Fellowships
NIH/NLM Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Training Program | ACGME Clinical Informatics Fellowship | Postdoctoral Biomedical Informatics Fellowship at the VA | IMPAACT Fellowship | Yale-Boehringer Ingelheim Biomedical Data Science Fellowship Program | |
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Students | Postdocs and predocs | MDs Only | Postdocs | Postdocs | Postdocs |
Director | Edward Melnick, MD, MHS | Anthony J. Lisi, DC | |||
Funding | NIH, NLM | Departmental, VA | VA | NCMIC Foundation | Boehringer Ingelheim Grant |
Duration | 2 years (Optional 3rd year) | 2 Years | 2 years (Optional 3rd year) | 2 Years | 3 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 | 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
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1. PhD degree in the area of, computational biology, bioinformatics, data science, or relevant scientific disciplines, as well as excellent computing skills
2.Foreign students can apply |
Activities | Project-focused research | Defined rotations | Project-focused research | Project-focused health policy activities | Yale and Boehringer Ingelheim joint research |
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 | 1. Application form
2. Current CV 3. Project proposal that includes a detailed research plan (no more than two pages) 4. Statement of how the Program aligns with your educational and career goals (800 words limit) |
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. | 40 hrs/wk non-clinical effort required. |
Focus | Bioinformatics, translational informatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics | Clinical informatics | Clinical informatics, public health informatics | Clinical informatics, health policy informatics | Biomedical Data Science, computational biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics |