Adtalem Global Education has partnered with Google to create a pioneering suite of AI credentials designed to prepare clinicians for the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Announced by CEO Steve Beard at the CNBC AI Summit, the collaboration aims to address widespread clinician burnout caused by administrative overload by integrating AI tools into medical education and practice. Through Google Cloud, Adtalem will launch AI certifications by 2026 that teach both general AI literacy and specialized applications for various clinical roles. The initiative underscores a critical need for workforce readiness—ensuring that healthcare professionals can seamlessly adopt AI technologies to enhance efficiency, reduce non-clinical burdens, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
A key example of this balance between innovation and empathy comes from Adtalem’s collaboration with Hippocratic AI, which Beard highlighted as a model for safe and effective AI integration. Hippocratic AI’s voice-based generative agents assist with non-diagnostic, administrative, and outreach tasks, allowing clinicians to focus more on direct care. Importantly, these AI interactions remain under human supervision, reinforcing patient trust and compliance. This partnership illustrates the broader goal of AI in healthcare—to complement rather than replace human expertise. By embedding AI education into medical training and collaborating with trusted health AI pioneers like Hippocratic AI, Adtalem and Google are working to “future-proof” the healthcare workforce while preserving the human connection at the heart of patient care.