Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics offers training for postdoctoral, PhD, and master's students who wish to study the core discipline or one or more of its application areas: Bioinformatics, clinical, clinical research, translational and public health informatics; Postdoctoral fellows may participate in either degree (MA or PhD) or non-degree programs. The department also has an ACGME accredited clinical informatics fellowship and a 9-month certificate of professional achievement in HIT program.