A few weeks ago, LinkedIn published its “LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise 2025” research, which defines the fastest-growing jobs over the past three years and the trends defining future work. Notably but not surprisingly, jobs related to artificial intelligence (AI) comprised two of the top three jobs and three of the top 25 jobs on the list.

AI is quickly transforming many industries—and health care is no exception.

Artificial intelligence was neither part of my education as an MD student at Harvard Medical School in the 1990s nor my internal medicine training or pulmonary and critical fellowship. As physicians and health care professionals, most of us have received no formal training in a domain that is quickly becoming essential to the future of our work.

AI is a subject that all health care professionals working in all corners of the field—from clinical practice to science and business—need to learn about quickly.

Here at Harvard Medical School, we are responding to this growing need by developing and offering a range of professional-level programs and courses designed to teach key aspects of AI and its application within health care. They include offerings tailored to clinicians and those working in clinical practice, courses with a scientific focus, and others geared at innovation in health care delivery and enabling industry areas.

The programs and courses are offered in formats ranging from blended (in-person, live virtual, and self-paced online) to fully self-paced online. From providing a foundational understanding of AI to specialized applications, they cover strategies, implementation approaches, and case studies to accommodate a wide range of professional needs in the continuously evolving health care landscape. The broad range of offerings and formats allows the learning to fit into the lives of even the busiest professional learners.

I’m extraordinarily thankful to our talented faculty and staff members who are working tirelessly to develop and offer this growing collection of exceptional learning opportunities:

Leading AI Innovation in Health Care is our newest postgraduate certificate program. It’s a blended learning experience over two months, designed for leaders seeking to drive AI innovations in health care systems. The program will include a five-day in-person immersion in Boston, including site visits within Harvard hospitals, attendance at Mass General Brigham’s MESH Core health care innovation boot camp, project work, and presentations. Participants emerge with enhanced leadership capabilities and will be ready to implement AI-driven projects in health care.

AI in Clinical Medicine is a two-day, accredited live virtual continuing education course that delves into the influence of AI on clinical practice and patient care. The course is rich with expert lectures and real-world examples, exploring AI methodologies, clinical applications, and ethical dimensions. Participants gain a comprehensive understanding of how AI is transforming clinical medicine, equipping them with the knowledge to apply these insights in their clinical roles.

AI for Health Care: Strategies and Implementation is an eight-week, mostly self-paced executive education program that provides a strategic framework to help participants develop, propose, and execute AI-powered solutions to drive transformative change in their organizations. This program benefits industry audiences in particular.

AI in Medicine: HMX Short Courses
The HMX short courses are an excellent option for those seeking focused lessons on artificial intelligence topics. With 3-4 hour online lessons on Natural Language Processing, Biomedical Signal Interpretation, and Medical Image Interpretation, learners can focus on the latest advances most relevant to their work. Our newest introductory modules on AI in Health Care will help participants develop foundational AI knowledge applicable to health care and cover advanced AI methods, diagnostics, predictive analytics, and personalized medicine. All courses feature interactive online tools. Clinicians, scientists, and business professionals all will benefit from these courses.

In addition to our standalone AI learning experiences, we are seamlessly integrating artificial intelligence into many of our existing programs. For example, the Harvard Macy Institute’s Transforming Your Teaching Using Technology course now empowers educators to digitally transform their learning and educational environments by exploring and applying cutting-edge tools, with a strong emphasis on generative AI. Participants engage in innovative approaches such as microteaching with AI and interactive technology-enhanced learning, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to navigate and adapt to the rapidly evolving digital education landscape.

Please join us for one or more of these learning opportunities. The impact of AI in medicine, medical science and health care is going to be tremendous. As a global health care community, there are many meaningful ways we can work together to alleviate human suffering and improve health and wellbeing for all. My hope is that together we can understand these new tools and approaches and leverage the incredible power of AI to help us all improve lives and advance knowledge.