AI Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals

AI Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals is organized by Mass General Brigham Office of Continuing Professional Development and will be held from Jun 05 - Aug 28, 2026.

Description:
AI Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals is a comprehensive virtual educational program designed to equip clinicians, administrators, and healthcare staff with the knowledge and practical insight needed to understand and apply artificial intelligence responsibly in healthcare settings. Through an accessible, real?world–focused curriculum, participants will build a strong foundation in AI concepts and healthcare data, explore clinical and operational use cases such as decision support, imaging, predictive analytics, and workflow optimization, and examine critical issues of ethics, bias, performance, and trust. 

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Develop a shared AI vocabulary and conceptual foundation
• Describe the data that powers AI systems and identify their limitations
• Relate core AI concepts to real?world clinical and operational workflows
• Describe the value of AI within and beyond direct clinical care
• Critically assess AI tools for appropriateness, performance, and risk
• Apply principles that ensure safe and equitable use of AI
• Integrate appropriate trust in, and adoption of, AI-enabled tools
• Identify rapidly emerging AI tools that clinicians are already using
• Measure the impact and value of AI tools in healthcare settings
• Integrate AI use with standards of clinical professionalism

NOTE: Weekly live virtual sessions are held on Fridays (except on Thursday, June 18 & July 2) from 12-2 PM EDT and available on demand