The Baylor Scott & White Clinical Informatics fellowship is a two-year ACGME-accredited fellowship program designed to provide a practical experience in clinical informatics, accompanied by excellent didactics and by strong faculty and administrative support.
Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) is the largest not-for-profit health system in Texas, serving much of the Austin, Temple, Waco, Dallas, and Fort Worth metropolitan areas. The fellowship program is based in Round Rock, TX, a suburb within the booming Austin, TX metropolitan area. The program includes graduate coursework in biomedical informatics.
The fellowship is intended to provide physicians with skills and experience important for leadership roles such as Chief Medical Information Officer, Chief Health Information Officer, or Chief Laboratory Information Officer.
The fellowship is open to residency graduates from any specialty who will be board eligible or board certified prior to beginning fellowship training. Upon completion of the program, fellows will become eligible for board certification in Clinical Informatics. Fellows may have the opportunity to combine training in Clinical Informatics with another specialty fellowship offered at Baylor Scott & White.
As the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United States, Baylor Scott & White serves 41 counties through 52 hospitals, more than 1,200 access points, more than 7,100 active physicians, more than 52,000 team members and the Baylor Scott & White Health Plan.
Curriculum
About the program
Over the course of the fellowship, fellows will complete informatics rotations that embed fellows within a variety of informatics teams at BSWH. Under the guidance of program faculty, fellows will learn and apply informatics skills in the complex business and clinical environment of a large health care system. Fellows will take ownership of meaningful informatics projects and will have the opportunity to participate in the evaluation, design, and implementation of health information technologies. Fellows will be required to pursue one or more academic research project(s), the results of which will be disseminated through publication or presentation at academic or professional conferences.
The fellowship includes fully funded enrollment in the Oregon Health and Science University clinical informatics graduate certificate program, a comprehensive didactic curriculum tailored for health care professionals.
Fellows will be encouraged to remain active in their primary specialty, up to 20% of the time, during their fellowship. This clinical experience is designed to be flexible and will be tailored to each fellow’s career goals and interests.
Activities
Clinical informatics core activities
The clinical informatics core activities permit fellows to maintain longitudinal involvement with ongoing clinical informatics initiatives, in addition to their current rotation focus. For example, fellows will participate in interdisciplinary IT planning and implementation meetings pertaining to long-term projects and will maintain involvement in informatics leadership via interdisciplinary committee participation.
Focused rotations
During focused rotations, fellows focus their work and learning efforts on specific subdomains of clinical informatics.
Investigación
Fellows will be oriented to the ongoing areas of clinical informatics research at BSWH. Before or during the outset of the research rotation blocks, fellows will be introduced to program faculty conducting informatics-related research and will work with the Program Director to select a mentor and to design a project that complements the fellow’s interests and career goals. The research project is considered a “capstone” experience for the fellowship, and fellows will be expected to submit their work for presentation or publication in an academic setting.
Elective
Fellows will work with the Program Director to design customized rotations where they can further pursue their individual informatics-related interests and career goals. Fellows may elect to repeat any existing rotation or can work with program faculty to design specialized rotations in any area of informatics available at BSWH.
Capstone
The clinical informatics fellowship capstone is intended to be a substantial scholarly, clinical, or educational project that serves as a culminating experience of fellowship training and that is intended to advance each fellow’s career goals. A primary aim of the rotation is to give each fellow the experience of “ownership” of a real-world informatics project. Each fellow has the freedom to define and execute their own project, subject to review for feasibility and appropriateness by the rotation director. Fellows will have the responsibility to identify resources, address barriers, set timelines, and carry their project forward as independently as possible.
OHSU Clinical Informatics Graduate Certificate Program
During the course of the fellowship, each fellow will complete an online graduate certificate in Clinical Informatics from OHSU or from an equivalent training program. This graduate certificate program has been designed around the ACGME Clinical Informatics Milestones.
Journal club
Fellows will have primary responsibility for organizing and presenting a scholarly article from the informatics literature at a recuring journal club conducted through the Baylor Scott and White Informatics Consortium.
Teaching conference presentations
Fellows will be required to prepare and deliver a series of basic clinical informatics lectures to trainees in other graduate medical education programs in the institution.
Clinical practice
Fellows may maintain up to 20% FTE practice in their primary clinical specialty throughout the fellowship. The Program Director will work with the fellow and with clinical departments to find an acceptable schedule and practice setting.
Other activities
Fellows will be provided numerous other educational opportunities. Examples include Epic Physician Builder training and access to third-party lectures or seminars on informatics topics.
Sample schedule
| Month | Site | Rotation | Longitudinal activities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R | Introduction to Clinical Informatics | OHSU, CP |
| 2 | R | Laboratory Informatics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 3 | R | Laboratory Informatics | OHSU, CP, JC, TC, CICA |
| 4 | R | Bioinformatics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 5 | R | Bioinformatics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 6 | R | Ambulatory Informatics | OHSU, CP, JC, TC, CICA |
| 7 | R | Ambulatory Informatics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 8 | R | Information Systems | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 9 | R | Information Systems | OHSU, CP, JC, TC, CICA |
| 10 | R | Emergency Medicine Informatics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 11 | R | Emergency Medicine Informatics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 12 | R, T | Elective | OHSU, CP, JC, TC, CICA |
| 13 | R | Healthcare Analytics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 14 | R | Healthcare Analytics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 15 | R, T | Capstone | OHSU, CP, JC, TC, CICA |
| 16 | R | Liderazgo | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 17 | R | Inpatient Informatics | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 18 | R | Inpatient Informatics | OHSU, CP, JC, TC, CICA |
| 19 | R, T | Elective | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 20 | R, T | Capstone | OHSU, CP, JC, CICA |
| 21 | R, T | Elective | OHSU, CP, JC, TC, CICA |
| Key | |
|---|---|
| R | Baylor Scott & Centro Médico Blanco - Round Rock |
| T | Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Templo |
| OHSU | Oregon Health & Science University graduate certificate program |
| CP | clinical practice |
| CICA | clinical informatics core activities |
| JC | informatics journal club |
| TC | teaching conference presentation |
How to apply
We use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) to electronically accept fellowship applications, letters of recommendations, dean’s letters, transcripts and other credentials directly from your medical school.
Application requirements
- Completed an ACGME-accredited residency program prior to fellowship enrollment
- Medical school transcript (certified English translation if from non-US institution)
- Three letters of recommendation
- Personal statement describing the applicant’s interest, experience and career goals in clinical informatics
- Curriculum vitae
- USMLE transcript
Interested applicants are encouraged to directly contact the Program Administrator(s). Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, and interviews are generally offered between September and November.
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Working at Baylor Scott & White Health
Stipend and benefits
In addition to competitive stipends, we offer our residents a full menu of employee benefits. We help offset the cost of many of these benefits; others are options you can choose to pay for yourself.
Well-being resources
This time in your professional career can be extremely challenging. As a Baylor Scott & White graduate medical trainee, there are a variety of resources available to you, ensuring you get the most out of your educational experience.
Life in Greater Austin
As one of America’s fastest growing cities, Round Rock in the Greater Austin area offers an array of cultural, culinary and outdoor experiences. The metropolitan also consistently ranks as one of the best places to live.
Contáctanos
Bryan Nguyen
Program Administrator
Bryan.Nguyen@BSWHealth.org
Baylor Scott and White Medical Center – Austin-Round Rock
Baylor Scott & White Health
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Baylor Scott & White Medical Center -
Round Rock
300 University Blvd.
Roca redonda, tx 78665