Dr. Tyler Janitz, a 2023 graduate of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, has been named Chief Resident for the 2025–26 academic year at Mayo Clinic Florida’s Family Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Janitz is currently completing his second year of residency and said training at Mayo Clinic has been an invaluable experience.
“I’m very blessed to be able to work and train here every day,” Dr. Janitz said. “Mayo Clinic is first-class in patient care and medical innovation. I truly feel I am getting some of the best medical training and experience in the world.”
In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Janitz has distinguished himself in research. He was named “PGY-1 Researcher of the Year” for the 2023–24 academic year and is on pace to receive the award again in 2024–25.
“I have done my best to take a huge bite out of the apple and have been a part of numerous research articles, projects, case studies, and publications,” Dr. Janitz said. “Most recently, I’ve had work published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.”
At Mayo Clinic, Dr. Janitz also founded an osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) interest group and helped establish a new OMT clinic within the Family Medicine Department. The initiative includes regular resident-led lectures and training workshops.
“This was a passion project of mine and something I really wanted to start up during my time here at Mayo,” Dr. Janitz said. “Hopefully soon we will become an osteopathically recognized residency program with this newly established curriculum and clinic.”
Dr. Janitz plans to pursue a fellowship in primary care sports medicine and eventually enter academic medicine, where he hopes to balance outpatient care, sports medicine, hospital medicine, teaching, and research. He is also under consideration to receive an assistant professor academic rank at Mayo Clinic.
He credits Burrell College with giving him the foundation he needed to succeed.
“I can confidently say I was very well prepared for residency after my time at Burrell College,” Dr. Janitz said. “The academic and clinical faculty were amazing, and I felt like I was part of a family within the medical school and community.”
To current Burrell College students, Dr. Janitz offers advice grounded in his own experience.
“Stay the course,” Dr. Janitz said. “Take it one day, one lecture, one patient encounter at a time. Enjoy the race. Enjoy the process. Embrace the struggle. Learn to love learning. One day you’ll look back and realize it was all worth it.”
