Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Biomedical Informatics and Data Science is a discipline at the intersection of biomedicine, computer science, and the information sciences. For the field of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science to continue to flourish as an academic discipline, it is essential that there be a growing pool of trained researchers to help academic medical centers and universities (as well as non-academic centers and industry) establish new programs in Biomedical Informatics and strengthen existing programs.

There are three informatics training programs primarily based in the Yale Center for Medical Informatics. The NIH/NLM Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Training Program supports both postdocs and predocs, the ACGME Clinical Informatics Fellowship supports Board Certified Physicians, and the VA Advanced Informatics Fellowships funds postdocs.

+Comparison of NIH Research Fellowship, ACGME Clinical Informatics Fellowship and VA Special Informatics Fellowship

	NIH/NLM Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Training Program (Postdocs/Predocs)	ACGME Clinical Informatics Fellowship (MDs Only)	VA Special Informatics Fellowship (Postdocs)
Director	Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH	Edward Melnick, MD, MHS	Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH Amy Justice, MD, PhD Julie Womack, PhD
Funding	NIH, NLM	Departmental, VA	VA
Stipend	Calculated from NIH norms based on PGY	Calculated from NIH norms based on PGY	Calculated from NIH norms based on PGY
Duration	2 years (Optional 3^rd year)	2 years	2 years (Optional 3^rd year)
Degree	Master of Health Sciences or Masters Computational Bioinformatics (required if not already trained in BMI)	MHS Optional
Eligible for Board Certification	No	Yes	No
Eligibility	1. US citizen or green card holder 2. Postdoc in health-related field (or predoc in computational biology/bioinformatics)	1. MDs only 2. BC/BE in any ABMS specialty	1. US citizen 2. Postdoc in health-related field
Classes	MHS requirements + electives	Coursework relevant to Core Content for the specialty	MHS requirements + electives
Activities	Project-focused research	Defined rotations	Project-focused research
Application	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
Focus	Bioinformatics, translational informatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics	Clinical informatics	Clinical informatics, public health informatics