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ForwardAI Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals
This is a virtual course.
AI Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals is a comprehensive 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. The program emphasizes maintaining clinical judgment while integrating AI into care delivery and organizational processes, and provides guidance on implementation, regulatory considerations, privacy, and measuring impact. Participants will also gain perspective on emerging trends, including generative AI and precision medicine, preparing them to engage thoughtfully and confidently with the rapidly evolving role of AI in healthcare.
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:
- 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
Additional Information
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
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.