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Track D · Healthcare & Life Sciences

AI in Healthcare & Life Sciences

AI literacy for B.Sc. Biology students at Indian universities — medical imaging basics, AI in diagnostics, bioinformatics introduction, healthcare AI ethics. NEP-aligned discipline module.

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Track D · D7

The module you would run on your campus

Healthcare students complete this module as part of the Track D layer of their existing degree, after the Universal Literacy module (D1).

What AI means in Healthcare

3 capabilities the module produces.

  • AI in medical imaging

    CNNs and vision transformers for radiology, pathology, ophthalmology — and the validation gap between benchmark accuracy and clinical-grade tooling.

  • Bioinformatics with AI

    Sequence analysis, AlphaFold-class protein prediction, single-cell genomics — scaffolded notebooks, no prior programming required.

  • Clinical & public-health AI

    FDA/CDSCO regulatory pathway, equity in deployment, the cultural-validity problem when Western-trained models meet Indian clinical contexts.

The module

AI in Healthcare & Life Sciences

D7

AI in Healthcare & Life Sciences

Sem 5–63 credits

Skill outcomes

  • Interpret medical imaging outputs from AI diagnostic models
  • Use AI tools for bioinformatics sequence analysis
  • Evaluate AI-assisted clinical decision support systems
  • Recognize regulatory and safety constraints on AI in healthcare

Prerequisites: D1

Updated 2026-04

Industry context

Most B.Sc. Biology programs in India teach no computation, yet the next decade of biological research, drug discovery, and clinical practice will be substantially AI-augmented. Students without exposure enter the workforce permanently behind.

Student outcomes

  • Read and critique a peer-reviewed paper on AI in medical imaging or diagnostics
  • Run a basic bioinformatics workflow with AI assistance
  • Articulate regulatory, equity, and validation considerations of clinical AI under DPDP
  • Bridge into Track A if pursuing computational biology professionally

Sibling discipline modules

The other 9 disciplines in Track D.

Every discipline module shares the Universal Literacy module (D1) and the Career Bridge (D12). The middle module is what makes the AI fluency discipline-relevant, not generic.

Run this on your campus

Healthcare students get the same Skill Score as every other Kompas student. Discipline-relevant. Cohort-comparable.

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