One cohort at a time
Members take the courses at their own pace, all year. The cohort is the live version: a start date, a small group, and an application.
Live sessions · Limited seats · Application required
Members are told first when applications open.
What it is
A cohort is a fixed group working through the same weeks together: 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 sessions
- 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 lesson about.
- One cohort at a time
- AIMOCS runs one cohort at a time. It is the only part of AIMOCS with a start date. The courses, the community, and the library are there all year.
- Limited seats
- The group 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.
Physicians · Healthcare executives · Researchers
No technical prerequisite is assumed. People arrive from clinical practice, from research, and from the executive 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 same conversation.
Where the cohort is not the right choice
If a university credential is what you need this year, a university program is the better fit. The comparison page sets out what Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and MIT Sloan each offer, with sources.
What you leave with
Something your organization can use. Each track ends in a capstone built for your own service, and every course you finish also earns a certificate of completion.
The cohort draws on the four tracks summarized below. Members can take the ten courses behind them at their own pace; the cohort works through them live, together.
- A capstone from every track
- A deployed healthcare agent, demoed live (AI engineering). A validated clinical model with an honest evaluation report (clinical machine learning). A board-ready, governed pilot proposal (healthcare AI leadership). A working MVP and the pitch behind it (health tech founder). Each is something you can put in front of your own committee.
- 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 there
- The cohort continues inside the community afterwards, where members keep answering each other's questions long after the last session.
What the tracks cover
Two lanes across four tracks. Build is for people who write the code. Lead is for the people who direct them. Each track stands alone, there is no required order, and each ends with something you built.
- AI Engineering (Build)
- Programming foundations, large language models end to end, and agentic AI engineering. Ends in a deployed healthcare agent, demoed live.
- Clinical Machine Learning (Build)
- Machine learning on real clinical data through to deep learning in healthcare. Ends in a validated clinical model with an honest evaluation report.
- Healthcare AI Leadership (Lead)
- Where healthcare AI stands today, AI in healthcare operations, and strategy and governance. Ends in a board-ready, governed AI pilot proposal.
- Health Tech Founder (Build and Lead)
- Working with Claude, building a health tech startup, and AI in healthcare operations. Ends in a working MVP and the pitch behind it.
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.
The next cohort has not been announced.
- Join the network
- 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 the network, and you will hear when the next cohort opens.
Members post a case or a question, and physicians, healthcare executives, and researchers answer. Membership also includes the member directory, the full briefing, event registration and replays, and ten self-paced courses with certificates of completion.
One email address and a six-digit code.