One cohort at a time
The library, the paper feed and the member conversation are open all year. The cohort is the part with 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, 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 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.
Attending physicians · Clinical informaticists · Health-system executives · Nurse leaders · Researchers · Health-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 same conversation.
Where the cohort is not the right choice
The cohort carries no accredited credit yet. If CME is what you need this year, Harvard Medical School’s programme carries 27 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits and MOC points, and Johns Hopkins’ certificate carries 6 CEUs. That is set out, with sources, on the comparison page.
What you leave with
Something your organisation can use, not a certificate. Every module ends in one artifact, and the artifacts 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 there
- 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 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.
Joining also opens the library, the paper feed, and an email when new material is published — useful whether or not you ever apply.
One email address