Offered by Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada, PGCert in Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography is a postgraduate certificate in Biomedical & Laboratory Sciences programme. The programme runs for 4 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 2,007 per semester for local students.
This postgraduate certificate combines classroom, lab, simulation and clinical experience to train students to deliver cardiac diagnostic images and data via sonographic technology, working as part of an inter-professional team. Learning outcomes align with the Sonography Canada national competency profile, and completion together with registration with Sonography Canada allows graduates to seek registration with Ontario's College of Medical Radiation and Imaging Technologists for licensure. Coursework develops theoretical and clinical competency in cardiac sonography, including the application of sonographic physics principles for safety and quality assurance, critical thinking and problem-solving while assessing hemodynamics and imaging complex cardiac anatomy, and patient care and communication aligned with professional standards, ethics and legal requirements. The program is structured as two semesters of classroom and lab instruction followed by two semesters of clinical placement.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry is restricted to people already qualified in a health profession - there is no route from secondary school. Mohawk marks the program competitive and late-release, with equal consideration dates of 1 February for the September start and 1 October for the May start.
ACADEMIC ENTRY, one of: registration as a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer; or a two-year registered health-professions diploma that included six credit hours of human anatomy and physiology (or equivalent) plus six further health-care credit hours such as ethics, psychology, patient care or medical research - Mohawk names medical radiation technologist, respiratory therapist, registered practical nurse, cardiovascular technologist, registered massage therapist and OTA/PTA among the qualifying professions; or a bachelor's or master's degree in a registered health profession with the same six-plus-six credit-hour pattern, for example BSc or BA Kinesiology, BScN, Bachelor of Medical Radiation Sciences, Bachelor of Health Sciences, MSc OT or MSc PT. Anyone who has not practised in their profession within the last five years is not eligible.
MANDATORY EXTRA MATERIAL, all of it sent to ontariocolleges.ca: official transcripts for every post-secondary credential; a current resume, on Mohawk's template, setting out how long and at what level you have given patient care and naming the courses and course codes you are relying on; and a copy of your current professional registration or licence. Document cut-offs are firm - 31 January for a spring start and 16 February for a fall start - and Mohawk states that late documents and incomplete applications are not reviewed.
ENGLISH, where it is a second language: Mohawk will not score an application without a TOEFL or IELTS Academic result. It requires TOEFL iBT 98 taken within two years of applying, with at least 24 in reading, listening and writing and 26 in speaking, or IELTS Academic 7.0 with no band under 6.5.
Application Details
Start Date:Starts Mohawk lists on this program’s own page, checked 6 September 2026. Domestic applicants: September 2026 at Institute for Applied Health Sciences at McMaster (IH); May 2027 at Institute for Applied Health Sciences at McMaster (IH). Mohawk’s page lists no international intake table for this program, so international applicants should confirm with Mohawk International that the program is open to them before applying. Mohawk runs a Fall term from September, a Winter term from January and a Spring/Summer term from May; not every program runs every term, and the seat status shown beside a start (open, waitlist, closed) moves as intakes fill.
Application Deadline:This program’s own page prints the equal consideration date, so the date below is the one Mohawk states for it.
DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through ontariocolleges.ca. Equal consideration date: 1 February for a September start; 1 October for a May start. Applications that reach Ontario Colleges by then are read together in the first round of offers. Applying afterwards is still allowed, but remaining seats go first-come, first-served, and a competitive program is usually full by that point. Where a program draws more qualified applicants than it has seats, Mohawk ranks them on the average of their highest senior-level final grades in the required courses, and offers go to Ontario permanent residents first, then residents of other Canadian provinces and territories, then international applicants. Mohawk flags this as a late-release program, meaning its offers go out later than the general schedule rather than from the usual first-round date.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS (citizens of another country without Canadian permanent residence) do not use the equal consideration dates. Mohawk lists no international intake for this program at the time of writing, so there is no international deadline to quote; contact Mohawk International before assuming a seat exists.
This program also sets its own document cut-offs, which are earlier than the application date and are firm: for a Spring start every required document must reach Ontario Colleges by 31 January, and for a Fall start by 16 February. Mohawk states that documentation arriving later, and incomplete applications, are not reviewed.
