Respiratory therapy, Bachelor

As a respiratory therapy student at Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences, your training will take you beyond the textbook and into the clinic, wherein as little as two weeks; you will gain hands-on experience with a wide variety of respiratory conditions and care procedures using state-of-the-art technology.

Prepared with introductory topics such as patient assessment, aerosol therapy, chest X-ray interpretation, and oxygen therapy, our students continue to develop as they learn and practice:

Adult critical care — intensive care unit and emergency room

Airway management — bag-mask ventilation and intubation

Asthma case management

Diagnostic procedures — pulmonary function testing, bronchoscopy, hemodynamic monitoring, and polysomnography

Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation

Mechanical ventilator management

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) case management

Pediatric and neonatal critical care — intensive care and emergency room

Hemodynamic monitoring

Patient assessment, oxygen administration, nebulizer therapy, and chest physical therapy

Smoking cessation

Lung health counselling

Newborn and pediatric critical care

Research study design

As a student, you will start working with patients and applying your skills in the fourth week of the program. You will graduate with nearly 1,400 hours of hands-on clinical experience and practice.