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Human Health Science

The Human Health Specialization will prepare you for health-related post-graduate studies such as medicine, epidemiology, and dentistry. You will take upper-year electives that extend your knowledge in core areas, and integrate a critical knowledge and understanding of the health-care system in Canada. The Human Health Science specialization offers you an opportunity to learn a broad range of topics related to health. This specialization focuses on the fundamental areas of science as it relates to human health and disease including:

  • anatomy and physiology
  • microbiology
  • neurophysiology
  • pathophysiology

You will take upper-year electives that extend knowledge in these core areas as well as integrate critical knowledge and understanding of the health-care system in Canada.

Admission into the Human Health Specialization program

The Human Health Science Specialization offers two entry points for students: 

  1. Students may declare their interest in the Human Health Science Specialization during the OUAC admission process (students accepted via the OUAC admission process are required to maintain a 3.3 cumulative GPA during the year.
  2. Students may choose to complete their first-year courses and declare their interest for admission to the Human Health Science Specialization upon completion of Year 1. During Year 1, they will be placed in the Public Health specialization. A minimum of 15 spaces in Human Health Science will have been reserved for students who would like to be admitted after year 1. Admission will be based on the competitive process of highest-ranked cumulative GPA. 

Important to note is that any student who fails to achieve a 3.3 cumulative GPA will need to reapply to Human Health Science prior to the beginning of second year. Their readmission to Human Health Science will be competitive according to highest-ranked cumulative GPAs. 

Additional students, beyond the 15 reserved spaces, may be admitted to the Human Health Science specialization as part of the competitive process when students accepted into Human Health Science in Year 1 are re-applying after failing to achieve a 3.3 cumulative GPA. Thus, the number of new additions to Human Health Science at the end of Year 1 will vary according to this competitive process. 

Beyond Year 2, there may be an opportunity for students in Public Health to enter Human Health Science if the number of students admitted to Human Health Science has dropped below the cap of 60. Students wishing to apply at this stage will be expected to have completed or be in the process of completing CHEM 1010U Chemistry I, CHEM 1020U Chemistry II, and HLSC 2465U Anatomy and Physiology III: Cells and Tissues.