Introducing our Certificate In Pathways to Health Professions
Looking to demonstrate your early commitment to the health care profession? The U of T Scarborough’s Certificate in Pathways to Health Professions is designed to prepare you for career success and provide a competitive advantage.
As a student in the Health Sciences stream, you have the opportunity to complete this certificate while you earn your Honours Bachelor of Science degree. This unique certification will expand your knowledge and cultivate skills like leadership, communication, equity, and critical thinking—areas that are essential in health care. You’ll also have the opportunity for hands-on experience through paid co-op terms with some of the region’s top hospitals, companies, and research institutes, such as SickKids, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), University Health Network (UHN), and Baycrest.
All students who graduate in the U of T Scarborough Health Sciences Stream will receive a Hons BSc and the Certificate in Pathways to Health Professions. At this time, this certification is only open to students coming directly from high school.
Coursework
Community-Engaged Learning
Professional Development
Provides a rich learning experience grounded in the principles and practice of inclusive, integrated health and social medicine.
Expand your knowledge and cultivate skills like leadership, communication, equity, and critical thinking—areas that are essential in health care.
Health Professions Certificate Courses
These are some of the over 80 courses available within the certificate in pathways to health professions. For a full course listing, please visit the U of T Scarborough Academic Calendar.
Complex Systems, Structures and Settings
- Introduction to Anthropology: Society, Culture & Language
- Culture, Mental Illness, & Psychiatry
- Human Health and Environment
- Biomedical Anthropology
- Introduction to International/Global Health
- Geographies of Disease
- Health Policy & Health Systems
- Advanced Topics in Health and Society
- Politics of Canadian Health Policy
- Comparative Health Policy Systems
- Introduction to Planet Earth
- The Politics of Care, Self-Care & Mutual Aid
- Global Health Governance
- Feeding Humans – The Cost to the Planet
- Health Professions Education
Cultures, Communities and Care
- Introduction to Anthropology, Becoming Human
- Equity and Diversity in the Arts
- Caveman, Farmer, Herder, Trader : Evolution of Diet in Society
- Medical Anthropology:
Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective - Social Planning & Community Development
- Health & Sexuality
- Social Determinants of Health
- Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
- Perspectives of Culture, Illness and Healing
- Prejudice and Racism
- Cross-Cultural Social Psychology
- Foundations in Community Psychology
- Community & Applied Social Psychology
- Social Inequality
- Sociology of Gender
- Indigenous Health
- Intersections of Inequality
Critical and Creative Thinking
- Contemporary Human Evolution & Variation
- Medical Anthropology: Biological and Demographic Perspectives
- Deconstructing Epidemics
- Evolutionary Anthropology
- An Introduction to Bias in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine)
- Introduction to Computational Biology
- Introduction to Web Development and Applications
- Literature and Science
- Health Research Methodologies
- Introduction to Green Chemistry
- The Magic of Numbers
- Programming of Linguistics
- Biomedical Ethics
- Reason and Truth
- Biomedical Ethics
- Computers in Psychological Research: Advanced Topics
- Social Cognition : Understanding Ourselves and Others
- Statistics I
- An Introduction to Probability
- Introduction to Applied Probability
- Psychology in Context
Communication and Leadership
- Global Health Governance: Thinking Alongside the World’s Leaders
- Managing the Business Organization
- Program Evaluation
- Scientific Communication in Psychology
- Judgment and Decision-Making
- Reasoning Under Uncertainty
