The Clinical Informatics Center facilitates collaboration, mentoring, and networking opportunities for the entire UT Southwestern community.

Master of Science in Health Informatics

Learn more about our Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) program at UT Southwestern that will enhance learners' academic experiences and better prepare them for the technological shifts happening in health care. The two-year master’s degree program is administered through the School of Health Professions.

Fellowship Program in Clinical Informatics

UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Fellowship Program in Clinical Informatics is a 2-year program open to physicians who are board-certified or board-eligible in one of the ABMS primary specialties. Through didactic and rotational training, fellows will be prepared to pass the board exam for the Clinical Informatics subspecialty and be a practicing informatician in academic, healthcare, and industry.

The Clinical Informatics Program has robust group of board-certified physician informaticians available to mentor and guide fellows. Fellows will be exposed to a variety of settings and informatics subspecialties including pediatric, pathology, imaging, and laboratory informatics.

Faculty and fellows conduct informatics research across the breadth of biomedicine, including research in clinical informatics, bioinformatics (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.), pharmacogenomics, translational informatics, personalized medicine, clinical decision support, and computational informatics.

Fellows will rotate in four sites including Parkland Memorial Health, UT Southwestern, the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and in the Children's Medical Center Dallas and will be exposed to two EHR vendors systems (VistA, Epic).

For more information about the program, please visit the program website.

Enrichment Elective

The Clinical Informatics Center sponsors an Enrichment Elective in Clinical Informatics in Medicine in the fall semester for the UT Southwestern Medical School. Medical students learn about the field of Clinical Informatics by:

• Introducing them to key leaders at UT Southwestern
• Walking them through the process of model development
• Discussing key challenges in the field

MD Student Informatics Interest Group

The MD student Informatics Interest Group meets monthly. The mission of this group is to introduce medical students to the field of clinical informatics and biomedical informatics. It aims to:

• Increase overall awareness to the field of informatics
• Promote faculty and mentor relationships
• Connect students with national and local organizations, conferences, symposiums, and hackathons

To achieve these goals, the group will host talks, provide networking opportunities to engage with faculty and mentors, and facilitate participation to attend national conferences.