Graduate
Graduate studies
Our graduate programs in health information science nourish the next generation of health informatics experts. Our world-class faculty, students and researchers are making an impact with a focus on the planning, design, implementation and evaluation of digital health information systems in diverse health care settings.
We are global leaders in health informatics education and research and our programs are a model that has been implemented around the world.
The School of Health Information Science also offers two undergraduate degree programs -
- Our programs
- Additional information
- Professional Conduct
- Student Publications
- Completed Oral Examinations
We offer four graduate programs:
- MSc in Health Informatics
- Double Degree - Master in Nursing and MSc in Health Informatics
- PhD in Health Informatics
- Graduate Certificate in Health Terminology and Interoperability Standards
Co-op option
We offer our graduate students an optional co-op opportunity, which provides paid, hands-on employment experience in health informatics.
Advising
If you need advice regarding eligibility for our graduate programs, course selection or choosing a supervisor, please contact our Graduate Advisor.
If you need other assistance including course registration or obtaining forms, please contact our Graduate Program Assistant.
- Are you looking for general information regarding Graduate Studies at UVic?
- Are you looking for a list of Health Information Science graduate courses?
- Need to know how to format your papers and citations?
- Do you want to know more about Graduate admissions?
- Do you want to know more about Graduate registration?
- Do you want to know more about the Health Information Science Graduate calendar?
- Are you interested in knowing more about supervisor-student relationships?
- Looking for a blank copy of Annual Review checklist MSc or PhD?
- Looking for PhD Candidacy Exam Formats?
- HINF Graduate Student Handbook 2024-2025
Feel free to contact our Graduate Program Assistant for any questions or clarifications.
All students in the School of Health Information Science must follow the Guidelines for Professional Conduct. The faculty supports models for professional conduct based on the following guidelines:
- Submission of oneself to a professional code of ethics
- Exercise of personal discipline, accountability and judgement
- Acceptance of personal responsibility for continued competency and learning
- Willingness to serve the public, client or patient and place them before oneself
- Ability to recognize one’s own limitations
- Maintenance of confidentiality of information (including all electronic communication) appropriate to the purposes and trust given when that information was acquired
- Acceptance that one’s professional abilities, personal integrity and the attitudes one demonstrates in relationships with other persons are the measures of professional conduct
Health Informatics Professionals are embedded in a web of relationships that are subject to important ethical constraints. These include professional relationships with health care professionals, researchers, health care institutions and other agencies as well working with the relationships of digital health information and the subjects of those records within in our professional practice. Several codes of ethics guide our professional conduct:
- International Medical Informatics Association Code of Ethics 2016
- Canadian College of Health Information Management code of ethics
- Canadian College of Health Leaders Code of Ethics
- San’yas Cultural Safety Training
If you are a current student and have had a journal paper or indexed conference proceeding accepted or published, please share this information with our office so we can recognize your achievement. Please send the full citation in APA format to the Graduate Program Assistant.
A list of publications that our students have authored or co-authored papers that have been accepted for publication can be found here.
A list of HINF Graduate Completed Oral Examinations can be found here.