Certificate in Canadian Health Care

These courses offer individuals with no background or limited study in health care with a foundational certificate program. These courses offer a basis for future students in health-based programs.

The Canadian Health Care Certificate provides optional introductory courses for the existing Health Information Management and Health Informatics programs.

Canadian Health Care Certificate Learning Outcomes
 

•    Describe the Canadian health care system, its current governance, its regulation and operation, its current trends and issues;
•    Identify structural units of the body including cells, tissues, organs and systems;
•    Apply medical abbreviations and acronyms used in health care documentation;
•    Analyze common diagnostic interventions to determine a normal or abnormal result;
•    Understand the role of risk factors in health and disease;
•    Demonstrate knowledge of the course of a pathological condition;
•    Investigate methods used in public health surveillance and disease outbreak investigation;
•    Explore research design involving descriptive, analytical, and intervention approaches to disease;
•    Demonstrate an awareness of ethical practices and professional standards applicable to the field of health care;
•    Exemplify the skills, attitudes and behaviours required to work and collaborate with people and develop personal management skills;
•    Employ effective communication practices.

Who should take this program? 
•    Anyone working in the health care industry looking to advance their career;
•    Anyone looking to enter the health care;
•    Internationally trained professionals who require some Canadian health care education;
•    Individuals who require academic upgrading, or refreshing of past courses in health care;
•    Applicants to CCE's Health Information Management and Health Informatics diploma programs may pursue the certificate as part of the required pre-requisites for admission.

 

• an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent;
• be a mature student as defined in the Undergraduate Calendar of McMaster University; or,
• be deemed an exceptional case.

Academic Credit – 15 Units
Students must complete 5 of the 6 courses (15 units) in order to qualify for the Canadian Health Care Certificate.
Completion of Pathophysiology I is required prior to the start of Pathophysiology II.

Courses include:
HTH 100   Understanding the Canadian Health Care System
HTH  300  Anatomy and Physiology
HTH 200   Medical Terminology
HTH 116    Pathophysiology I
HTH 117   Pathophysiology II
HTH 400   Foundations in Epidemiology  

 

Note: Check with the institution regarding start/ end dates, prices, and delivery method. These may vary according to the program, section, and/or semester.