The cohort
One cohort at a time
The library, the paper feed and the room are open all year. The cohort is the part with a start date, a small room, and an application.
Members are told first when applications open.
What it is
A fixed group, working through the same weeks together
A cohort is a small number of people taking the same material at the same time, with live sessions instead of a recorded course they watch alone.
Live, not recorded-and-shipped
Sessions run in real time with everyone in the same week of the material. Recordings follow for members, but the session itself is the point: the questions that matter are the ones nobody wrote a module about.
One cohort at a time
AIMOCS runs a single cohort, not a catalogue of them. It is the only part of the community with a start date; everything else is open all year.
Limited seats
The room is small because every person in it is expected to talk. The seat count for the next cohort is published when applications open, and it is not moved afterwards.
By application
You apply, and a seat is not guaranteed. Applications are read by a person. Being a member does not entitle you to a place, and nothing about the application is automated.
Who it is for
People who have to make a decision about this in their own service
Not a survey course. It assumes you will have to defend a position on a real tool to real colleagues, and it is built backwards from that.
Attending physiciansClinical informaticistsHealth-system executivesNurse leadersResearchersHealth-tech founders
No technical prerequisite is assumed. People arrive from clinical practice, from informatics, and from the administrative side, and the mix is most of the value: the person who has run a deployment and the person about to approve one need each other in the room.
What you leave with
Something your organisation can use, not a certificate
Every module ends in one artifact. They are the reason the material is organised the way it is.
The curriculum the cohort is built from is published in full, and it is re-checked against the field every quarter. When a regulator moves or a study lands, the material moves with it rather than waiting for the next recording.
An artifact from every module
Sixteen across the programme, each one a thing you can put in front of your own committee: an explainer for your department, an evaluation plan for a tool you are being sold, a governance note, a capstone pilot proposal.
A way to read the evidence
How a validation study is built, where the reported numbers usually come apart, and what a result on retrospective data does and does not predict about your own service.
The people who were in the room
The cohort continues inside the community afterwards. Members keep answering each other, which is the part a certificate cannot carry.
How to apply
Join first, then apply when the cohort opens
There is no standing application form. Applications open with each cohort and close when the seats are taken.
Join free
One email address. That is the whole form, and it is the only prerequisite for applying.
The application opens inside
Members are told first when the next cohort opens, and the application form appears in the portal. Nothing is sent to non-members before that.
A person reads it
Applications are read, not scored. If the cohort is not the right thing for what you are trying to do, we will say so, and point you at the part of the library that is.
Applications
Join free, and you will hear when the next cohort opens.
Joining also opens the library, the paper feed and the weekly email, which are useful whether or not you ever apply.
Free · one email address