The public college system in Ontario offers certificates in medical office administration that range from 42-week accelerated courses to sessions that last two academic years. The courses are offered at campuses across the public colleges' 28-college system. Application is not generally competitive, but they are often wait-listed so they may require advanced registration. The two-year curriculum for health administration program includes instruction in biomedical sciences, health informatics, health record systems, medical classification systems and coding, as well as data collection, statistical analysis and presentation. Graduates from the two-year course should be prepared to pass the Canadian Health Information Management Association national certification examination. The programs have intensive schedules and are focused on office administration.
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Students can earn degrees in health care administration with an academic focus at the province's several universities. York University (yorku.ca) offers undergraduate degrees in health policy and graduate degrees in health administration. The University of Toronto (utoronto.ca) has an academic department dedicated to health policy and awards graduate and undergraduate degrees. University of Ottowa (uottowa.ca) has a Masters in Health Administration program, while McMaster University (mcmaster.ca) awards master's degrees in Health Services Management, and Ryerson University (ryerson.ca) offers a part-time undergraduate program in health services management, which awards a bachelor's degree.
For-profit colleges offering degrees in health care administration in Ontario include Everest College (everest.edu), Medix School (medixschool.edu), which focuses all its program on the health care field, and Herzing College (herzing.edu/ca).
Not all Everest Colleges are accredited, but Medix Schools and Herzing College are. These schools generally have several campuses throughout the region and offer instruction in French or English. CDI colleges (cdicollege.ca), which also offer health administration courses, are part of the Everest College system.