AI for Healthcare Professionals

The Google AI for Healthcare Professionals Certificate is designed for anyone working across the healthcare ecosystem who wants to learn how to use AI safely, responsibly, and effectively in their day-to-day work. This includes frontline healthcare professionals (e.g. physicians, nurses, psychologists, therapists and social workers, pharmacists, etc.) engaging in continuing education, late-stage trainees and postgraduates (e.g. graduate medical students, medical residents, fellows, and nursing students), allied health professionals, health informatics professionals, and healthcare administrators.

Between heavy documentation, coordinating schedules, and keeping up with new medical literature, the administrative demands of healthcare can pull professionals away from their patients. Many believe AI can help, but want to ensure they are using it safely and responsibly. Built and taught by clinicians at Google, this healthcare AI certificate teaches safe, practical ways to use AI. In under 5 hours, you’ll learn to tailor patient communications, tackle administrative tasks, and support your professional learning, all while keeping patient safety and privacy front and center.

The certificate is comprised of four courses (approximately one hour each) that build foundational AI skills applicable to any tool your institution adopts:

• AI Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals. Identify tasks AI can safely support, evaluate model outputs with your clinical judgment, and protect patient privacy.
• Strengthen Patient Communication with AI. Translate complex medical jargon into plain-language summaries and tailored visual aids patients can easily understand.
• Optimize Healthcare Administrative Tasks with AI. Extract email action items, solve complex scheduling puzzles, and transform clinical documents into on-the-go audio briefings.
• Advance Healthcare Professional Development. Turn AI into a personalized learning partner to break down complex studies, build dynamic presentations, and streamline prep for continuing education.

No. The certificate is strictly designed for non-clinical administrative tasks, patient communication, and professional development. It does not cover clinical diagnosis, medical decision-making, or treatment recommendations. In accordance with strict patient safety and privacy standards, the program teaches you how to identify safe, non-clinical AI use cases and apply your professional judgment to evaluate all AI outputs.

No prior technical or AI experience is required. This curriculum is designed to be accessible to any healthcare professional, regardless of their familiarity with AI. There are no prerequisite courses to complete.

To ensure the certificate content is relevant and practical, the syllabus and learning materials were developed by clinicians at Google with backgrounds spanning internal medicine, pediatrics, critical care medicine, emergency medicine, and public health and reviewed by leading healthcare organizations. Additionally, this program is informed by draft AAMC AI competencies.

Yes, the Google AI for Healthcare Professionals Certificate has been approved for up to 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, jointly provided by iiCME and Google LLC.

Eligibility details:

• Physicians: Eligible to claim up to 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™   
• Nurse Practitioners and Registered Nurses: The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. Visit the ANCC website for more details.
• Physician Assistants: The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.
• Pharmacists: Different state boards of pharmacy have different requirements for continuing education. Some accept CME credit, while others accept only Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)-approved Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) credit. Please refer to your state board of pharmacy to confirm acceptance.
  

Note: All final decisions about credit hour acceptance will be made by the licensing organization to which the credit hours are submitted.

Healthcare professionals recognize that AI can streamline routine work, but valid concerns around data privacy often create hesitation. This certificate replaces uncertainty with confidence by teaching learners how to safely evaluate AI products, establish clear data boundaries, and apply their clinical judgment to supervise AI outputs responsibly. The curriculum emphasizes that an institution’s internal policy is always the ultimate source of truth, training healthcare professionals to recognize approved enterprise environments, prevent the input of Protected Health Information (PHI) and verify HIPAA compliant AI standards, and ensure human clinical oversight remains firmly at the center of care.

Lessons are taught by Google healthcare experts and practicing clinical leaders, with specialties in internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, and intensive care. These instructors combine clinical expertise with deep knowledge of technology to teach practical, safe, and highly relevant AI workflows for healthcare teams.

In the U.S. and Canada, the program is available on Coursera through a monthly subscription of $49 per month, allowing you to finish at your own pace. Prices may vary by country. When you enroll, you gain full access to all course materials, videos, activities, and assessments.

The certificate is self-paced, and it takes under 5 hours total to complete. Lessons are designed to fit flexibly between shifts, rounds, or on your commute.