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Roadmap for Healthcare AI

Editorial picks

Starting points for common goals. Each one is an editorial selection, shown with the criteria it was chosen on. They are suggestions, not rankings: the rest of each track is just as carefully checked.

  1. Best for: Complete beginners

    Editorial selection

    YUVA AI for ALL (IndiaAI)

    Criteria: Free, 4.5 h, no prerequisites, government certificate, current (Nov 2025), Indian examples

  2. Best for: Clinicians, no code

    Editorial selection

    Google Skills Generative AI for Healthcare then AMA ChangeMedEd series

    Criteria: Free, healthcare-specific, ~1 h plus short modules, prompting plus foundations; AMA adds CME

  3. Best for: CME-bearing depth

    Editorial selection

    Stanford AI in Healthcare (Evaluations 9.50 + Capstone 11.00 AMA PRA Cat 1)

    Criteria: Accredited CME, clinician-designed, free audit

  4. Best for: Researchers

    Editorial selection

    TRIPOD+AI + PROBAST+AI + STARD-AI, then Harvard AIM II syllabus

    Criteria: Primary standards, current (2024–2025), directly used by journals

  5. Best for: Coding (clinical ML)

    Editorial selection

    DeepLearning.AI AI for Medicine then MIT 6.7930 materials

    Criteria: Real medical tasks (CXR, MRI segmentation, survival), graded labs; MIT for depth

  6. Best for: Evaluation / appraisal

    Editorial selection

    Stanford "Evaluations of AI Applications in Healthcare" + JHU/Byrne if a date reopens

    Criteria: Evaluation-specific, CME, RCT-level rigour

  7. Best for: Agents / RAG

    Editorial selection

    DeepLearning.AI A2A (healthcare build) + Hugging Face Agents & MCP

    Criteria: Current protocols, free or low cost, certificates (HF), healthcare scenario (DLAI)

  8. Best for: Medical imaging

    Editorial selection

    MONAI tutorials (+ RSNA Imaging AI Certificate for radiologists)

    Criteria: Open-source industry standard, Colab-runnable; RSNA is radiology-specific and case-based

    Not in the resource list yet: RSNA Imaging AI Certificate.

  9. Best for: Regulation

    Editorial selection

    FDA PCCP (Aug 2025) + CDS (29 Jan 2026) + CDSCO MDSW (2026)

    Criteria: Primary sources, current, cover US and India

  10. Best free resource

    Editorial selection

    Hugging Face Agents Course (technical) / Google GenAI for Healthcare (clinical)

    Criteria: Zero cost, certificates, current

  11. Best for: University-level

    Editorial selection

    MIT 6.7930/HST.956

    Criteria: Graduate rigour, clinical data, fairness and causality

  12. Best for: Project-based

    Editorial selection

    HMS Strategies to Implementation (capstone pitch; US$3,150) or, free, Stanford Capstone

    Criteria: Project across the whole course

  13. Best for: India

    Editorial selection

    NPTEL AI for Clinicians (IIT Madras) for depth-for-free; IIT Delhi CEP for a cohort with live teaching

    Criteria: Indian faculty, free vs structured paid, 2026 runs