Graduate Certificate in Health Terminology and Interoperability Standards

^{Prior to May 1st, 2024 the certificate was known as the Health Terminology Standards Certificate. The name has changed but the program remains the same.}

Want to improve the sharing of patient information across systems?

Certificate Info Session Fall 2024 Entry

To learn more about the certificate program, we invite you to watch the video recording of our Information Session, click here. 

About the program

The Graduate Certificate in Health Terminology Interoperability Standards is a 1-year, part-time program with four graduate level courses done through weekly online evening classes and a virtual workshop.

If you work in the health industry and are involved with or have an interest in health terminologies and standards, interoperable electronic health record, and clinical coding and classification, then this Certificate is for you. The program is intended to meet national and international needs for best practices in controlled terminologies used in the health industry.

Graduates of this program are eligible for the Canadian College of Health Information Management Terminology Standards Specialist Certification.

To apply, you need to have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution. If you do not have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution, but if you have significant relevant work experience, you are encouraged to apply for admission consideration.

Those accepted into the MSc program in Health Informatics at the School can also apply the certificate courses toward their MSc degree.

To learn more about the certificate program, we invite you to watch the video recording of our Information Session, click here.

For more information about the Health Terminology and Interoperability Standards and Certificates please contact:

Simon Minshall, Health Terminology and Interoperability Standards Certificate Coordinator:

htscoord@uvic.ca

Olena Marun, Health Terminology and Interoperability Standards Certificate Administrative Assistant: 

hiscertadmin@uvic.ca

The application deadline for the Graduate Certificate in Health Terminology and Interoperability Standards program for September entry is June 1 and January entry is October 1.