Program Overview

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 medical residency or fellowship prior to enrolling into the fellowship and will be board-eligible or certified in their specialty. Residents or fellows who have a planned two-year research year built into their program can reach out to the program directors to discuss if they may be eligible for this program. Fellows with an interest in learning computer programing and/or code based computational analysis or with formal training in computer science, engineering, statistics or mathematics are 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.

Mission Statement

To train clinicians from all specialties in the art and science of clinical informatics to be compassionate and effective leaders in the field.

Program Aims

  1. The primary site is a large medical center offering informatics experiences from primary care to complex quaternary services
  2. The program will leverage its rural environment to encourage thinking surrounding care challenges and leveraging technology in rural settings
  3. Fellows will be trained to become electronic health record physician builders with the opportunity to build new informatics solutions in the test environment and partner with analysts to move them to production
  4. Fellows will be provided ample time to develop a clinical project and research portfolio where they perform their own data analysis with a publication expectation at the end of the fellowship and the opportunity to attend and present at clinical informatics conferences
  5. Our medical center provides a collaborative environment with computer and data scientists to enable the fellow to have the necessary resources needed to be a successful informatician
  6. Fellows will have rotations with direct interactions with hospital leaders including the Chief Health Information Officer

Objectives

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.

National professional organization for physician-informatics fellows and alumni