Allied Health Sciences – Bridge

General information

The Bachelor of Allied Health Sciences (Honours) is a career-oriented program intended to serve the educational needs of graduates from a professional diploma in allied health programs or disciplines (e.g., nurses, massage therapy, paramedics, pharmacy technicians, dental hygienists etc.) This opportunity will prepare allied health professionals to fill leadership and teaching positions in the evolving health care system.

The Bachelor of Allied Health Sciences (Honours) is an interdisciplinary and multi-focused undergraduate degree designed to engage students in the examination of diverse aspects of health, health care delivery, and interdisciplinary research.The program is designed to enrich the specific credentials of diploma graduates with additional breadth and depth of knowledge of health care and of the disciplines and professions that work in the integrated system. The university intends to provide Ontario with efficient and well-educated health workers ready to take on leadership roles.

Admission requirements

Admission is competitive. The specific average or standing required for admission varies from year to year. Students are selected by taking into consideration a wide range of criteria including school marks, distribution of subjects taken, and performance in subjects relevant to the academic program. Possession of the minimum requirements does not guarantee acceptance. Preference will be given to applicants with the best qualifications.

Individuals seeking admission to the honours Bachelor of Allied Health Sciences program must be graduates from one of the identified health professional Ontario college diploma programs (or equivalent) with a cumulative GPA of 2.7 or higher (on a 4 point scale).

Students entering the program from the Georgian College Social Services Worker program will need to complete an additional course in Medical Terminology through Ontario Learn by October 15 of their first semester of BAHSc enrolment. Students from other Social Services Worker programs will also need to meet this requirement if they have not already completed a Medical Terminology course.

Students must complete the following bridging courses with a minimum 2.3 GPA (on a 4.3 point scale) or higher in each:

• HLSC 1701U – Information Literacy and Written Communication for the Health Sciences
• HLSC 2700U – Mathematical Reasoning in Health Sciences

Program details and degree requirements

120 credits including:

• a) 57 credits block standing for credits obtained in previous health-related diploma

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  b) Elective requirements: 15 credit hours

  
  Note: students interested in pursuing the Work Disability Prevention (WDP) postgraduate diploma have the option to take some or all of the following four elective courses which are included in the initial core of the WDP, which would then be recognized as counting towards their WDP requirements:
   

• HLSC 4670U – Studies in Work Disability Prevention
• HLSC 4672U – Making A Work Disability Diagnosis
• HLSC 4674U – Coordinating Return to Work
• HLSC 4676U – Occupational Ergonomics and Work Disability

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  c) Major requirements - 48 credit hours including:

   

• HLSC 1701U – Information Literacy and Written Communication for the Health Sciences
• HLSC 1811U – Social Determinants of Health
• HLSC 2601U – Introduction to Health Services Management
• HLSC 2700U – Mathematical Reasoning in Health Sciences
• HLSC 2802U – Introduction to the Canadian Healthcare System
• HLSC 3631U – Health Policy and Process
• HLSC 3710U – Ethics
• HLSC 3800U – Introduction to Statistics for Health Sciences
• HLSC 3805U – Introduction to Epidemiology
• HLSC 3820U – Public Health I
• HLSC 3910U – Research Methods for Health Care Professionals: Theory and Application
• HLSC 4807U – Perspectives in Aging
• HLSC 4820U – Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• HLSC 4851U – Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Healthcare

• One pair of:

• HLSC 4996U – Research Applications I and HLSC 4997U – Research Applications II   

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• HLSC 4998U – Research Practicum I and HLSC 4999U – Research Practicum II