Clinical Informatics Fellowship

The UCI School of Medicine offers a two-year fellowship program hosted by the Department of Emergency Medicine, preparing applicants for certification in the subspecialty of clinical informatics. This multidisciplinary fellowship involves collaboration with faculty from internal medicine, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, CHOC and Information Services.

The program is open only to graduates of an ACGME-accredited, an AOA-approved, or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)-accredited or College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)-accredited residency programs who are board-certified or board-eligible physicians.

The fellowship goal is to create leaders in the field of clinical informatics with a strong background in the fundamentals of information technology, change management and process improvement. With this education, the fellow will develop the skill set required to assess workflow needs, recommend process and technical solutions for a given challenge, and implement information technology tools to facilitate the proposed solution.

During the fellowship, the trainee will develop and implement technology-based workflow solutions, which capitalize on the core competency of clinical informatics. Upon successful completion of the two-year program, fellows will be eligible for board certification in clinical informatics. The program’s educational experiences will consist of rotations, didactic sessions, an independent longitudinal research project and ongoing practice in the fellow’s primary clinical specialty.

Starting late July/early August, we will be accepting applications for positions beginning the following July 1. Applications must be submitted through the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) as part of the July application cycle.

Applications must be completed/submitted via ERAS by

Friday, September 30, 2024.

Applicants must successfully complete a residency in an ABMS-participating specialty by June 2025 and must be either board-certified or board-eligible at the time of application. Visit The American Board of Preventive Medicine for current/full details of board requirements.

Interviews are generally held in the late summer/early fall. Interviews will be conducted by fellowship faculty, fellows and department chairs.

All interviews must be held remotely, even if the candidate lives locally. This policy aligns with guidance provided by the Coalition for Physician Accountability, which is composed of key national medical educational stakeholders, such as the American Board of Medical Specialties, LCME, AAMC, AMA and the ACGME.

The UCI School of Medicine supports this approach because we must consider applicants' safety and well-being, physical restrictions and financial barriers to travel, and shifting shelter-in-place orders. To promote an equitable selection process, all applicants should have the same.

To promote an equitable and transparent selection program, the UC GME Offices and UCI Clinical Informatics Fellowship program support the AAMC recommendation to use a virtual interview format for the current recruitment season.*

• All University of California medical residency and fellowship programs that function under the Office of GME must conduct only virtual interviews for all selected applicants during the 2024-2025 academic year.
• Any in-person visits or “second looks” may be completed only after the program completes all virtual interviews and “locks” the rank order list (ROL). Even if the “locking” option is not yet offered by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) or other online system used for the trainee selection process, the program must still make all efforts to comply. Rank order lists should not be altered after any applicants’ in-person visits.
• Applicants will not be required to travel. In-person visits will not influence the programs’ rank order lists.
• Hybrid interviewing (a combination of virtual and in-person interviews in the same year or program) is not permitted because of the risk of inequities resulting from applicants’ different resources and abilities to visit in person.
• Programs must share their interview process with applicants as early as possible in the selection cycle to minimize applicant stress and optimize transparency.

*Please contact the fellowship coordinator for current information regarding the interview season; see the email below.

The UCI Clinical Informatics Fellowship participates in the American Medical Informatics Association’s Match Day, which is typically hosted during the second week of December. Visit the AMIA website for more details.