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 1 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
Emergency Medicine - outside-funded candidatesUniversity of Ottawa · ONPractising physicians	12 months	4 PGY3 positions (CaRMS)	FM residents via CaRMS; also practising family physicians and other candidates with outside funding	Outside (candidate-brought) funding; source and amounts not stated (unclear 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.