Abstract Clinical informatics (CI) fellowship programs for physicians in the United States are growing with over 60 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited fellowship programs. As a young clinical subspecialty, many have questions about the field; in addition, fellowship eligibility and structure vary significantly. Physicians apply for CI fellowships through Electronic Residency Application Service and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Match. Fellowship websites are essential resources for prospective applicants to learn about this subspecialty and fellowship programs. The objective of this study is to evaluate the usability of CI fellowship program websites listed on the AMIA website. Forty-two U.S.-based CI fellowship programs were evaluated using web-crawler based usability analysis tools across (1) accessibility, (2) marketing, (3) content quality, (4) technology, and (5) general usability from November 1, 2024, through November 19, 2024. Marketing had the lowest mean score of 5.75 and technology had the highest mean score of 8.44. Content quality had the highest standard deviation (1.58). This analysis established the baseline usability of CI fellowship program websites. Addressing gaps in usability will help with increasing CI fellowship visibility among potential applicants.
You et al. (2026) studied this question.