OVERVIEW
Build AI Skills for Today’s Evolving Healthcare Landscape
Prepare for the future and enhance your résumé with an AI Fundamentals in Healthcare Certificate from the Leavitt School of Health. You’ll learn how to use artificial intelligence responsibly in healthcare settings, including:
- Evaluating when and how AI should be used
- Interpreting AI outputs, insights, and recommendations
- Identifying risks such as bias, errors, and privacy concerns
- Applying ethical, responsible, and human-centered AI practices
- Understanding the role of human judgment in AI use
As AI becomes more common in documentation, scheduling, clinical decision support, and beyond, these skills can prepare you for what’s next in healthcare. This certificate is designed for healthcare professionals in clinical and administrative roles. No bachelor’s degree is required.
Cost
$699
No additional fees
Courses
2 online courses
5 total credits
Time to Complete
3 months
5 to 10 hours per week
COURSES
AI Fundamentals in Healthcare Courses
With AI’s role in healthcare rapidly growing, it’s important for professionals in the industry to have practical AI literacy. This certificate helps you build the knowledge and judgment to use AI tools responsibly and effectively in your role. It does not require a bachelor’s degree and is designed for healthcare professionals in clinical and administrative roles, including nurses, medical assistants, care coordinators, healthcare administrators, and support staff.
Course Structure
This certificate is a self-directed, competency-based program that you complete on your own schedule. You’ll complete two courses with readings, videos, interactive elements, and optional quizzes to help you master the material. Each course includes a graded performance assessment where you’ll apply what you’ve learned.
The 2 courses in this program are:
Artificial intelligence has become part of our everyday lives—at home and in the office. This course introduces generative AI by pulling back the curtain on how it actually works and how you can use it wisely. You’ll start with the foundations. You’ll learn what AI is (and isn’t) and how generative models differ from other kinds of AI. From there, you’ll learn how prompts, instructions, and context shape results. And you’ll discover why AI can sound confident even while being wrong.
The course also addresses the risks and responsibilities associated with this technology. You’ll explore ethical considerations, potential harms, environmental and societal impacts, and the limits of AI’s strengths. In addition, you’ll evaluate outputs for accuracy, bias, and usefulness. You’ll learn how to apply human judgment, protect privacy, and choose the right tasks and tools. Finally, you’ll practice using AI in real-world scenarios.
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common in healthcare, clinicians and healthcare professionals are increasingly expected to understand how these tools influence patient care, clinical workflows, and healthcare operations. AI systems can analyze large amounts of data, assist with documentation, support clinical reasoning, and improve operational efficiency, but their use also requires careful attention to safety, ethics, privacy, bias, and professional responsibility.
In this course, you will explore how AI can be applied in healthcare settings to support clinical practice and healthcare operations, evaluate AI tools for risks such as bias, hallucinations, and data limitations, and examine how AI can assist with tasks such as diagnosis support, care planning, documentation, scheduling, and administrative workflows. You will also learn how to integrate AI into healthcare workflows while maintaining human oversight, professional scope-of-practice boundaries, and patient-centered communication. The knowledge and skills you gain in this course will help you use AI responsibly to support safe, efficient, and effective healthcare delivery.
CAREER OUTCOMES
Results That Make a Difference
As AI becomes part of more healthcare roles, building AI literacy helps you stay informed and ready to meet changing workplace expectations. This certificate helps you build AI skills that can strengthen your résumé, support your career growth, and prepare you for what’s next in healthcare.
Skills You’ll Build:
- Stay relevant as AI changes expectations across healthcare roles.
- Strengthen your résumé with healthcare-focused AI literacy.
- Build credibility by learning how to evaluate AI-supported information.
- Support responsible healthcare practices by recognizing risks tied to privacy, bias, accuracy, and accountability.
- Prepare for continued growth in clinical and administrative healthcare settings.
Roles that can benefit:
- Nurses
- Allied health professionals
- Healthcare operations staff
- Healthcare administrative staff
- Clinical documentation staff
- Care support staff
- Patient-support professionals
- Emerging clinical leaders
COST
An Affordable Certificate
Your certificate cost includes program access, e-textbooks, and learning resources.
You'll have three months to complete the program at your own pace. If you need more time, your enrollment will automatically transition to a $199 monthly subscription until you’re finished. You can cancel at any time. Financial aid isn't available, but we do offer monthly payment plans.
$699
Total cost | No additional fees
Payment Plan Option
3 monthly payments of $233
HOW IT WORKS
What to Expect From This Certificate
Requirements
- You must have internet access, a computer, and an external webcam.
- These courses require performance assessments, which you will submit to our WGU Evaluation Team. You may attempt each assessment two times before additional support is necessary.
Program Expectations
- This certificate will be self-directed, like other WGU competency-based courses, allowing you to complete modules as quickly as you master the material.
- You should plan to dedicate 5 to 10 hours a week to this certificate program.
Why Choose a Certificate?
If you're not quite ready to commit to a full degree program, want to try out online learning, or need a faster way to boost your résumé, a WGU certificate could be the right fit for you. With a certificate program, you can begin any time you want—no need to wait for the first of the month. WGU Certificates are also self-paced, so you can move as quickly as you are able to master the material. Plus, the certificate courses are transferrable to WGU degree programs, so you can continue your education whenever you're ready.
100% Online Courses that Work with Your Schedule
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Ready to Strengthen Your AI Literacy in Healthcare?
In just a few months, you can build practical AI skills that help you navigate today’s healthcare industry with confidence. Fill out the form to learn more about the AI Fundamentals in Healthcare Certificate.
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