The Informatics Research Training program is a coordinated approach to training in biomedical informatics. The training program is composed of academic training, mentored research training and experience, and other career-enhancing activities. Further, and importantly, trainees learn by doing their own independent research. Immediately upon entering the program, trainees are placed, according to their expressed interests, in one of our research laboratories. After a brief orientation period during which trainees are introduced to the variety of research projects and mentors in their laboratories, they develop their own research plans.

Each postdoctoral fellow participates in the two-year Harvard Medical School Master’s of Medical Science in Biomedical Informatics. The curriculum consists of a set of required and elective courses, mentored research, and a Master’s thesis.