Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program receives ACGME accreditation
UTHealth Houston has received ACGME accreditation for a new Clinical Informatic Fellowship Program, to be housed within McGovern Medical School’s Department of Internal Medicine.
“We are excited to be approved by the ACGME,” said Elmer Bernstam, MD. “This fellowship brings together the resources of three major clinical institutions: UTHealth Houston, the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Hermann Hospital, with the academic resources of the UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics.”
The CIFP aims to adapt and extend existing educational resources to ensure trainees acquire fundamental and applied informatics knowledge and skills. Trainees will experience the development, analysis, optimization, and innovation of clinical information systems and users and enable lifelong learning, scholarship, innovation, and leadership in applied informatics.
“The CI Fellowship program will empower the next generations of physicians to be on the front line of data science and health IT innovation,” said Meera Subash, MD, associate program director. “We are very excited to welcome our new fellows to our unique training environment here at UTHealth Houston.”
Students will take courses at the UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics while serving clinical rotations at UTHealth Houston, Memorial Hermann Health System, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Rotations through the three institutions will expose fellows to multiple EHR systems and informatics approaches, and fellows will spend 20% of their time in clinical practice within their primary specialty. The fellowship curriculum will consist of courses, seminars, mentorship, research projects, and operational projects at all three sites.
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The Clinical Informatics Fellowship is open to physicians who have successfully completed an ACGME-accredited residency program and are board-certified or board-eligible in their primary specialty at the fellowship start date and eligible for a Texas medical license. International medical graduates who have trained in an ACGME-accredited residency program and have a J-1 (not H-1B) visa with at least two remaining years of eligibility may also apply.
The Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Director is Elmer Bernstam, MD, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Reynolds and Reynolds Professor in Clinical Informatics at the UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics; and the associate program director is Meera Subash, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Rheumatology and UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics.