Halifax - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine
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
- 4
- Length
- 1
- Applications per year
- 51–200
- Offered interviews
- 26–50%
Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
2 dates, 29–30 Oct 2026
Halifax, 8 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Required 4-week trauma rotation at Sunnybrook or St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Longitudinal toxicology training through the IWK Health Centre Poison Control Centre.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Simulation includes high-fidelity cadaver-based sessions and an abbreviated AIME airway course.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
- Dalhousie's Enhanced Skills in Emergency Medicine program is a 1-year residency leading to a recommendation for the CFPC(EM) certificate.
- Training is centred at the QEII Health Sciences Centre and IWK Health Centre in Halifax, with rotations at Saint John Regional Hospital and Dartmouth General Hospital.
Based on what the program says about itself.
- You’re open to training at sites across a region, not at one hospital.
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What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Urban community
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Focus areas
- POCUS curriculum
- Small program
- Indigenous health
- Research
- Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- Anesthesia (4 weeks · Saint John Regional Hospital)
- Emergency Medicine (12 weeks · QEII Health Sciences Centre)
- Emergency Medicine (4 weeks · Community Hospital - Dartmouth General Hospital)
- Emergency Medicine (4 weeks · Selective EM choice that is a CFPC accredited training site)
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine (4 weeks · IWK Health Centre)
- ICU (8 weeks · QEII Health Sciences Centre)
- CCU (4 weeks · QEII Health Sciences Centre)
- Combined Orthopedic/Plastic Surgery (4 weeks · Saint John Regional Hospital)
- Elective (4 weeks · To be determined)
- Trauma Rotation (4 weeks · Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre or St. Michael's Hospital)
Where you train
Halifax, Nova Scotia: 8 teaching sites.
- QEII Health Sciences Centre, Charles V. Keating Emergency & Trauma Department
- IWK Health Centre
- Dartmouth General Hospital (Dartmouth)
- Saint John Regional Hospital, Horizon Health Network (Saint John)
- Moncton Hospital, Horizon Health Network (Moncton · rural or distributed site)
- Valley Regional Hospital (Kentville · rural or distributed site)
- St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto)
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto)
Distributed across a region
Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 3 of 8; no published record for 5.
Moving to a new system: Valley Regional Hospital (by Dec 2026).
Hospital facts
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.
QEII Health Sciences Centre, Charles V. Keating Emergency & Trauma Department
- Hospital type
- Tertiary
IWK Health Centre
- Clinical record
- Oracle Health (One Person One Record), fully electronic record since Dec 2025
- Hospital type
- Tertiary
Dartmouth General Hospital
- Clinical record
- One Person One Record, fully electronic record since May 2026
- Hospital type
- Regional
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Saint John Regional Hospital, Horizon Health Network
- Inpatient beds
- 445
Moncton Hospital, Horizon Health Network
- Inpatient beds
- 381
Valley Regional Hospital
- Clinical record
- One Person One Record, moving to a new system, by Dec 2026
- Hospital type
- Regional
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).
About Halifax
People
439,819residents, 2021 Census
Housing
2.6%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
−4.1 °CJanuary mean18.5 °CJuly mean
Job outlook
not published for this specialty
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
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
- 29 and 30 Oct 2026
- Format
- Virtual
- Traditional (one on one/two on one)
- Panel
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-3 | $89,462 / year |
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
Benefits
- 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
Dr. Ryan HenneberryESEM Residency Program Director
- Program office
ESEM Residency Education Manager
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.
Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine elsewhere
Nearest to Halifax
- Bilingual
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