Informatics Internship Programs

The Office of Informatics offers internships provide opportunities for students interested in informatics research to work alongside informatics professionals on emerging projects. Projects relate to topics that may include machine learning, deep learning, image analysis, natural language processing, automated intervention, data analytics, and data security.

Summer Internship in Informatics

The Informatics Summer Internship opportunity is a 10-week, paid residential internship. Students selected for summer internships will receive monetary compensation and are eligible for on-campus housing. The internship typically runs between late May and early August each summer, with some flexibility for students at universities whose semesters end later. Interns are expected to own and work on a specific project, guided closely by mentors including faculty, staff, and graduate students. Each mentor typically only works with one or two students in order to provide focused 1-on-1 mentoring.

All students participating in the program will carry out research under the supervision of prominent informatics researchers, write a research abstract, present their work, and may have additional opportunities to present at a conference and to see their work published.

Exciting projects are offered on topics including, but not limited to:

Biomedical informatics and Electronic Health Records
Imaging and Artificial Intelligence
Academic Learning Health Care Systems

There are many benefits to these internships, not just the typical skills and experience boost for the students, but also for Wake Forest and the mentors. Over the years we have identified several particularly skilled interns that became full-time employees after graduation.  Other interns have continued in extended internships working beyond the end of the summer and published papers with our faculty mentors. 

At the end of the internship, we survey the students on their experience. Several have reported that due to the internship they have changed their future plans to include applying to Wake Forest for graduate school. Other students have said the internship has opened their eyes to the extensiveness of the field of biomedical informatics, particularly the wide range of career options.

The main criteria for the selection of summer scholars will be personal scholarship and academic excellence, and the match of applicant interests with those of participating researchers.

Learn more and view our program's research project descriptions (PDF).

In-year Informatics Internship (I³)

In-year Informatics Internships take place during the academic year and have flexible start/end dates. These internships, designed for undergraduate students, are paid opportunities with flexible hours that accommodate students’ schedules. While students at any college or university may apply, please keep in mind that this is an in-person internship opportunity and interns will have to come to Winston-Salem at least once per week to participate. Students with internships taking place during the academic year will have the opportunity to work on one or more projects with the Informatics team.

Promoting Diversity in Informatics

The Office of Informatics is committed to the Wake Forest University School of Medicine inclusion and diversity mission. We are dedicated to providing research opportunities to all students, with special interest in applications from students typically underrepresented within fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. These include racial and ethnic minority groups, disabled individuals, and those disadvantaged socioeconomically. First generation college attendees and those attending colleges with limited research opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are also highly encouraged to apply.

Apply to an Informatics Internship

Wake Forest Informatics internship programs are competitive. Applicants should be undergraduates or master’s level students pursuing degrees in engineering, mechanics, bioengineering, biotechnology, informatics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, biology, pre-medicine, or related fields to be eligible and must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher (on the 4.0 scale). They must have completed at least two semesters of undergraduate education and be at least 18 years of age by the first day of the program. International students who currently have a J-1 or F-1 visa and who are already attending school in the United States are eligible to apply.

Summer Internship Programs

Our Informatics Summer Internship works in tandem with the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program administered by the Wake Forest Biomedical Engineering Department. Informatics interns are primarily selected from those who apply to the REU program. However, alternative application avenues such as internships.com are available for high school and graduate students. Please visit the REU application page for additional information on the Summer Internship program. Qualifying students applying to the Summer Internship Program will also be considered for CALIBIR, an associated summer internship funded by the NIH, designed to create specific opportunities for students typically underrepresented as described above.

Informatics Summer Application

In-year Informatics Internship (I³)

In-year Informatics Internship (I³) applications are accepted on a rolling basis, please click below to apply.

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