Diploma in Medical Records Technology is a diploma in Health Informatics programme offered by Collège Laflèche in Trois-Rivières, Canada. The programme runs for 3 years. Tuition for international students is CAD 6,767 per semester (CAD 2,290 per semester for local students).
Medical Records Technology (code 411.A0) is a technical Diplôme d'études collégiales (DEC) at Collège Laflèche that trains technicians to manage clinical health information. The curriculum combines medical and legal knowledge with specialized software training, teaching students to verify that patient files are complete and compliant, code diseases and procedures, produce statistics from file data, apply confidentiality legislation, and extract data for registries such as tumour and trauma registries. The college offers the program in a regular format, available in-class or fully online, and in a compressed intensive format delivered online only. Practical training begins with observation placements in the first year and continues with a longer hospital-based clinical placement and a placement in a CLSC or other specialized facility later in the program. It suits candidates interested in the intersection of healthcare, information technology, and legal compliance who are detail-oriented and comfortable handling confidential patient information.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission follows Collège Laflèche's general CEGEP admission conditions, which require a Quebec Diploma of Secondary Studies (DES) or a recognized equivalent, as set out on the college's admission page. The Medical Records Technology program (Archives médicales, 411.A0) additionally requires the Secondary 4 prerequisite Mathematics CST (or the former code 514). For the intensive online delivery option specifically, applicants must instead have completed, or be in the process of completing, the college-level general education component. The program states no language-proficiency test requirement and is not subject to a quota (aucun contingentement).
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Collège Laflèche takes applications directly rather than through a regional admission service (SRAM, SRACQ or SRAS), though applicants may also apply elsewhere through those services in parallel. Fall 2026 admission is already closed; for Winter 2027 entry the published rounds close 1 November 2026 (decision by 11 November, registration by 25 November), 14 January 2027, and 15 January 2027 for the first week of classes (registration by 21 January 2027). The college has not yet posted Fall 2027 deadlines. No distinct international closing date is published: the $50 CAD application fee applies equally to Canadian and international applicants, and late Winter admission continues on a rolling basis through the first week of classes. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
