Ready to shape the future of healthcare through innovative data science? The AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellowship Match is your gateway to a dynamic career at the intersection of medicine and technology.
Designed for clinicians eager to lead digital transformation in healthcare, this centralized match process connects you with top-tier, ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics fellowship programs across the U.S. Hosted by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the Match ensures a fair, transparent, and efficient pathway to join a growing community of informatics leaders.
Whether you're passionate about improving patient outcomes, optimizing health systems, or driving research through data, your journey in leading health informatics starts here.
A Clinical Informatics Fellowship is more than just a credential—it's a launchpad for clinicians ready to lead the digital transformation of healthcare. As the demand for data-driven decision-making and health IT leadership grows, completing an ACGME-accredited fellowship in clinical informatics positions you at the forefront of innovation. Whether you're passionate about improving patient outcomes, optimizing electronic health records, or shaping the future of digital health, this fellowship equips you with the tools, experience, and network to make a lasting impact.
Graduates pursue roles in academic medicine, health tech startups, government agencies, and healthcare systems—often bridging clinical and technical domains.
Gain real-world exposure to EHR optimization, clinical decision support, data analytics, interoperability, and emerging technologies like AI and machine learning.
Completing a fellowship is your first step toward board certification in Clinical Informatics through the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) or American Board of Pathology (ABP)—a requirement for new diplomates after 2025.
Fellows are trained to lead clinical transformation initiatives, manage health IT projects, and drive innovation in hospitals, health systems, and beyond.
Join a vibrant community of over 5,600 informatics professionals through the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), with opportunities for mentorship, collaboration, lifelong learning, and national recognition.
Ensure the programs you consider are leading in the field of health informatics. Review a list of nearly all available programs curated and vetted by the American Medical Informatics Association, the founding and flagship professional organization for health informatics. All programs listed are members of AMIA’s Academic Forum, reflecting the diversity of informatics research and the practice of translational bioinformatics, clinical research, consumer, clinical, and public health informatics.
Get Started
There’s a specific, annual process to match with a clinical informatics fellowship. Here’s a high-level overview of how the process works each year. Consult the timeline below for this year’s deadlines.
Join AMIA.
A current AMIA membership is required to apply for any clinical informatics fellowship. A significantly discounted student membership rate is available.
April: Register for ERAS.
ERAS is the system used to collect application materials from applicants and provide them to programs. Setting up your profile in ERAS is a distinct step from submitting your application.
Early June: Submit your application in ERAS.
This is the general application for fellowships; application to specific programs comes later. Meeting this June deadline is required to be eligible to submit to specific fellowships later.
July: Apply to accredited Clinical Informatics fellowships.
It’s time to apply to specific programs of your choosing. A robust list of AMIA Academic Forum programs is available to all AMIA members.
Summer/Fall: Program interviews take place.
These are managed fully by individual programs.
Mid-December: Match Day!
Those who match to a fellowship are contacted by programs on this day. Watch ERAS for the specific date each year.
Late-December: Secondary Match.
If you didn’t match the first time, you may have another opportunity. Be sure your ERAS profile remains updated.
Clinical Informatics is transforming how care is delivered. AMIA’s Match connects you with leading fellowship programs, giving you the opportunity to drive innovation, improve patient outcomes, and lead change across the healthcare system.
Clinical Informatics training is unique in that fellows can come from any clinical specialty. In addition, many programs have funding constraints that must be considered in the match process. While attempts were made to join the NRMP, San Francisco Match and others, ultimately AMIA was the only group willing to invest in developing a match system for clinical informatics.
The AMIA match is based on the same underlying "Stable Marriage" algorithm as the NRMP match, with some additional features to support the funding constraints of CI programs. Like the NRMP, the AMIA match preferentially favors applicants so that they can match with the highest possible program on their list.
Though we are confident in the match algorithm on its own, because the Clinical Informatics match is still relatively small, we are able to perform an audit to ensure the results are accurate. This audit is performed by two independent individuals after all the applicant and program rank lists have been submitted, but before the results are posted.
Applicants must be a current Student Member/Regular Member of AMIA to participate in the match.
Membership includes access to the match plus full AMIA benefits. The Student Membership fee is $50 and there is no additional fee for the match.
All programs/institutions must be a member of the Academic Forum Program to participate in the match.
