Douglas College offers Health Information Management Post-Baccalaureate Diploma, a postgraduate diploma in Health Sciences programme in New Westminster, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 5,900 per total for local students.
Study centres on managing information that is critical to patient safety across health-care settings, through courses spanning project management, information technology, business leadership and health information science, alongside practicum placements. Coding instruction includes working alongside expert data coders and assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures. A six-week placement rotates students through departments such as quality improvement, information governance, data analytics, management or health informatics, and the final semester includes job-shadowing healthcare professionals. Graduates finish able to offer expertise in data collection, analytics and security.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission is first-qualified, first-admitted, on top of the Douglas general admission requirements. CREDENTIAL: an undergraduate degree from a recognised Canadian post-secondary institution, or an approved equivalent from another country; anyone whose credential was earned in a language other than English must meet the Douglas English proficiency requirement. PREREQUISITE COURSES, at C+ or better (or equivalent) where they were not part of the degree: ENGL 1130 Academic Writing, BIOL 1103 Human Anatomy and Physiology I, BIOL 1203 Human Anatomy and Physiology II, CSIS 1190 Excel for Business, and one of BUSN 2429 Business Statistics, MATH 1160 Introduction to Statistics or PSYC 2300 Data Analysis in Psychology — each three credits. MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY: an approved medical terminology course passed at 75 percent or better; the department publishes the approved list, and a course that is not on it must be submitted to the Health Information Management coordinator for an equivalency decision. COMPUTER LITERACY: entry-level competence with Microsoft Office, including basic Microsoft Access. BRIEFING SESSION: attendance at a compulsory group briefing run by the HIM faculty in the spring of the entering year; applicants are told the date. NON-ACADEMIC: a criminal record check dated within the year before the programme starts, at the applicant's cost. This programme page shows no international application block, so international applicants should confirm with Douglas International Admissions that it is open to them before applying; where it is, the college's separately published international academic and English standards apply on top of anything listed here.
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). 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. Douglas labels this a limited-enrolment programme, so it sets no single fixed closing date: the round shuts when the intake fills, and the college’s own test is whether the programme still appears in the EducationPlannerBC drop-down list. Applicants are acknowledged in writing about two to three weeks after applying, and qualified applicants are then ranked against the programme’s published criteria. 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.
