for all of southeast Minnesota, southwest Wisconsin and northern Iowa, and, yes, many parts of the rest of the world. It is also the primary caregiver for all of southeast Minnesota. This is deep farm country – the breadbasket of the Midwest. The majority of what we see are bread and butter complaints from patients from local and surrounding rural communities. The zebras only drop in a minority of the time.” – 3rd Year Resident “Instead of 1 percent zebras, Mayo might see 3 percent. Enough to be interesting, but still pretty rare.” – 2nd Year Resident “Most of the emergency medicine patients come from Rochester or the surrounding communities. Mixed in with the normal patient population, are the individuals that are in Rochester to be worked up by the clinic but not as inpatients. They sometimes present to the Emergency Department with worsening symptoms of their conditions or new emergencies that must be treated in the context of their existing con
