Fellowships

Attribute	NIH/NLM Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Training Program	ACGME Clinical Informatics Fellowship	Postdoctoral Biomedical Informatics Fellowship at the VA	IMPAACT Fellowship
Students	Postdocs and predocs	MDs Only	Postdocs	Postdocs
Director	Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH Mark Gerstein, PhD	Edward Melnick, MD, MHS	Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH Amy Justice, MD, PhD Julie Womack, PhD	Anthony J. Lisi, DC
Funding	NIH, NLM	Departmental, VA	VA	NCMIC Foundation
Duration	2 years (Optional 3rd year)	2 Years	2 years (Optional 3rd year)	2 Years
Degree	Master of Health Sciences or Masters Computational Bioinformatics (required if not already trained in BMI)	MHS Optional		MPH
Eligible for Board Certification	No	Yes	No	No
Eligibility	1. US citizen or green card holder	1. Licensed physicians 2. BC/BE in any ABMS specialty	1. US citizen	1. US Citizen 2. Licensed chiropractors
Activities	Project-focused research	Defined rotations	Project-focused research	Project-focused health policy activities
Application	CV, personal statement + 3 letters of reference	CV, personal statement + 3 letters of reference	CV, personal statement + 3 letters of reference	CV, personal statement + 3 letters of reference
Clinical Time	40 hrs/wk non-clinical effort required. Moonlighting permitted thereafter	Fellows are encouraged to maintain primary specialty certification subject to 80 duty hrs limits	40 hrs/wk non-clinical effort required. Moonlighting permitted thereafter	4 hrs/wk clinical effort at VA Connecticut West Haven required.
Focus	Bioinformatics, translational informatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics	Clinical informatics	Clinical informatics, public health informatics	Clinical informatics, health policy informatics