About the Program

The clinical informatics fellowship is a two-year program designed to train physicians interested in hands-on and didactic training in clinical informatics principles and tools.

Fellows will have completed training in a primary specialty prior to enrolling into the fellowship and will be board-eligible or certified. They will also be required to have had some previous training or exposure to computer programing and/or code based computational analysis with formal training in computer science, engineering, statistics or mathematics preferred. The fellows will be expected to complete a scholarly project and quality improvement project prior to graduation with the expectation that they will present or publish a minimum of two academic work products.
Educational objectives include:

1. Provide shadowing, educational, and supervised practice experiences that will produce well-balanced physicians who are clinical informatics leaders in not only their specialty but also in their institution as a whole.
2. Training to evaluate, design, and implement a clinical informatics solution to real-world healthcare problems and use evidenced-based informatics and clinical research tools to monitor and measure the impact of their solution.
3. Teaching foundational skills in clinical and health information technology as well as observational or hands-on opportunities to learn about the methods and tools that greatly impact healthcare such as mobile health, reporting, and analytics.
4. Developing educational, leadership, business management, innovation, and change management skills through required presentations, projects, and collaborations.