A rigorously-structured clinical informatics fellowship embedded in one of the country's most active health-AI research environments. Build production EHR systems. Lead implementation science. Ship AI/ML in real clinical workflows.

Apply for AY 2026–27 → Life in San Diego

2yr

ACGME Fellowship

Fellows / year

72°F

Avg daytime high

$55B

Biotech economy

ACGME-Accredited · Two-Year Subspecialty Fellowship

Train at the edge of medicine
and machine intelligence.

fellow@ucsd-ci ~ % ./compile-fellowship.sh ⏵ ready

$ init --cohort=2026 --year=1 → initializing two-year ACGME training program... ✓ board eligibility: ABPM pathway ✓ subspecialty training track ready $ load program.config ✓ ACGME clinical informatics · 2-year track ✓ 2 fellows / cohort · any ABMS specialty $ deploy --site=san-diego --weather=72°F ≈ training environment: San Diego & La Jolla, CA · UC San Diego Health · 3 hospitals · 40+ clinics · EHR: Epic (UCSD) · Oracle/Cerner (affiliates) · Center for Health Innovation (AI/ML) · Dept. of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) · one of the top US life-sciences regions · Pacific Ocean .......... minutes away · Anza-Borrego desert .... < 2 hrs $ run fellowship

// fellowship.spec

2yr

ACGME-accredited

Board eligibility in Clinical Informatics.

Any

ABMS specialty

Hosted by Emergency Medicine, open to all.

Fellows per year

Weekly faculty contact, individual learning plans.

EHR vendors

Epic at UCSD, Oracle Health at affiliates.

// health.ai = research + deployment

Machine intelligence, in print and in production.

Fellows embed with the Center for Health Innovation — UCSD's institutional home for health AI/ML research, governance, and clinical deployment — and publish from that work.

JAMA · 2026 Changes in Clinician Time Expenditure and Visit Quantity With Adoption of AI-Powered Scribes: A Multisite Study Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, … Singh K, Tai-Seale M, Melnick ER, Bates DW, Adler-Milstein J, et al. JAMA · 2025 Testing and Evaluation of Health Care Applications of Large Language Models: A Systematic Review Bedi S, Liu Y, Orr-Ewing L, … Singh K, Milstein A, Pfeffer MA, Shah NH. NEJM AI · 2024 Large Language Models for More Efficient Reporting of Hospital Quality Measures Boussina A, … Hogarth M, Sitapati AM, Singh K, Longhurst CA, Nemati S. JAMA Netw Open · 2023 Ransomware Attack Associated With Disruptions at Adjacent Emergency Departments in the US Dameff C, Tully J, Chan TC, Castillo EM, … Clay BJ, Longhurst CA.

★ Center for Health Innovation

The AI/ML research home

UCSD's institutional home for health AI/ML research, governance, and clinical deployment. Fellows embed directly with the CHI team, across imaging, ambient documentation, sepsis prediction, and LLM evaluation.

Research & publications → Program partners →

// program.mentorship

Two fellows a year.
You’ll know everyone by name.

Program leadership is internationally recognized and small enough to be reachable: an individualized learning plan, weekly contact with the program director, and core faculty who take your project seriously.

Program Director

Brian Kwan, MD MS FAMIA

Emergency Medicine • Clinical Informatics

Associate Program Director

Brian Clay, MD

Hospital Medicine • Clinical Informatics

Associate Program Director

Robert El-Kareh, MD MPH MS

Hospital Medicine • Clinical Informatics

Assistant Program Director

Christian Dameff, MD MS

Emergency Medicine • Clinical Informatics

All faculty, fellows & staff →

// compensation + location

Two years here,
and how you’re supported.

Fellows are UCSD Health house staff under the SDHSA–CIR/SEIU agreement, so the benefits are contractual — and the city they’re spent in is the most temperate large one in the country.

Mornings

Start the day outside

Torrey Pines trails and Black's Beach sit right below campus.

Weekends

Mexico, mountains, or desert

Tijuana just south. Anza-Borrego desert to the east.

Evenings

Tacos, breweries, Padres at Petco

North Park for food and drinks. Downtown for the ballpark.

Spotlight photos via Wikimedia Commons: La Jolla coast, Black Mountain, Anza-Borrego wildflowers, Balboa Park, San Diego Zoo, and Petco Park, used under their respective Wikimedia Commons licenses.

Vacation days / yr

Plus 14 University holidays and 5 professional-leave days.

$200

Meal allowance / mo

Credited through the UCSDH EATS system.

$950

Education stipend / yr

Paid each fall, plus conference travel support.

100%

Licensure reimbursed

New or renewed California medical license, in full.

Salary & benefits detail → The full San Diego brief →

AY 2026–27 · Applications Open

Ready to compile your career in clinical informatics?

Applications submitted via ERAS. Match through AMIA. Two positions per year — physicians from any ABMS specialty.

Start ERAS application → Email the program

Application

ERAS · opens July 2026

Match

AMIA · Dec 2026 (tent.)

Positions

2 per academic year

Eligibility

Any ABMS specialty

Start

July 2027

Train at the edge of medicineand machine intelligence.