AI for Life Sciences & Pharma: Essentials

Learners will be able to use AI for everyday work in a regulated life sciences company without creating compliance problems. The course covers where AI helps - summaries, drafts, meeting notes - and where regulated work means AI stays out or a person signs off. They leave knowing the difference and the habits that keep them safe.

What this course covers

The course runs across 3 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Writing Everyday Drafts and Summaries with AI — Imagine you need to summarize a long meeting. You can use AI to draft emails, clean up notes, and summarize public articles. This lesson shows you how to do this safely. You will practice writing a draft email using an AI tool.
Protecting Patient and Trial Data — You have a spreadsheet of patient names and lab results. You must never paste this private data into public AI tools. This lesson teaches you what data to keep out of AI. You will practice making decisions in real-work scenarios.
Regulated Documents, Sign-offs, and Records — A drug trial report needs a formal sign-off. You cannot let AI write regulated documents without human review and strict records. This lesson helps you recognize these documents. You will learn to track AI use and when to ask compliance for help.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

Everyday staff at life sciences and pharma companies. The material is pitched at beginner level, and takes roughly 30 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Industry: Life Sciences track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab, branching scenario exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a quiz assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

AI for Life Sciences & Pharma: Core — The working rung between safe everyday use and regulated-workflow expertise. Learners apply AI to the real middle of pharma work - literature summaries, internal reports, meeting-heavy coordination - while learning the documentation habits regulated environments expect. They finish using AI confidently in daily work with an auditable trail.
AI for Life Sciences & Pharma: Advanced — Pharma, biotech, and life-sciences teams learn to apply AI in regulated workflows with rigor. The course covers literature review, regulatory writing, data analysis, validation, and GxP and compliance considerations. Participants finish able to use AI where it's allowed, carefully and defensibly.
AI for Life Sciences & Pharma Pathway — Grow from safe everyday use into applying AI across regulated life sciences workflows.

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 30 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code IND-PHARMA-ESS.