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Plan your next move in clinical informatics.
Describe your current work, see which informatics roles it resembles, choose one to aim for, and plan how to get there. You finish with a one-page report to share with a mentor.
- Where you are now. Your projects and your setting.
- Your current phenotype. Rate 20 kinds of work to see the roles yours resembles.
- Your goal phenotype. Describe the work you want in 3–5 years and choose a goal.
- Gaps and plan. See what's different, then plan 2–3 next steps.
About 45–90 minutes. Your answers save in this browser, so you can stop and come back. Use AI or not, as you prefer, for any step.
If you use AI: tools that remember your past chats will bring that context into the coaching. For a blank slate, use a temporary or incognito chat.
Where you are now
Describe what you actually do. If you're new to informatics, start with your clinical work and the problems you notice.
How do you want to work? Required
This sets the default for all four steps. You can switch, or change the AI tool, in any step.
Where are you in your career?
Which projects have mattered most to you? At least one required
Up to three. Clinical, operational, research, teaching, or informatics.
What did you want to do but didn't?
How would you sum up where you are now? Required
4–6 sentences in your own words. The AI can draft this for you.
Your current phenotype
A phenotype is a common pattern of informatics work, such as "clinician builder" or "informatics researcher." Most people match more than one. It describes your work; it isn't a test result.
How the matching works
You rate how often your work involves 20 kinds of activity. The tool compares your ratings with the typical mix for each of the 20 phenotypes and lists the closest. It compares the mix of your work, not how busy you are. See all 20 phenotypes.
Who are you now, in a sentence or two?
How often has your work involved each of these in the last 6–12 months? All 20 required
0 Never · 1 About once a year · 2 About monthly · 3 About weekly · 4 A few times a week · 5 Daily. Choose "Not sure" to leave one out.
Which of these fit you?
Your goal phenotype
Describe the work you want to be doing in 3–5 years. The tool shows the phenotypes that fit that work, and you choose one as your goal.
Not sure what you want yet?
That's common, and it's fine to explore first. Start from the work you enjoy, not a job title. Browse the 20 phenotypes to see what exists, then rate how much of each kind of work you'd like. If you're torn between a few, pick the closest and revisit it at your next check-in. Your goal can change as you learn.
How much of each kind of work do you want in 3–5 years? All 20 required
These start at your current ratings. Move up anything you want more of, and down anything you want less of.
0 Never · 1 About once a year · 2 About monthly · 3 About weekly · 4 A few times a week · 5 Daily
Which phenotype do you want to aim for? Required
Choose "Make this my goal" on one of the top three, or pick from all 20 below. Add a second if you're torn.
See all 20 phenotypes, sorted by fit
Gaps and plan
See your current and goal phenotypes side by side, look at what's different, and plan 2–3 next steps to close the gap.
How does your current work compare with your goal?
What are your gaps? At least one required
Fill in the ones that apply. For each, is it possible at your current workplace?
What could you try?
Pick any that fit and add them to your steps. You can edit them after.
What will you do next? At least two required
2–3 steps you can start in the next 6 months. Be specific about when and who can help.
Who can help you?
When will you check in on this plan?
How would you tell your story in 30 seconds?
Your one-page plan
Print it or save it as a PDF. In the print window, choose "Save as PDF" and turn off headers and footers. It updates when you change earlier steps.
Do it all in one AI conversation
A more flexible, conversational version of the same four steps. One prompt starts a coaching conversation in the AI tool you use. You can share your CV or other files, talk through what matters to you, and go deeper where you want. The AI checks in after each step and finishes by writing your one-page plan.
Full session
- You can upload or paste your CV, a portfolio, or a job description you're curious about. Remove anything sensitive first.
- Don't enter patient information or confidential details. Use the AI tool your organization allows.
- If your AI tool remembers past chats, it will use what it knows about you. For a blank slate, use a temporary or incognito chat.
- Confirm your preferred AI tool below.
- Chat with , one question at a time. Plan on 45–90 minutes. It tells you which step you're on, checks with you before moving on, and ends with your one-page career plan. Need to stop partway? Ask for "the export block so far."
- Copy the box that comes after your plan (most AI tools put a Copy button on it), paste it below, then click Fill in my answers. That fills in all four steps here, with exact match scores and the printable report. (The AI's own scores are estimates.)
See the prompt
Chat in . Come back when it writes “Copy everything below into the coach” and gives you a box.
Resources
The phenotypes, the 20 kinds of work, competency frameworks, training and certification options, communities, and references. Links go to publicly available pages.
About the phenotypes
A phenotype is a common pattern of informatics work: the activities, skills, setting, and way of contributing that tend to go together. Phenotypes overlap. They aren't personality types or validated categories. Use them to reflect, talk with mentors, and plan.
How they were made: a group of informatics faculty and fellows drafted them from experience across several fellowship programs and from earlier work describing informatics roles (KOI Pond, the CI Domains of Practice, #MyInformaticsProfile). About 100 informaticians answered a survey through Physicians in AMIA, a regional informatics group, and academic faculty groups (90 usable responses). The weights for each phenotype came from the survey and were adjusted by expert review. This supports using them for reflection, not for classifying people.
Prototype limits: the survey and phenotypes come from physicians. Role names here are written for all clinicians, but there are no nurse-, APP-, or pharmacist-specific phenotypes yet.
The 20 phenotypes
Each phenotype has a signature drawn from its typical mix of work: one petal for each of the 20 kinds of work, clockwise from the top in five groups. A longer petal means more of that kind of work.
The 20 kinds of work
"Domain" is the matching area of the Clinical Informatics Domains of Practice: D1 fundamentals, D2 improving care delivery and outcomes, D3 enterprise information systems, D4 data governance and analytics, D5 leadership and professionalism.
Full AI coach
Prefer one conversation? The full AI coach runs the whole session in any AI tool from a single prompt.
What informaticians do
- Clinical Informatics Domains of Practice (physician subspecialty, 2019): 5 domains, 42 tasks, 139 knowledge and skill statements. The basis of the board exam.
- Health Informatics Domains of Practice (all professions, 2020). The basis of AMIA's AHIC certification.
- Clinical Informatics board exam content outline (ABPM)
- ACGME Clinical Informatics Milestones (how fellows are assessed)
- KOI Pond: describe your work by setting (internal, external, policy) and focus (knowledge, operations, innovation).
- #MyInformaticsProfile: show where your time goes across areas of informatics.
AI in clinical informatics
Clinical AI is a growing part of informatics work: choosing, evaluating, putting into use, and governing AI tools in care.
- Cultivating AI leaders: the role of clinical informatics fellowship in transforming healthcare (Lingam et al., 2026; free full text)
- AMIA 10x10: Introduction to Biomedical Informatics and AI (short online course)
Training and certification
- Clinical Informatics board certification (physicians, ABPM). Requires an ACGME-accredited fellowship. The practice pathway is closed.
- Find an accredited fellowship (ACGME program search; choose Clinical Informatics) and the AMIA fellowship match.
- AMIA Health Informatics Certification (AHIC) for nurses, pharmacists, other clinicians, and physicians who aren't board-certified in informatics.
- Informatics Nursing certification (ANCC)
- AMIA 10x10 courses: short online courses, a common starting point.
- Informatics degree and certificate programs (AMIA directory)
- Also useful: Lean or Six Sigma training, project management training, and your EHR vendor's builder training.
Communities
- Physicians in AMIA (PINA)
- AMIA Nursing Informatics
- American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA)
- AMDIS (physician informatics leaders)
- AMIA career development (includes the AMIA job board)
- myIDP: a free career-planning tool for scientists. It uses a similar self-assessment approach.
References
- Silverman HD, Steen EB, Carpenito JN, et al. Domains, tasks, and knowledge for clinical informatics subspecialty practice: results of a practice analysis. JAMIA. 2019;26(7):586-593. Free full text
- Gadd CS, Steen EB, Caro CM, et al. Domains, tasks, and knowledge for health informatics practice: results of a practice analysis. JAMIA. 2020;27(6):845-852. Free full text
- Kim E, Van Cain M, Hron JD. Job search strategies and early careers of clinical informatics fellowship alumni (2016-2022). JAMIA. 2024;31(4):884-892. Free full text
- Lingham V, Chandwarkar A, Miller M, et al. A systematic approach to the design and implementation of clinical informatics fellowship programs. Appl Clin Inform. 2023;14(5):951-960. Free full text
- Kannry J, Sengstack P, Thyvalikakath TP, et al. The Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (CCIO): AMIA task force report on CCIO knowledge, education, and skillset requirements. Appl Clin Inform. 2016;7(1):143-176. Free full text
- Hersh W. Who are the informaticians? What we know and should know. JAMIA. 2006;13(2):166-170. Free full text
- Manning JD, et al. KOI Pond: the "elevator pitch" that adapts to describe the breadth and variety of clinical informatics practice. ACI Open. 2020;4:e22-e29. Free full text
- Neinstein A. #MyInformaticsProfile. 2020. Link
- Cruess RL, Cruess SR, Boudreau JD, Snell L, Steinert Y. Reframing medical education to support professional identity formation. Acad Med. 2014;89(11):1446-1451. Publisher (subscription)
- Chang CN, Hui J, Justus-Smith C, Wang TW. Navigating STEM careers with AI mentors: a new IDP journey. Front Artif Intell. 2024;7:1461137. Free full text
- Lingam V, Kannry J, Khanna R, et al. Cultivating AI leaders: the role of clinical informatics fellowship in transforming healthcare. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2026;56:101407. Free full text
- Genkins J. Clinical informatics phenotypes, portfolios, and elevator pitch. AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference (CIC) Fellows Retreat; 2023. Presentation.
- Mieso B, Lingam V, Genkins J. CI physician phenotypes and portfolios. AMIA CIC 2025 Fellows Retreat; May 19, 2025. Presentation.