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Most healthcare careers<\/a> require specialized training either through a diploma program or an advanced degree. A solid background in science is typically required. BC Institute of Technology (BCIT) <\/strong>\u2013 BCIT\u2019s school of health sciences offers programs in biomedical engineering, electrodiagnostics, food safety and processing, health management, health protection, laboratory sciences, medical imaging technologies, nursing and specialty nursing and therapeutics. Camosun College<\/strong> \u2013 offers a certified dental assistant certificate, first nations home support certificate, home support\/resident care, medical laboratory assistant, medical office assistant and pharmacy technician programs. Capilano College<\/strong> \u2013 offers a certificate in home support\/resident care, medical office assistant and a rehabilitation assistant diploma. College of New Caledonia <\/strong>\u2013 offers a dental assistant certificate, a certificate in home support\/resident care and a practical nursing certificate. College of the Rockies<\/strong> \u2013 offers a dental assistant certificate. Douglas College <\/strong>\u2013 offers programs in therapeutic recreation, dental assisting, dispensing optician, healthcare support, health information management and medical office assistant. Okanagan College <\/strong>\u2013 offers a certified dental assistant certificate. Simon Fraser University<\/strong> \u2013 offers a degree program in health science. University College of the Fraser Valley<\/strong> \u2013 offers a bachelor of science in nursing, a certified dental assistant certificate, a certificate in home support\/resident care and a practical nursing certificate. University of Northern BC<\/strong> \u2013 offers a bachelor of health sciences degree program and a certificate in aboriginal health sciences. University of Victoria<\/strong> \u2013 offers degree programs in recreation and health education, health information science, food, nutrition and health and nursing. Read also:<\/p>\n Most healthcare careers require specialized training either through a diploma program or an advanced degree. A solid background in science is typically required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9608,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/9608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWhere Can I Get Training for a Career in Healthcare?<\/strong>
\nHealthcare and related training programs are available throughout BC at the following institutions:<\/p>\n
\nwww.bcit.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.camosun.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.capcollege.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.cnc.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.cotr.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.douglas.bc.ca
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\nKwantlen University College<\/strong> \u2013 offers a bachelor of psychiatric nursing, a gerontology-based therapeutic recreation certificate and a certificate in home support\/resident care.
\nwww.kwantlen.bc.ca<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nwww.okanagan.bc.ca
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\nSelkirk College<\/strong> \u2013 offers a medical transcription program.
\nwww.selkirk.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.sfu.ca<\/a>
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\nThompson Rivers University<\/strong> \u2013 offers programs in animal health technology, anesthesia, home support, medical laboratory assistant, a bachelor of health science, a bachelor of science in nursing and pre-medical, pre-dentistry, pre-optometry, pre-pharmaceutical sciences, pre-veterinary and pre-naturopathic medicine programs.
\nwww.tru.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.ucfv.ca<\/a>
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\nUniversity of British Columbia<\/strong> \u2013 UBC has the only faculty of medicine in BC, and offers the following programs: doctor of medicine (MD), 62 postgraduate medicine (residency) training programs, bachelor of medical laboratory science, bachelor of midwifery, master of occupational therapy, master of physical therapy, master of science and PhD programs in basic and clinical sciences, and audiology and speech sciences, master of health administration and a master of health science. Its distributed model means it operates campuses at the University of Victoria and University of Northern BC. It also operates hospital-based campuses for clinical teaching throughout BC.
\nwww.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.unbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
\nwww.uvic.ca<\/a>
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\nVancouver Community College<\/strong> \u2013 offers programs in practical nursing, home support\/resident care, autopsy technician, dental hygiene and technology, medical laboratory assistant, medical office assistant, medical transcription, occupational and physical therapist assistant, pharmacy technician and a practical nursing certificate.
\nwww.vcc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n