Enhanced skills outside the CaRMS match

Family medicine training that schools fill themselves, not through CaRMS’s FM/ES match: Category 2 programs (school-set objectives, no CFPC Certificate of Added Competence), clinician scholar programs, Quebec’s programmes de compétences avancées, and seats for practising family physicians. 82 offerings at 17 of 18 departments, from each school’s own pages, checked 10 Oct 2026. Confirm on the school’s page before you apply.

Not part of the CaRMS match

You apply to the school, on its own dates. Most 2027–28 deadlines were in September 2026; Quebec’s run later, to December and February.
Offers can come before CaRMS’s rank-list deadline. At Western (opens in a new tab), accepting a Category 2 offer before the rank-list deadline means withdrawing from the CaRMS match.
Funding differs by school and by applicant: provincially funded PGY-3 seats, re-entry funding for practising physicians, return of service, or self-funding. Each row gives what the school or province says.

Showing 2 of 82, sorted by school. Open or closed is as of 10 Oct 2026, when we read each school’s page, and a date that has passed reads Closed.

Family medicine enhanced skills offerings applied for at the school, outside the CaRMS match
Program	Length	Positions	Who can apply	Funding and obligations	Applications, 2027–28
Programme de compétences avancées en soins aux personnes âgées (trois mois)Care of the elderly, 3 monthsUniversité de Montréal · QCDES de compétence additionnelle	3 months	Not stated on the school’s page	Residents finishing the 2-year program or practising physicians	Not stated on the school’s page	Date unclear on the school’s page
Soins palliatifs - programme de 3 mois (formation supplémentaire)Palliative care, 3 monthsUniversité de Montréal · QCFormation complémentaire	3 months	Not stated on the school’s page	residents finishing and recently graduated practising physicians	Not stated on the school’s page	No dates published

From each school’s own web pages, checked 10 Oct 2026; facts and links only. Schools change these pages through the year, and some don’t publish positions, funding or dates. Not listed here: Royal College Areas of Focused Competence (AFC) diplomas and unaccredited fellowships. Always confirm on the school’s page before you apply.