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Free, practical AI courses built around one job at a time: doctors, nurses, pharmacists, accountants, lawyers, HR teams, teachers, marketers, content creators, real estate agents and small business owners. Each course uses tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot on real tasks from that profession, and covers where AI must not be trusted.

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19 courses · 191 modules · 117h 3m of video · Updated 27 September 2026
AI Essentials for Work: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot course cover
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AI Essentials for Work: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot

Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot properly at work: what they are, how to ask, how to check what comes back, and what never to paste in. Taught from Google's AI Essentials, Anthropic's AI Fluency course and OpenAI Academy.

  • Decide which tasks to hand to an AI assistant and which to keep
  • Write prompts with a task, context, references and format
  • Use examples to get the exact style and structure you want
9 modules 3h 18mView course
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AI for Doctors: Clinical Notes, Research and Safe Use

Use AI tools safely in clinical work: how models learn, prompting for clinicians, AI scribes and documentation, reading evidence with AI, judging whether a model is any good, and the bias, privacy and legal questions every doctor now meets. Built on NBEMS's free AI in Healthcare lectures.

  • Explain how a clinical AI model learns, and why it can fail on a new population
  • Write de-identified prompts that give useful clinical drafts
  • Use an AI scribe with consent and a proper review before signing
9 modules 7h 25mView course
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AI for Accountants and CAs: ChatGPT, Claude and Excel for Real Accounting Work

Free course for accountants: ChatGPT, Claude and Excel for reconciliations, macros and research, keeping client data safe. The certificate is optional and paid.

  • Set up an AI assistant safely for accounting work
  • Write finance prompts that name the rules, the format and your check
  • Speed up bank reconciliations and clear every exception yourself
9 modules 5h 54mView course
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Excel with Copilot and AI for Finance and FP&A

Put AI to work in Excel for finance: Copilot in Excel and its agent mode, what the retired =COPILOT function taught, cleaning data with Power Query, Python in Excel, testing Copilot against Claude and ChatGPT on the same spreadsheet, and building forecasts, dashboards and board commentary without losing control of the numbers.

  • Use Copilot in Excel on a clean table and check every formula it writes
  • Classify and summarise text with Copilot, and know why Microsoft kept AI away from calculations
  • Clean messy exports with Power Query so next month is one refresh
9 modules 4h 50mView course
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AI for Digital Marketing and Social Media

Digital marketing with AI, from the funnel to the numbers: write content with AI without sounding like everyone else, rank in classic and AI search, run search ads and social with AI help, build email campaigns, and measure what actually pays. Built on Google's and HubSpot's own lessons.

  • Map the customer journey and the marketing funnel
  • Brief AI tools so drafts fit your brand and never invent facts
  • Write for classic search and AI answers with first-hand experience
9 modules 4h 40mView course
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Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio Agents

Use Microsoft 365 Copilot well and build your first agent: what Copilot, Copilot Chat and Copilot Studio each are, how grounding works, Copilot in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, prompting and saved prompts, the Researcher and Analyst agents, building and grounding an agent in Copilot Studio, and responsible use.

  • Tell apart Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot, agents and Copilot Studio
  • Explain grounding and why permissions shape every Copilot answer
  • Use Copilot in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, and check its output
9 modules 4h 27mView course
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AI for Small Business Owners

Put AI to work in a small business: what it can do and where to start, prompting and the risks, choosing an assistant, building a website and store with AI, content and images, WhatsApp and customer-service agents, automating busywork, research with Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) and Gems, and simple accounts and a CRM.

  • Choose the tasks where AI will save your business time, and the ones it must not decide
  • Write prompts that produce usable drafts, and choose an assistant that fits your tools
  • Build and check a website or online store with AI
9 modules 3h 16mView course
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AI for Lawyers and Legal Teams: Research, Drafting and Contract Review, Safely

Use AI in legal work without putting a client or a filing at risk: vetting a legal AI tool, where a firm should start, prompts and a prompt library, twenty practical use cases, contract review with AI playbooks, fake citations and how to catch them, confidentiality and privilege, and how Indian courts approach AI.

  • Vet a legal AI tool on its data terms and on your own documents
  • Choose low-risk first uses for a firm and cost them honestly
  • Write anonymised legal prompts and keep a prompt library
9 modules 4h 49mView course
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AI for HR and Recruiters: Hiring, People Analytics and Fair Use

Use AI across HR work without losing fairness or trust: the myths and the skills, types of AI and an HR AI strategy, prompting for HR, job descriptions and CV screening, onboarding, payroll and performance, HR metrics and people analytics, learning and employee experience, and the ethics and law of AI in HR.

  • Separate AI myths from what AI does in HR, and name the skills HR needs
  • Tell predictive from generative AI and match controls to risks
  • Write HR prompts without personal data
9 modules 4h 59mView course
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AI for Real Estate Agents

Use AI in a real estate practice: ChatGPT for agents, prompts that run the business, the tools worth paying for, being found on ChatGPT and Google, listing presentations, social video in less time, lead magnets and follow-up, and what changes next. Accurate listings and client privacy throughout.

  • Use a general AI assistant to draft listings, emails and posts from your own facts
  • Write prompts that stop the assistant inventing features
  • Choose AI tools by time saved, editing needed and data handling
9 modules 4h 46mView course
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AI for Nurses and Healthcare Staff

Use AI tools safely in nursing work: how chatbots and clinical models work, ChatGPT for nurses, SBAR handovers and patient education, how information flows through care, custom assistants (ChatGPT projects and Gemini Gems), judging an AI alert, and the privacy and ethics every nurse now meets. Built on NBEMS and AIMSS lectures and lessons from nurse educators.

  • Explain how chatbots and clinical prediction models work, and why each can be wrong
  • Write de-identified prompts that give useful drafts for nursing work
  • Use AI to structure SBAR handovers while keeping the assessment your own
9 modules 7h 16mView course
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AI for Content Creators: Scripts, Images, Video and Editing

Make better videos and images with AI, honestly: ideas, scripts and shot lists with ChatGPT, image prompts that work, consistent characters in Midjourney, what AI video can and cannot do, editing and finishing in CapCut, and the rights, consent and disclosure rules every creator now needs.

  • Map where AI helps at each stage of a content pipeline
  • Write and time scripts, hooks and shot lists with ChatGPT
  • Structure image prompts and use creative controls in Adobe Firefly
9 modules 3h 48mView course
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AI for Teachers: Lesson Plans, Quizzes, Feedback and Classroom Policy

Use AI in your teaching, safely: plan lessons with structured prompts, make quizzes, flashcards and rubrics, draft feedback you then own, run an AI tutor that asks rather than tells, ground AI in your own sources, differentiate for every reader, and write a classroom AI policy that fits India's data protection law.

  • Explain how a chatbot produces answers and why it gets facts wrong
  • Write structured prompts for lesson plans and curriculum maps
  • Create and check quizzes, flashcards, rubrics and feedback drafts
9 modules 3h 56mView course
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AI for Pharmacists and Pharma Professionals

How AI is changing pharmacy and the pharma industry: drug discovery and the development pipeline, AI tools in plain terms, ADMET prediction, AI in clinical trials, GMP data integrity and ALCOA++, AI for QA and SOP work, and the regulation that governs it all. Built on NPTEL IIT Madras lectures and GMP Guide lessons.

  • Map where AI is used in pharmacy practice and across the pharma industry
  • Explain the drug development pipeline and why AI targets early failure
  • Describe AI techniques, molecular representations and open tools in plain words
9 modules 5h 55mView course
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AI for Project Managers: Planning, Risk and Reporting

Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot on real project work: prompts built for project tasks, charters and scope from stakeholder notes, WBS and schedules you check yourself, estimates with honest ranges, risk registers with EMV, minutes and RAID logs, status reports for each audience, user stories for agile teams, the AI in Planner, Jira and Asana, and the confidentiality rules that come first.

  • Sort project tasks into what AI may draft, what it may assist with and what a person must decide
  • Write prompts with role, context, task, format and checks, and save them as templates
  • Keep confidential client, commercial and personal data out of public AI tools
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AI for Banking and Financial Services

Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot for real banking work without breaking the rules: prompts for bank tasks, credit file summaries and credit memos you check line by line, KYC and AML alert narratives that leave the decision with you, customer replies and complaints, reading circulars with citations you verify, loan book analysis in Excel, model risk and bias, and the confidentiality rules that come first.

  • Sort bank tasks into draft with AI, check with AI, and human decision only
  • Write five-part prompts that give the source and ask for evidence you can check
  • Keep customer and non-public bank data out of public AI tools and follow your bank's AI policy
12 modules 8h 51mView course
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AI for Sales and Business Development

Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot across the B2B sales cycle: ideal customer profiles and account research, personalised outreach without spam, discovery preparation, call notes to CRM, objection practice, proposals and quotations, margin maths checked by hand, pipeline reviews and forecasts, AI features in HubSpot, Salesforce and Zoho, and the email and data rules a seller must keep.

  • Decide which sales tasks AI should draft, which it should check, and which only a person may decide
  • Write five-part prompts that supply the facts and stop the assistant inventing them
  • Build an ideal customer profile, score accounts and research them from public sources
13 modules 9h 25mView course
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AI for Procurement and Supply Chain

Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot for real procurement and supply chain work: spend analysis, supplier risk screening, RFQs and bid comparison, contract red flags, negotiation preparation, demand forecasting, EOQ and safety stock, shipment exceptions and the AI inside procurement suites, with every number checked and supplier data kept confidential.

  • Decide which procurement tasks AI drafts and which decisions stay with the buyer
  • Write prompts that carry the quote data, units, format and the check to run
  • Keep supplier prices, bids and personal data out of the wrong AI tools
13 modules 9h 33mView course
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AI for Electrical and MEP Design Engineers

How an electrical or MEP design engineer uses ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot on real design work without handing over the engineering: checked calculations, cable sizing, specifications, BOQ, code look-up, Python scripts, PDF extraction and QA of AI output.

  • Sort design tasks into AI drafts, AI assists with checks, and AI must not own
  • Keep client drawings and data confidential with the right plan, settings and redaction
  • Write calculation prompts with inputs, units and method, and check every answer by a second route
13 modules 10h 53mView course

Compare the AI for professionals courses

CourseLevelModulesVideoBrand
AI Essentials for Work: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and CopilotBeginner93h 18mVendor-neutral
AI for Doctors: Clinical Notes, Research and Safe UseBeginner97h 25mVendor-neutral
AI for Accountants and CAs: ChatGPT, Claude and Excel for Real Accounting WorkBeginner95h 54mVendor-neutral
Excel with Copilot and AI for Finance and FP&ABeginner94h 50mVendor-neutral
AI for Digital Marketing and Social MediaBeginner94h 40mVendor-neutral
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio AgentsBeginner94h 27mMicrosoft
AI for Small Business OwnersBeginner93h 16mVendor-neutral
AI for Lawyers and Legal Teams: Research, Drafting and Contract Review, SafelyBeginner94h 49mVendor-neutral
AI for HR and Recruiters: Hiring, People Analytics and Fair UseBeginner94h 59mVendor-neutral
AI for Real Estate AgentsBeginner94h 46mVendor-neutral
AI for Nurses and Healthcare StaffBeginner97h 16mVendor-neutral
AI for Content Creators: Scripts, Images, Video and EditingBeginner93h 48mVendor-neutral
AI for Teachers: Lesson Plans, Quizzes, Feedback and Classroom PolicyBeginner93h 56mVendor-neutral
AI for Pharmacists and Pharma ProfessionalsBeginner95h 55mVendor-neutral
AI for Project Managers: Planning, Risk and ReportingBeginner149h 1mVendor-neutral
AI for Banking and Financial ServicesBeginner128h 51mVendor-neutral
AI for Sales and Business DevelopmentBeginner139h 25mVendor-neutral
AI for Procurement and Supply ChainBeginner139h 33mVendor-neutral
AI for Electrical and MEP Design EngineersBeginner1310h 53mVendor-neutral

Why learn AI for professionals in India

Generative AI assistants are now built into the email, office and search tools most professionals use every day. The risk is less about missing out and more about using AI badly: pasting confidential data into it, trusting invented facts, or breaking professional rules. A course tied to one profession teaches the tasks that profession actually does, and the safeguards its regulators and clients expect.

How to choose

Start with the course for your own profession if there is one: it uses that job's documents, rules and examples, so what you practise is what you will do on Monday.

If your job is not listed, or you want the basics first, take AI Essentials for Work. Office teams on Microsoft 365 should add Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents; finance teams, Excel with Copilot and AI for Finance.

Every course treats AI as a drafting and checking aid. You learn to verify its output, keep client, patient and employee data out of public tools, and leave the decision with a person.

Questions

Do I need a technical background?
No. These courses are written for non-programmers and start from how to write a clear instruction to an AI assistant.
Which AI tools are covered?
Mainly ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. Each course names the tools it uses and where a free tier is enough.
Which course should I start with?
The course for your profession, if there is one. Otherwise AI Essentials for Work.
Will I learn safe and ethical use?
Yes. Every course covers confidentiality, checking AI output for invented facts, and the limits of AI in that profession.
Is it free, and is there a certificate?
Every lesson, note and assessment is free. The EDWartens certificate is optional and paid, and you can finish without it.

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