Medical Office Administration Certificate is a certificate in Health Sciences programme offered by Douglas College in New Westminster, Canada. The programme runs for 2 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 682 per credit (CAD 150 per credit for local students).
Training covers medical office administration procedures, including accurate communication with medical professionals and patients. Coursework spans patient scheduling and billing, medical and pharmaceutical terminology, medical transcription, physiology and anatomy, with clinical skills built through a three-week practicum. Graduates finish able to maintain both paper and electronic medical records and to manage an office while communicating effectively with medical staff and patients. After a year of work experience, graduates become eligible to sit the provincial Medical Office Assistant registration exam.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Academic entry follows Douglas College's General College Admission Requirements (https://www.douglascollege.ca/admissions/requirements-and-assessment-testing/general-college-admissions-requirements), with applicants also expected to meet Douglas College's institution-wide English Language Proficiency requirement: Grade 12 English at a minimum grade of C (English Studies 12, English First Peoples 12, or English 12) or Communications 12 at B, or a recognized test score such as IELTS Academic overall band 6.5, TOEFL iBT overall 4.5 with no section below 4.0, PTE Academic 56, Duolingo English Test 110, or CAEL 60. Beyond the academic route, the programme carries non-academic practicum conditions: before starting the MOAD 2600 Medical Office Practicum, students must complete a Criminal Record Check within one year of starting the programme and before the practicum, and must provide a current record of immunizations meeting whatever health-authority or public-health orders apply, at the student's own cost.
Application Details
Start Date:Douglas runs three fifteen-week semesters a year: Fall from September to December, Winter from January to April and Summer from May to August. The programme page lists intakes in Fall (September) and Winter (January). The Fall 2026 semester began on 8 September 2026 and Winter 2027 classes begin on 4 January 2027.
Application Deadline:Douglas publishes college-wide application windows rather than a single date for every programme, and the domestic and international timetables are different. DOMESTIC APPLICANTS apply on EducationPlannerBC. Applications for a semester open about eleven months ahead, at 9:00 a.m. on the first business day of the opening month: 1 October for the following Fall, 1 February for the following Winter. Douglas labels this an open-enrolment programme, so domestic online applications run until 4:00 p.m. on the Friday before the semester starts — that was 4 September 2026 for Fall 2026 and is 1 January 2027 for Winter 2027 — or until the seats are gone, whichever comes first. A late window (from 1 August for Fall, from 1 December for Winter) is open only to applicants who have already met every admission requirement and can hand over documents at once. INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS: this programme page carries no international application block, so confirm with Douglas International Admissions that the programme is open to you before applying. The college-wide international dates are 30 September 2026 for Winter (January) 2027 and 31 January 2027 for Summer (May) 2027; the Fall (September) 2026 intake closed on 31 May 2026. Read from the programme page and the college deadline pages on 6 September 2026; Douglas had not yet published Summer 2027 domestic closing dates.
