Clinical Informatics related Question

[DRBrothers]

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I thought Clinical Informatics Fellowship is a pathology thing, but it appears to be independent and open to every specialty. Anyone knows what differentiates an informatics program run in pathology department vs, say, pediatrics department? Do we pathology trained have any advantage?

 

[LoaLoa]

I thought Clinical Informatics Fellowship is a pathology thing, but it appears to be independent and open to every specialty. Anyone knows what differentiates an informatics program run in pathology department vs, say, pediatrics department? Do we pathology trained have any advantage?

CI boards are administered through ABP and ABPM. Theoretically, the training requirements are identical for pathologists and non-pathologists. Practically, most pathologist informaticists spend a lot more time working on the lab information system, and clinician informaticists spend more on the EHR.

 

[Filovirus]

One important difference: Pathologists boarding in CI through ABP may be able to combine 2 years of CI fellowship with a 1 year fellowship in another pathology subspecialty (aka "1+1"). That option is not currently available from ABPM.