Clinical Informatics Fellowship

Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is pleased to offer 2-year ACGME accredited Clinical Informatics Fellowship positions through MetroHealth’s Center for Clinical Informatics Research and Education.  Our fellowship is unique in that it has 3 sites —Cleveland Clinic, The MetroHealth System, and University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Based at MetroHealth, this fellowship exposes fellows to informatics opportunities at Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth, and University Hospitals of Cleveland. Fellowship positions are open to physicians who will have completed a residency prior to starting the fellowship.

The MetroHealth System is a unique place to participate in a Clinical Informatics Fellowship because MetroHealth was the first public healthcare system to install the Epic electronic health record, starting in 1999. It was also the first public healthcare system with Epic to achieve the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 7 (highest) in all of its hospitals and ambulatory clinics in 2014 (revalidated in 2017, 2020 and 2023).

Currently the MetroHealth System is in the top 1% nationally of healthcare systems in terms of implementation and use of the EHR based on HIMSS data. In a 2021 KLAS Arch collaborative survey of physicians and nurses, the MetroHealth Epic EHR implementation was in the 97th percentile of all EHR implementations in the US.

Cleveland Clinic is also a longstanding Epic customer, going live in 2002. University Hospitals of Cleveland transitioned to the Epic electronic health record in 2023.

The fellowship is designed to provide physicians with clinical informatics training and experience to complement their clinical training. The fellowship is ideally suited to help prepare trainees to be board-eligible in Clinical Informatics.

Our fellowship is intended to prepare practicing medical professionals for careers in applied clinical informatics where they would continue their clinical work along with non-clinical roles administering, developing, implementing, and using health information technology systems.

Sample of the two-year schedule

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A number of characteristics makes the CWRU Clinical Informatics fellowship unique.
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Application Timeline for Fellows

Please submit an application through the AAMC’s Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS). The site provides up-to-date information on the ERAS application process.

All interviews will be held virtually. 

Additional Information

• Sampling of current clinical informatics team projects
• Summary presentations by recent graduates
• Center for Clinical Informatics Research and Informatics publications
• Types of work our informaticists do

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Contact the Program Coordinator or David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACP, FAMIA, FACMI, Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Director