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HIM Course of Study

    The program consists of:

    • 11 Professionally Required Courses
    • 3 Professionally Related Required Courses
    • 4 Professionally Related Electives
    • 4 Upper Level Liberal Studies
    • 2 Practicum (1 Practicum seminar + 1 Practicum) these 2 courses are done in the same semester

      • Meeting course prerequisites is an important aspect of planning your course of study. View the required route of study below needed to meet requirements.

      **Please note, the initial letter "C" in the course code denotes that the course is taught through the Chang School for Continuing Education. If you are looking for the course in the Ryerson Calendar, the course code will appear without the "C" designation (ie: CHSM 301 will appear as HSM 301). These courses are equivalent in degree status.

    Professionally Required Courses

    The School recommends that students take CHSM 301 as their first course, as it is a pre-requisite for many program courses.

    LEVEL 1

    CHIM 300 - Managing Health Information Services

    CHIM 301 - Healthcare Information Analysis

    CHIM 302 - Health Information Systems Management

    CHSM 301 - The Healthcare System

    CHSM 326 - Law for Health Managers

    .LEVEL 1 - Professionally Related Required Courses

    CACC 100 - Introductory Financial Accountin

    CECN 104 - Introductory Microeconomics

    CECN 204 - Introductory Macroeconomics

    LEVEL 2

    CHIM 403 - Managerial Accounting and Finance

    CHIM 404 - Health Economics

    CHIM 405 - Issues in Health Information Management

    CHSM 408 - Program Planning and Evaluation

    CHSM 417 - Research Methodology

    CHSM 437 - Human Resource Management

    Professionally Related Electives
    Level 1 and 2

    Students must take 4 one-term courses from the following list.

    CGMS 422 - Quality Management

    CHSM 307 - Principles of Long Term Care and Service Delivery*

    CHSM 308 - Project Management: Long Term Care*

    CHSM 309 - Trends in Long Term Care Service Delivery*

    CHSM 310 - Institutional Structure*

    CINT 901 - Gerontology: Critical Issues and Future Trends

    CINT 902 - Disability Issues

    CINT 904 - Health Promotion and Community Development

    CINT 905 - Conflict Resolution in Community Services

    CINT 906 - Sexuality: Power and Pleasure

    CINT 907 - Team Work for Community Services

    CINT 908 - Homelessness in Canadian Society

    CINT 910 - First Nations Issues

    CINT 911 - International Community Development

    CINT 912 - Community Dev't: International Field Experience

    CINT 913 - Issues of MIgration

    CINT 914 - Settlement Experiences

    CINT 915 - Responses to MIgration

    CINT 916 - Introduction to Fundraising

    CINT 917 - Urban Community Development

    CINT 920 - Community Collaborations

    CITM 100 - Business and Information Systems

    CITM 102 - Business Information Systems 1

    CITM 305 - Systems Analysis and Design

    CITM 420 - Information Systems Security and Control

    ITM 425 - Software Evaluation Methods (may not be available through Chang School, please consult the ITM website for availability)

    CITM 500 - Database Analysis and Design

    CITM 505 - Managing Information Systems & Telecommunications

    CITM 595 - Auditing of Information Systems

    CITM 610 - Database Administration

    CMHR 522 - Industrial Relations

    CMKT 100 - Marketing

    * to be added to the curriculum as of the 2012-2013 Academic Calendar year

    Liberal Studies Electives

    In addition to the above courses students must also take 4 UPPER Level Liberal Studies Elective courses listed on Table B in the Part-time Degree calendar

    Practicum

    After completion of all Professionally Required courses listed above, all Professionally Related Required, Professionally Related Electives and Liberal Studies Electives, students are required to take the following:

    CHIM 406 - Practicum Seminar
    CHIM 407 - Practicum

Meeting prerequisites

The degree completion program of studies leading to a Bachelor of Health Administration (BHA) in Health Information Management is a part-time degree program for individuals with a preparation in the health information management field. The program has two levels (year-3 equivalent and year-4 equivalent of a four-year honours degree). Eligible individuals are required to complete 24 one-semester courses. Each level has three sections:

For further help with planning your course progression through the program, please click on the following link. This will provide an example of course sequence over 4, 5, 6, or 7 years. This document is provided as an EXAMPLE only.

Students are expected to pay attention to pre-requisites and are to enroll only in courses for which pre-requisites have been completed. Level 1 courses should be completed before attempting courses in the Level 2 cluster.

Recommended route of study:

Step 1: Complete all Level 1 requirements

Step 2: Complete all Upper Level Liberal Studies Electives (4 courses) and Professionally-Related Electives (4 courses).

Step 3. Complete Level 2 Required courses:


CHIM 406 & CHIM 407 are the Practicum and Practicum Seminar and will be your Final two courses.

If you are unable to take Level 1 and 2 courses in sequence you can always do either an Upper Level Liberal Elective or a Professionally Related Elective. Depending on when you entered the Program the Level 1 and 2 courses may not be offered in sequence with the required prerequisites.

 

 

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    View complete descriptions of HIM and HSM courses on the Ryerson online course calendar.

    Get the Student Handbook or download the course timetables here.

    Meeting course prerequisites is an important aspect of planning your course of study. View the required route of study below needed to meet requirements.