Cape Breton - Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine

Dalhousie UniversityCape Breton, Nova ScotiaCMG stream

Approx. quota: 3 positions
Length: 3 years
Applications per year: 401–600
Offered interviews: 76–100%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Info session

all 3

Thu 5 Nov 2026,7:00–9:00 pm AST

Interviews

1 date, 25 Jan 2027virtual

Cape Breton, 9 teaching sites · required rural rotation

A car is required

After residency in Nova Scotia: hours-based model open to new graduates

Program website CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Integrates the two-year family medicine and one-year emergency medicine enhanced skills training into a single three-year program.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Funded ECCU POCUS certification in second year.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
PGY3 trauma rotation targeted at Toronto trauma centres, focused on trauma team leader experience.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

This three-year program in Sydney, Cape Breton, integrates family medicine with enhanced skills in emergency medicine.
Residents train at Cape Breton Regional Hospital and repeatedly return to a small rural community such as Baddeck or Cheticamp.
Residents complete 32 weeks of emergency medicine blocks plus longitudinal ED shifts, and a scholarly project is required.

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

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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In the second year, residents spend 12 weeks and in the third year 8 weeks, also in one of these communities.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting: Regional community
Rural / remote
Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure: Required rural rotation
Focus areas: Rural / remote
Longitudinal / integrated
POCUS curriculum
Research: Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
Enhanced skills: Emergency Medicine
Palliative Care
Care of the Elderly
Getting around: A car is required
Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
Travel is reimbursed

By year

PGY-1: Core Family Medicine12 weeks
Community Family Medicinesmall Maritime community8 weeks
Orientation in FM4 weeks
Emergency Medicine4 weeks
HospitalistCBRH4 weeks
General Surgery4 weeks
Obstetrics/GynecologySydney4 weeks
Orthopaedics4 weeks
Pediatrics4 weeks
Critical Care4 weeks
Family Medicine ObstetricsSaint John, NB4 weeks
Vacation4 weeks
PGY-2: Core Family Medicine16 weeks
Community Family Medicinesame small Maritime community from Year 116 weeks
Geriatric Medicine4 weeks
Palliative Care4 weeks
Emergency Medicine4 weeks
Internal Medicine4 weeks
Peds EmergIWK, Halifax4 weeks
Critical Care4 weeks
Elective(s)4 weeks
Vacation4 weeks
PGY-3: Emergency Medicine16 weeks
Core Family Medicine8 weeks
Intensive Care Unit8 weeks
Community Family Medicineone of our rural sites8 weeks
Critical Care4 weeks
TraumaSt. Mike's or Sunnybrook in Toronto (location TBD)4 weeks
Elective4 weeks
Vacation4 weeks

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

Where you train

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia: 9 teaching sites; required rural rotation. A car is required.

Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CBRH) (Sydney)
Baddeck (Baddeck · rural or distributed site)
Cheticamp (Cheticamp · rural or distributed site)
Arichat (Arichat · rural or distributed site)
Neil's Harbour (Neil's Harbour · rural or distributed site)
Inverness (Inverness · rural or distributed site)
IWK (Halifax)
St. Mike's (Toronto)
Sunnybrook (Toronto)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 2 of 9; no published record for 7.

Moving to a new system: Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CBRH) (by Dec 2026).

Hospital facts

2 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.

How to read the figures

Hospital type. As the province lists it. The list has no volumes or beds.

Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CBRH)

Clinical record: One Person One Record, moving to a new system, by Dec 2026 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Cape Breton Regional Hospital (Sydney) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type: Regional

IWK

Clinical record: Oracle Health (One Person One Record), fully electronic record since Dec 2025 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to IWK Health Centre (Halifax) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type: Tertiary

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 – Nova Scotia.

About Cape Breton

People
93,694residents, 2021 Census
Municipality of Cape Breton
Housing
2.7%rental vacancy rate
October 2025 survey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (census agglomeration)
Winter and summer
−5.0 °CJanuary mean18.2 °CJuly mean
1991–2020 normals, Sydney, 5.7 km away
Job outlook
not published for this specialty

More about Cape Breton (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. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match): 25 Jan 2027
Format: Virtual
Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

Thu 5 Nov 2026
7:00–9:00 pm AST
Info session · Virtual · Listed under interviews on CaRMS
Link for Dalhousie University, Thu 5 Nov 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Wed 2 Dec 2026
7:00–9:00 pm AST
Info session · Virtual · Listed under interviews on CaRMS
Link for Dalhousie University, Wed 2 Dec 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Sat 9 Jan 2027
12:00–2:00 pm AST
Social · Listed under interviews on CaRMS
Link for Dalhousie University, Sat 9 Jan 2027 (opens in a new tab)

From the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), read 20 Oct 2026; a row tagged CANPREPP is on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026), alone or as well. Dates and times are as the program wrote them; “your time” is worked out in your browser when your time zone differs. Programs add and change sessions.

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 the 3 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$78,578 / year
PGY-2	$83,904 / year
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

After residency

Family doctors in Nova Scotia can bill fee-for-service or join a model that pays for hours worked, enrolled patients and visits: the Longitudinal Family Medicine (LFM) payment model. New-to-practice physicians have a protected panel for their first year, based on the FTE in their offer letter. To join: 46 weeks a year in office-based clinical practice. Compare provinces

Official pages read 31 Oct 2026.

Past matches

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

What this means

A position can go unfilled because of where the site is, because it is open to IMGs only or to another restricted stream, or because the quota changed late.
It says nothing about the quality of the training or how heavy the workload is.
A site’s numbers are shown when it had positions open after round 1 in at least 2 of 8 years or at least 3 in one year.

Source: CaRMS’s lists of positions open after round 1 and after round 2, as read in October 2026 (latest: 2026 round 1 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab), 2026 round 2 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews	What changed
CMG stream	3	3 years	1 date, 25 Jan 2027Virtual	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG stream	3	3 years	6 dates, 13 Nov 2025 – 6 Feb 2026

The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description

The Dalhousie Family Medicine Integrated Emergency Medicine (iFMEM) program in Cape Breton offers a unique three-year training experience that combines family medicine and emergency medicine.
Located in Sydney, Cape Breton, this innovative program prepares residents to become comprehensive family physicians with advanced emergency medicine skills in a community-based, supportive learning environment.

Research: Residents are required to complete a scholarly project during their residency, with protected time and support for critically reviewing literature and potentially designing research studies.
Training setting: A distributed medical education program based in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, with training across multiple urban and rural clinical sites, including Cape Breton Regional Hospital and surrounding community healthcare facilities.
Teaching approach: A competency-based, learner-centered approach emphasizing progressive independence, hands-on practical experience, and comprehensive patient care across multiple healthcare settings.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
Reference letters
Personal letter
CV
FMProC assessment
Interview performance

Positions, length and interviews as each match’s CaRMS pages stated them; what changed from our comparison of the two matches and our readings of the 2027 pages.

Contacts and links

Program director: Dr. Sasha Sealy
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Program office: Accreditation and CaRMS Administrator
Write to the officefmresidency@dal.ca

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing. Site staff and other contacts are listed there too.

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Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Cape Breton

Sussex - Saint John - Family Medicine integrated Emergency MedicineDalhousie University
Sussex - Saint John, NB · 414 km
2 positions · CMG
Rural
Saint John - Community - Family Medicine integrated Emergency MedicineDalhousie University
Saint John - Community, NB · 466 km
2 positions · CMG
Sault Ste. Marie - Family Medicine integrated Emergency MedicineNOSM University
Sault Ste. Marie, ON · 1,848 km
2 positions · CMG
Regional

All 6 Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine programs across Canada2027 match

Enhanced skills at Dalhousie University, through CaRMSCaRMS’s FM/ES match, for family medicine residents

In these collections:

· All collections

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 11 Sep 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 36375 · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

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 24 Oct 2026.

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