The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is one of the largest clinical laboratories in the world. It is composed of more than 3,200 people working in 40 specialty laboratories performing more than 20 million tests a year. The department receives specimens for testing from Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System and is a reference laboratory for other clinics and hospitals both nationally and internationally.

Additional departments and divisions also participate in the Clinical Informatics Fellowship, including anesthesiology, critical care medicine, laboratory medicine, and Mayo Clinic Laboratories, which has a large and extensive test catalog for reference testing. There are strong working relationships between the departments that generate a large breadth and volume of cases available to you as a fellow and provide numerous opportunities for informatics-based research and education.

Faculty

In addition to caring for patients in clinical practices, Mayo Clinic's faculty is committed to teaching and facilitating the growth of medical knowledge. Many of our faculty members have published and lectured extensively and are highly regarded in their fields.

Faculty at Mayo Clinic includes more than 100 full- and part-time experts in clinical informatics, as well as a program director certified by the American Board of Pathology and board-certified in clinical informatics. The faculty offers expertise in diverse areas of clinical informatics, including imaging informatics, electronic medical records, bioinformatics, clinical decision support, health information systems, and change management.

Mayo Clinic has a strong history of producing capable graduates who excel in patient care, research, and education and significantly contribute to the future of the specialty.

Advisers and mentors

Faculty advisers are available to provide comprehensive educational advice and personal support. You meet with your adviser periodically throughout the program to review your progress and career goals, and ensure that your educational needs are being met. Also, your adviser may serve as a contact point for introducing you and your family to Rochester, Minnesota, and the Mayo Clinic system.

Visiting professors

Many prominent professors visit Mayo Clinic each year. They present their work during lectures, participate in hospital rounds and have informal discussions with trainees. You are encouraged to take full advantage of these educational opportunities.

Program Faculty

From the Program Director

Thank you for your interest in our Clinical Informatics fellowship program at Mayo Clinic!  Clinical informatics is a relatively new subspecialty for physicians but has been an integral part of the practice since the advent of computers.  In modern clinical practice, clinical information systems and ancillary software applications have a central role in the care we deliver to patients along every point of their healthcare journey.  As such, physicians who receive specialty training in technology, data science, and project management have the distinct opportunity to serve critical roles in the development, enhancement, and implementation of new and improved healthcare informatics offerings for providers and patients alike.

Clinical Informatics fellowships in the United States have their own unique curriculum and training approaches because technology is so rapidly evolving, and the domain of clinical informatics is so broad.  Our fellows have the opportunity to learn from expert staff in our Mayo Clinic Platform, Department of Artificial Intelligence & Informatics, Center for Digital Health, and our Department’s Division of Computational Pathology & Informatics.  As such, our fellows train with leaders across Mayo Clinic and experience unprecedented breadth and depth of clinical informatics activities across a large national healthcare organization.

The first year of our fellowship is comprised of structured 2-4 week rotations across a wide range of clinical informatics topics like IT Fundamentals; Networks; Data Governance; Data Security; Data Curation; Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence; Digital Products and Platforms; Clinical Decision Support; System Evaluation; Project Management; IT Architecture; as well as computer programming and Epic Builder training to develop a broad clinical informatics foundation.  The second year of the program is a Directorship Year in which fellows serve as the leader for 2-3 projects. This individualized education allows our fellow to pursue topics of clinical interest in domains where they wish to deepen their clinical informatics expertise. 

The Clinical Informatics fellowship is hosted by the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and accepts trainees from a wide variety of training backgrounds. Prior trainees of the program have come from pathology, internal medicine, family medicine, and emergency medicine.  Fellows will be board-eligible for Clinical Informatics from the American Board of Pathology or American Board of Preventative Medicine upon successful completion of our ACGME-accredited fellowship. 

Not only am I the current program director but I was also the first trainee to complete this training program.  As such, I can personally attest to the quality of our training program and the myriad of opportunities available to trainees upon completion. Our team would love to discuss our fellowship with you further in how it could align with your ultimate medical career goals. Please do not hesitate to contact us!

Justin Juskewitch, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Director