The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) and Division of Bioinformatics (DBMI), Department of Medicine, seek outstanding applicants for fellowship training in Clinical Informatics (CI). The Clinical Informatics fellowship is a 2-year ACGME-accredited program. While the DEM hosts the fellowship, we accept applicants from all specialties having completed an ACGME-accredited residency. While completing the fellowship program, the candidate is able to clinically practice in their primary board specialty. We have created a unique partnership with DBMI such that our Clinical Informatics fellows have the opportunity to collaborate with National Library of Medicine (NLM) biomedical informatics research fellows to form a research/clinical dyad to study large data sets and operational workflows.
UCSD is a national leader in the field of health information technology (IT) and innovation. UCSD Health has been recognized with a highest-level HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 designation; earlier in 2024, UCSD was awarded a Most Wired Level 10 designation as well. The Department of Emergency Medicine has an established record with extramural funding from the NIH, the RWJ Foundation, a $15.3M Beacon Community grant from the National Coordinator for Health IT, and more recently an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) $9.5M grant for cybersecurity. The DBMI is home to an NIH-funded National Center of Biomedical Computing and has an NLM grant to support training in a variety of areas including health care and clinical research informatics, translational bioinformatics, and public health informatics. UCSD has a strong presence with artificial intelligence (AI) with the Center for Health Innovation (CHI), where fellows can participate in projects and investigate the many facets of AI implementation in the healthcare space. In addition, there is strong collaboration between the UCSD School of Medicine, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering (one of the nation's top ranked engineering schools), and the Qualcomm Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology located at UCSD. We also have strong ties to the Veteran's Health Administration health services research unit located on campus.
The successful applicant will have a strong clinical background and interest in pursuing a career in clinical informatics and health IT. In addition, fellows will have the opportunity to work as faculty physicians in UCSD's ambulatory, inpatient or Emergency Departments based on their primary specialty. UCSD is known for its Level 1 Trauma Center, the only regional Burn Center, a Joint Commission-designated Center of Excellence for Stroke, and high-quality programs for STEMI and ECMO.
The DEM has a well-established four-year EM residency program and robust fellowship programs in Toxicology, Hyperbaric Medicine, Pediatric EM, EMS, Ultrasound, and Research. Advanced degrees, including Masters in Advanced Studies, and opportunities to pursue a doctoral program are also separately available, although typically not pursued within the 2-year CI fellowship. The goal of the fellowship is to develop outstanding active operational clinical leaders with expertise in informatics and health IT.