Rotation schedule

Clinical Informatics Fellowship rotations are divided into four-week blocks. A typical rotation schedule includes:

Rotation descriptions

Orientation

Introductions, tours, and general onboarding logistics are covered. The rotation includes dedicated time to complete institutional and departmental required training.

Leadership and Management

Aimed at developing critical leadership and management skills with an underlying focus on systems-based practice, this structured course is a requirement for all Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology trainees.

Information Fundamentals

Provides an introduction to the terminology, concepts, theories, and skills used within clinical informatics and information systems.

Information Systems I

Deals with the application of information fundamentals through evaluation of information life cycles, assessment of usability, determination of budgets, and risk analysis.

Information Systems II

Covers the progression of responsibility from Information Systems I: integration of teams, industry and application teams, implementation teams, and departmental teams.

Clinical Decision Making and Care Process Improvement

Goes over principles of clinical decision support and assessment of information system infrastructure. Engagement with a quality improvement project is included.

Informatics Directorship

You serve as an acting director of informatics and are immersed in specialty certification experience and research projects. While in this role, you lead, manage, teach, consult, and serve as a liaison for industry and application, enterprise, and implementation teams.

Didactic training

Training provided by a multidisciplinary faculty team covering all aspects of education, including fundamentals, clinical decision support, conferences, seminars, visiting professors with Clinical Informatics Grand Rounds, internal and external online training modules, and Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCaTS) courses offered through Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Research training

The wealth of clinical informatics materials at Mayo Clinic offers opportunities for research projects. Mayo Clinic researchers collaborate with large, active clinical and research groups in all subspecialty areas.

The completion of a minimum of one peer-reviewed publication and one national presentation resulting from work completed during the fellowship is required.

Teaching opportunities

Mayo Clinic is committed to the education and training of its entire staff and all trainees. During the fellowship, you have opportunities to assist in the training of pathology residents and deliver formal lectures to colleagues, allied health professionals and students.

Evaluation

Performance is monitored carefully throughout the Clinical Informatics Fellowship to confirm that you acquire adequate knowledge and develop the appropriate technical skills to meet program expectations. You are formally evaluated by supervising faculty members and meet with the program director to review these evaluations and discuss professional growth on a regular basis. In addition, you evaluate the faculty to ensure that your educational needs are being met.

Evaluations assess competence in the following areas:

• Patient care
• Medical knowledge
• Professionalism
• Systems-based practice
• Practice-based learning and improvement
• Interpersonal and communication skills