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Halifax - Family Medicine - Care of the Elderly

Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova ScotiaCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
76–100%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Interviews

2 dates, 16 Oct – 13 Nov 2026virtual

Halifax, 8 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • More than half of graduates (13 of 25) were re-entry community physicians.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Optional weekly half-day back in a family medicine clinic or long-term care facility.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a 1-year Care of the Elderly enhanced skills program based at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.
  • Rotations include geriatric day hospital, consults, a 12-week ambulatory clinic, geriatric psychiatry, community geriatrics and palliative care.
  • Depending on capacity, placements may be assigned to distributed sites across the Maritime provinces, and a resident project paper and presentations are required.

The summary is written by CdnMD from the program’s CaRMS description.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Research
Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Geriatric Day Hospital (4 weeks · QEII Health Sciences Centre.)
  • Geriatric Consults (8 weeks · QEII Health Sciences Centre.)
  • Geriatric Ambulatory Clinic (12 weeks · QEII Health Sciences Centre.)
  • Geriatric Psychiatry: Seniors Mental Health (8 weeks · Nova Scotia Hospital and/or QEII Health Sciences Centre.)
  • Community Geriatrics (4 weeks · To be determined.)
  • Palliative Care (4 weeks · Victoria General Hospital or The Moncton Hospital.)
  • Selectives (e.g. Pharmacy, Long Term Care, Wound Care, Movement Disorders) (4 weeks · To be determined.)
  • Electives (8 weeks · To be determined.)

✓ = the CaRMS page states it; – = not stated. From the program description and its rotation list.

Where you train

Halifax, Nova Scotia: 8 teaching sites.

  • QEII Health Sciences Centre
  • QEII Health Sciences Centre, Veterans' Memorial Building
  • QEII Health Sciences Centre, Abbie J. Lane Building
  • QEII Health Sciences Centre, Centennial Building
  • Victoria General Hospital
  • Nova Scotia Hospital (Dartmouth)
  • Moncton Hospital, Horizon Health Network (Moncton · rural or distributed site)
  • Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital (Fredericton · rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 2 of 8; no published record for 6.

Hospital facts

8 sites · public figures and clinical record systems where they are published

Public figures for hospitals named above, each with its source and reference period. They describe the hospital, not the program. We match names to the sources by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

Clinical record
One Person One Record, fully electronic record since May 2026 As of 31 Oct 2026. At QEII Health Sciences Centre, Victoria General Hospital.

How to read the figures

  • Hospital type. As the province lists it. The list has no volumes or beds.
  • Inpatient beds. As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

QEII Health Sciences Centre

This name covers 2 hospitals in the province’s lists. Each is shown on its own, A to Z, and the numbers are never added together.

QEII - Halifax Infirmary Site (Halifax)
Hospital type
Tertiary
QEII - Victoria General (VG) Site (Halifax)
Hospital type
Tertiary

QEII Health Sciences Centre, Veterans' Memorial Building

Matched to QEII - Halifax Infirmary Site (Halifax) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Tertiary

QEII Health Sciences Centre, Abbie J. Lane Building

Matched to QEII - Halifax Infirmary Site (Halifax) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Tertiary
Show facts for 5 more sites

QEII Health Sciences Centre, Centennial Building

Matched to QEII - Victoria General (VG) Site (Halifax) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Tertiary

Victoria General Hospital

Matched to QEII - Victoria General (VG) Site (Halifax) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Tertiary

Nova Scotia Hospital

Matched to The Nova Scotia Hospital (Dartmouth) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Tertiary

Moncton Hospital, Horizon Health Network

Matched to The Moncton Hospital / L’Hôpital de Moncton (Moncton) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds
381

Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital

Matched to Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital / Hôpital régional Dr Everett Chalmers (Fredericton) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds
314

Nova Scotia's One Person One Record is live at IWK Health and at Nova Scotia Health's Central Zone. The other zones follow, provincewide by the end of 2026 (the province's date). As of 31 Oct 2026

Verify with the official source: each source button opens the publisher’s own page.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – New Brunswick.
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia.

About Halifax

  • People

    439,819residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Halifax

  • Housing

    2.6%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Halifax, Nova Scotia (census metropolitan area)

  • Winter and summer

    −4.1 °CJanuary mean18.5 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Shearwater, 11.0 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Halifax (its page: housing, getting around, weather, things to do, and every program that names it)

Sites as the program’s CaRMS page lists them. City figures are public statistics for the place named by the location; they describe the place, not the program.

How they choose

Application file components
  • CV
  • Electives
  • Examinations
  • Extra-curricular
  • Leadership skills
  • MSPRs
  • Personal letters
  • Reference documents
  • Research/Publications
  • Transcripts
Return of service
Not stated on CaRMS page

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
16 Oct 2026; 13 Nov 2026
Format
Virtual
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)
  • Panel

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

Pay and call

Provincial scale, last updated 24 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). One provincial scale for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

Annual salary by PGY level, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$89,462 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (provincial max)
1 night in 4 in-house
Post-call rule (provincial)
No work required once handover is completed
Max continuous duty (provincial)
Handover begins by the 24th consecutive hour on duty

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. MarDocs agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Benefits

13 lines as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024: Annual vacation, Call stipend, CMPA dues paid, and more
Annual vacation
4 weeks
Call stipend
Yes
CMPA dues paid
Yes
Dental coverage
Yes
Educational leave
Yes
Extended health insurance
Yes
Life insurance
$100,000 of insurance
Long-term disabilityinsurance
66.7% of salary
Maternity leave top up after one year’s service
eligible for up to a maximum of 17 weeks top-up allowance for maternity/pregnancy leave
Provincial dues (% of salary)
1.30%
Provincial health insurance
Yes
Sick leave
Yes
Statutory and floating holidays
paid

Contacts and links

Program director
Program office

Enhanced Skills Care of the Elderly Program Administrator

Write to the officefmes@dal.ca

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.

Dalhousie Enhanced Skills - Care of the Elderly (COE)(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Care of the Elderly elsewhere

Nearest to Halifax

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · FM/ES 2027 match · last approved 27 Jul 2026.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34599 · How these pages are made ›

The Applications per year and Offered interviews figures are 5-year averages the program reports to CaRMS: past cycles, not your odds.

Independent. Not affiliated with CaRMS or the program. Programs edit their descriptions during the match; confirm on carms.ca (opens in a new tab) before you apply. Data last updated on CdnMD 8 Oct 2026.

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