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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) Clinical Informatics Fellowship is an ACGME-accredited, two-year program designed to train the next generation of clinical informaticists and health care informatics leaders. Our unique program combines robust educational and hands-on training experiences at both a world-renowned academic medical center and one of the largest freestanding children’s hospitals in the country. The goal of our program is to provide our graduates with the wide range of knowledge and skills needed to be successful practitioners in the field of clinical informatics as well as future leaders in health care organizations, academic medical centers, government and industry. Applicants do not need to have formal training in Computer Science or a related discipline.
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More about the Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Under the guidance of our expert faculty, fellows have numerous opportunities to participate in existing projects or initiating their own. They receive Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) human subjects research and institutional review board training early in the program and throughout the two years, learn key elements to successful research, including IRB procedures, grantsmanship and statistical analysis. Prior to graduation, each fellow is expected to complete at least one research or quality improvement project leading to national presentation or publication.
Notable Recent Publications
Lloyd JK, Ahrens EA, Clark D, Dachenhaus T, Nuss KE. Automating a Manual Sepsis Screening Tool in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Appl Clin Informatics. 2018 Oct;9(4):803-808. Epub 2018 Oct 31.
Epic Systems, Corp. Essential Program
Ahrens EA, Nuss KE. Pediatric Sepsis Models. Epic Systems, Corp. Verona, WI.
Publication Date: 2019 August
Description: Use a set of three models created by Nationwide Children’s Hospital to detect and treat sepsis in pediatric patients earlier in both inpatient and emergency departments.
Significance: Epic Systems, Corp., adopted the Nationwide Children’s Hospital informatics build into their foundation system as Best Practice for organizations who want to deploy tools for inpatient sepsis screening.
Wang Z, Lee JA, Lin S, Sun H. Rationalizing Medical Relation Prediction from Corpus-level Statistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, accepted 2020.
Laio, N., Allen, K., Bode, R., Kasick, R., Lee, JA, Ramachandran, S., Guliz, E. Pediatric Inpatient Problem List Review and Accuracy Improvement. Hospital Pediatrics, accepted 2020.
Chaparro, J, Hussain C, Hehmeyer J, Ngyuen MJ, Lee JA, Hoffman J. AMIA CIC 2019: Reducing Intrusive Alert Burden Using Quality Improvement Methodology. Appl Clin Informatics 2020 Jan;11(1):46-58
Sezgin E, Noritz G, Elek A, Conkol K, Rust S, Bailey M, Strouse R, Chandawarkar A, von Sadovszky V, Lin S, Huang Y, Capturing At-Home Health and Care Information for Children With Medical Complexity Using Voice Interactive Technologies: Multi-Stakeholder Viewpoint. J Med Internet Res 2020;22(2):e14202
Hebert C, Root ED. Repurposing Geographic Information Systems for Routine Hospital Infection Control. Adv Health Care Manag. 2019;18:10.
McHaney-Lindstrom M, Hebert C, Flaherty J, Mangino JE, Moffatt-Bruce S, Dowling Root E. Analysis of intra-hospital transfers and hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection. J Hosp Infect. 2018 Aug 30.
Yu S, Lai A M, Smyer J, Flaherty J, Mangino J, McAlearney A, Yen P, Moffatt-Bruce S, Hebert C. Novel Visualizations of Clostridium difficile Infections in Intensive Care Units. ACI Open. 2019; 03(02): e71-e77
Otto L, Wang A, Wheeler KK, Shi J, Groner JI, Haley KJ, Nuss KE, Xiang H. Comparison of Manual and Machine Assigned Injury Severity Scores. Inj Prev. 2020 Aug;26(4):330-333. Epub 2019 Jul 12. PMID: 31300467
Shi J, Shen J, Zhu M, Wheeler KK, Lu B, Kenney B, Nuss KE, Xiang H. A New Weighted Injury Severity Scoring System: Better Predictive Power for Adult Trauma Mortality. Injury Epidemiol. 2019 Sep 23;6:40. PMID: 31559123
Ziemba K, Kumar R, Nuss KE, Estrada M, Lin A, Ayad O. Clinical Decision Support Tools and a Standardized Order Set enhances enteral nutrition in Critically-Ill Children. Nutrition in Clinical Practice. 2019 Dec; 34(6):916-921. PMID: 30932259
Nuss KE, Kunar JS, Ahrens EA. Plan-Do-Study-Act Methodology: Refining an Inpatient Pediatric Sepsis Screening Process. Pediatr Qual Saf. 2020 Sep 2;5(5):e338. 2020 Sep-Oct. PMID: 33062902
Stang CRT, Jaggi P, Tansmore J, Parson K, Nuss KE, et al. Implementation of a Pharmacist-Driven Antimicrobial Time-Out for Medical-Surgery Services in an Academic Pediatric Hospital. The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Publication expected 2021.
Attipoe S, Huang Y, Schweikhart S, Rust S, Hoffman J, Lin S. “Factors Associated With Electronic Health Record Usage Among Primary Care Physicians After Hours: Retrospective Cohort Study”, Journal of Medical Internet Research Human Factors. 2019 Sep 30;6(3):e13779. PMID: 31573912
Mezoff EA, Minneci PC, Hoyt RR, Hoffman JM. “Toward an Electronic Health Record Leveraged to Learn from Every Complex Patient Encounter: Health Informatics Considerations with Pediatric Intestinal Rehabilitation as a Model”, Journal of Pediatrics. 2019 Dec;215:257-263. PMID: 31570156
Gorham T, Rust S, Rust L, Kuehn S, Yang J, Lin J, Hoffman J, Huang Y, Lin S, McClead R, Brilli R, Bode R, Maa T. “The Vitals Risk Index - Retrospective Performance Analysis of an Automated and Objective Pediatric Early Warning System”, Pediatric Quality and Safety. 2020 Mar 20;5(2):e271. PMID: 32426637
Sezgin E, Noritz G, Hoffman J, Huang Y. “A Medical Translation Assistant for Non–English-Speaking Caregivers of Children With Special Health Care Needs: Proposal for a Scalable and Interoperable Mobile App”, Journal of Medical Internet Research Protocols. 2020 Oct;9(10):e21038. PMID: 33051177
Nowak A, Dooley D, Mitchell-Royston L, Rust S, Hoffman J, Chen D, Merryman B, Wright R, Casamassimo P. “A Predictive Model for Primary Care Providers to Identify Children at Greatest Risk for Early Childhood Caries”, Pediatric Dentistry. 2020 Nov/Dec;42(6):450-6. PMID: 33369556
Perry MF, Melvin JE, Kasick RT, Kersey KE, Scherzer DJ, Kamboj MK, Gajarski RJ, Noritz GH, Bode RS, Novak KJ, Bennett BL, Hill ID, Hoffman JM, McClead RE. “The Diagnostic Error Index: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Identify and Measure Diagnostic Errors”, Journal of Pediatrics. 2020 Dec 7:S0022-3476(20)31477-3. PMID: 33301784
In addition to the formal QI coursework at Nationwide Children's Hospital, CI fellows will be involved in a multitude of patient safety and quality projects. Both the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children's have a culture of quality and safety as a part of their mission and strategic plan.
Nationwide Children’s has been a national leader in improving patient safety and the first children’s hospital to describe and publicly aspire to a goal of zero preventable harm with the Zero Hero program. Learn more
Becker’s Hospital Review named The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to its 2020 list of “100 Great Hospitals in America” for our strong history of innovation, top-notch patient care and leadership in clinical advancement that is backed by our forward-thinking research. The hospitals included on this list are recognized nationally for excellence in clinical care, patient outcomes and staff and physician satisfaction and are considered a vital part of the community. Learn more
Some of the past projects that have been spearheaded by our CI faculty at Nationwide Children's have included deploying a sepsis risk screening tool in our an emergency and inpatient departments, early recognition of patients at risk for clinical deterioration with a watch-stander dashboard, decision support for controlled substance prescription drug monitoring program, to name a few.
Eligibility
- Applicants must have graduated from an appropriately licensed medical school located in the United States or Canada, or from a school located elsewhere that is approved by ABPM
- Applicants must have successfully completed an ACGME-accredited residency and be board-certified (or eligible) in an ABMS specialty prior to starting fellowship
- Applicants must be eligible for an unrestricted or training license from the Ohio State Board of Medicine
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, or possess a current J-1 visa
How to Apply
Applications are accepted between June and October through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) and interviews are held on a rolling basis after July 15th. Clinical informatics fellowship programs do not currently participate in NRMP (National Resident Match Program). Instead, all programs participate in a coordinated match process that occurs in mid-December for the following academic year.
Application must include:
- Current CV
- Personal statement
- Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE)
- Medical school transcript
- Three letters of reference (one from a current or past training program director)
- USMLE and/or COMLEX scores
- Recent photograph (for identification purposes only)
For questions, please contact:
Jennifer Kingjennifer.king2@nationwidechildrenshospital.org
614-355-3703
Our Approach
Our graduates are set up for success.
We have designed our program to equip graduates with the knowledge and skills they will need to be successful no matter their ultimate career destination, whether it be in clinical practice, leadership, government or industry. Our fellows work directly with a diverse group of physician informaticists, operational and health IT leaders, clinical and business analysts, and clinical end users to acquire a deep working knowledge of key health information technologies, workflows and methods used within the clinical setting across the continuum of patient care and related administrative activities. All this through a combination of practical hands-on work, focused didactics and guided self-exploration.
During the two-year program, fellows will be exposed to a wide range of informatics topics, including:
- clinical documentation
- orders management
- clinical decision support
- population health management
- quality improvement and patient safety
- information privacy and security
- revenue cycle and health finance
- data reporting, analytics and data science
- pathology, imaging and pharmacy informatics
- systems infrastructure and interoperability
- change and project management
- end-user education, training and support
Our fellows also enjoy at least six months of electives to explore these areas in more depth, to engage in additional quality improvement or research activities, and to gain experience in a specialized informatics domain.
Fellow Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Academic funds
- Opportunities for independent practice (as available)
- Full medical, vision, dental, long-term disability and life insurance coverage