July 17, 2026 Generative AI in Healthcare Practice / Focused Prompting for Healthcare Professionals

July 17, 2026

Session A: Generative AI in Healthcare Practice 

Goal: Address rapidly emerging tools clinicians are already using

  • How generative models (LLMs) work—at a high level
  • Agentic AI
  • Use cases: documentation, patient education, summarization, telemedicine
  • Hallucinations and reliability issues
  • Prompting basics for healthcare professionals
  • Institutional vs public tools (risk differences)

Hands-on: Safe prompting and verification techniques

Session B: Focused Prompting for Healthcare Professionals

Goal: Equip professionals to safely & effectively prompt AI tools

Practice Skill: Safe prompting & verification techniques

Target Audience

This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, quality & safety professionals, healthcare administrators & pharmacists.

Learning Objectives

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

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

Additional Information

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Course summary
Course opens: 
04/22/2026
Course expires: 
09/28/2026
Event starts: 
07/17/2026 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
07/17/2026 - 2:00pm EDT
Cost:
$0.00
Part of: 
AI Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals
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Course Co-Directors

David W. Bates, MD, MSc
Chief Innovation Officer, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Professor, Harvard Medical School

Li Zhou, MD, PhD
Lead Investigator, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Hossein Estiri, PhD
Investigator, Mass General Research Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Speakers

Shawn Murphy, MD
Xinsong Du, PhD

In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statements

AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 26.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing
Mass General Brigham designates this activity for 26.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacy
This activity provides 26.00 contact hours (26.00 CEUs) of continuing education credit. ACPE Universal Activity Number (UAN): JAXXXXXX-XXXX-XX-XXX-XXX-X.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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