Halifax-South Shore - Family Medicine

Dalhousie UniversityHalifax-South Shore, Nova Scotia

Approx. quota: CMG stream3 positions+1 from 2 in the 2026 match
IMG stream1 position
Length: 2 years
Applications per year: CMG stream401–600
IMG stream601+
Offered interviews: CMG stream76–100%
IMG stream0–25%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

IMG stream · open to international medical graduates

Return of service: Required

IMG requirement: “Only IMGs who participate in the first iteration MMI will be considered for subsequent…” details under How they choose

Info session

all 3

Thu 5 Nov 2026,7:00–9:00 pm AST

Interviews

5 dates, 25–29 Jan 2027virtual

1 date, 22 Jan 2027virtual

Halifax-South Shore, 8 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

PGY1 residents care for a long-term care patient panel throughout core family medicine, with a long-term care curriculum.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
PGY2 horizontal elective options include Gender Affirming Care, one day weekly for 9 weeks.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

Dalhousie's Halifax-South Shore site is a 2-year family medicine residency that combines training in Halifax with up to about half of each year in the South Shore area.
Core family medicine is completed in the South Shore area, including Lunenburg, Bridgewater and Liverpool, while pediatrics is at the IWK Health Centre.
Residents start with a four-week Foundations in Family Medicine orientation block in Halifax and must complete a scholarly project with protected time.

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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Applicants to the Halifax-South Shore program must be aware of and accept that they will spend up to approximately half of their training each year in the South Shore area.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting: Mixed settings
Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community
Rural / remote
Rural exposure: Required rural rotation
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 Medicine with integrated Emergency Medicine BlockSouth Shore area16 weeks
General MedicineQueen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax Infirmary, or Dartmouth General Hospital8 weeks
PediatricsIWK Health Centre8 weeks
Obstetrics and GynecologyIWK Health Centre or South Shore Regional Hospital8 weeks
Foundations in Family MedicineHalifax Sites’ academic centre and teaching clinics4 weeks
General SurgerySouth Shore Regional Hospital, Bridgewater, or Dartmouth General Hospital4 weeks
SelectivesHalifax and South Shore area, including Liverpool, Bridgewater, and Lunenburg4 weeks
Vacation4 weeks
Clinical Half Days in Family MedicineHalifaxvariable
PGY-2: Core Family Medicine blockSouth Shore area18 weeks
Community Family MedicineCompleted anywhere in Nova Scotia or on the South Shore12 weeks
Electives10 weeks
PGY2 SelectivesHalifax area4 weeks
Geriatric MedicineSouth Shore area4 weeks
Palliative Care MedicineHalifax4 weeks
PsychiatrySouth Shore area or Halifax2–4 weeks
Vacation4 weeks

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

Where you train

Halifax-South Shore, Nova Scotia: 8 teaching sites; required rural rotation. A car is required.

Halifax Sites' academic centre and teaching clinics (Halifax)
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (Halifax)
Halifax Infirmary (Halifax)
Dartmouth General Hospital (Dartmouth)
IWK Health Centre (Halifax)
South Shore Regional Hospital (Bridgewater · rural or distributed site)
Fishermen's Memorial Hospital (Lunenburg · rural or distributed site)
Queens General Hospital (Liverpool · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites, all streams: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 5 of 9; no published record for 4.

Moving to a new system: South Shore Regional Hospital (by Dec 2026).

Hospital facts

7 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 Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax Infirmary, Dartmouth General Hospital.

How to read the figures

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

Queen Elizabeth II 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

Halifax Infirmary

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

Hospital type: Tertiary

Dartmouth General Hospital

Matched to Dartmouth General Hospital (Dartmouth) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type: Regional

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IWK Health Centre

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

South Shore Regional Hospital

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

Matched to South Shore Regional Hospital (Bridgewater) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type: Regional

Fishermen's Memorial Hospital

Matched to Fishermen's Memorial Hospital (Lunenburg) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type: Community

Queens General Hospital

Matched to Queens General Hospital (Liverpool) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type: Community

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.

Sites as the program’s CaRMS page lists them.

How they choose

Application file components: CV
Electives
Examinations
Extra-curricular
Leadership skills
MSPRs
Personal letters
Reference documents
Research/Publications
Transcripts
Return of service, CMG stream: Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service, IMG stream: Required
IMG requirements, IMG stream: “Only IMGs who participate in the first iteration MMI will be considered for subsequent iterations of the CaRMS match.”

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match), CMG stream: 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 Jan 2027
Interview dates (2027 match), IMG stream: 22 Jan 2027
Format, CMG stream: Virtual
Traditional (one on one/two on one)
Format, IMG stream: Virtual
MMI or rotating station

Info sessions

Thu 5 Nov 2026
7:00–9:00 pm AST
Info session · Virtual · Listed under interviews on CaRMSCANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)
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 CaRMSCANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)
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 CaRMSCANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)
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 2 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

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.

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	2 years	5 dates, 25–29 Jan 2027Virtual	Positions 2 → 3 from the 2026 match
IMG stream	1	2 years	1 date, 22 Jan 2027Virtual	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG stream	2	2 years	10 dates, 13 Nov 2025 – 6 Feb 2026
IMG stream	1	2 years	5 dates, 13 Nov 2025 – 6 Feb 2026

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

The Dalhousie Family Medicine program trains residents to become comprehensive family physicians who can address the health needs of Maritime communities.
Residents will experience a diverse training environment spanning urban Halifax and rural South Shore areas, with opportunities to develop skills in various clinical settings.

Research: Residents are required to complete a scholarly project with protected time, focusing on critically reviewing literature and potentially designing research studies.
Training setting: A distributed training program across urban Halifax and rural South Shore communities in Nova Scotia, offering diverse clinical experiences in academic medical centers, community clinics, and rural healthcare settings.
Teaching approach: Competency-based medical education emphasizing self-directed learning, teamwork, and progressive independence, with a focus on comprehensive patient care across various clinical contexts.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: CV content
Electives
Examinations
Extra-curricular activities
Leadership skills
Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
Personal letter
Reference letters
Research/Publications
Academic transcripts

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.

Program websiteWebsite Dalhousie Family Medicine Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Program Maritime Resident Doctors Halifax Site (video)Residency at Dalhousie Family Medicine (Video)This program on CaRMS

Family Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Halifax-South Shore

Annapolis Valley - Family MedicineDalhousie University
Annapolis Valley · 77 km
6 positions · CMG, IMG, Nova Scotian IMG
Rural
Halifax - Family MedicineDalhousie University
Halifax · 80 km
27 positions · CMG, IMG, Nova Scotian IMG
South West Nova - Bilingual - Family MedicineDalhousie University
South West Nova - Bilingual · 129 km
1 position · CMG
Bilingual

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

In these collections:

Source

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

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 35746 (CMG stream), 36341 (IMG stream) · 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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