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Halifax - Internal Medicine

Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova ScotiaCMG stream

At a glance

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

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Interviews

4 dates, 19–28 Jan 2027virtual

Halifax, 2 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

Program website(opens in a new tab)CANPREPP profile(opens in a new tab)CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Required longitudinal two-month Research Methods course for all PGY1s, taking projects from idea to proposal.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Required community general medicine rotation chosen from many sites across New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Dalhousie's 3-year core Internal Medicine program is based mainly at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, a tertiary referral centre.
  • Residents complete rotations at Saint John Regional Hospital in PGY1 and PGY3, and community rotations elsewhere in the Maritimes.
  • All PGY1s take a two-month Research Methods course, and interviews are virtual.

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.
    Show the quote

    as part of your training you will complete rotations outside of Halifax and Saint John, but within the maritime provinces.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Optional rural rotation
Focus areas
  • POCUS curriculum
Research
Required · research project · protected time

By year

PGY-1
  • rotationsQEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax11 of the 13 rotations
  • rotationSaint John Regional Hospital in New Brunswick1 rotation
  • community-based general medicine rotationMoncton, NB; Fredericton, NB; Miramichi NB; Waterville, NB; Charlottetown PEI; Dartmouth, NS; Kentville, NS; Yarmouth, NS; Bridgewater NS; Sydney, NS; Truro, NS; New Glascow, NS; Antigonish, NS; or Amherst NS
PGY-2
  • electivesTwo electives
  • Medical Teaching Unit
  • Emergency Department
  • Critical Care
  • Coronary Care Unit
  • Community RotationMaritimes
  • subspecialty ambulatory care clinic (ACC) rotationHalifax
PGY-3
  • elective blocks2 elective blocks
  • Ambulatory Care Clinic (ACC) rotationSaint John Regional Hospital (SJRH), New Brunswick1
  • MTU
  • Critical Care
  • General Internal Medicine

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

Where you train

Halifax, Nova Scotia: 2 teaching sites; optional rural rotation.

  • QE II Health Sciences Centre (Nova Scotia Health Authority)
  • Saint John Regional Hospital (Horizon Health Network, New Brunswick) (Saint John · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1 of 2; no published record for 1.

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.

QE II Health Sciences Centre (Nova Scotia Health Authority)

Clinical record
One Person One Record, fully electronic record since May 2026 As of 31 Oct 2026

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

Saint John Regional Hospital (Horizon Health Network, New Brunswick)

Matched to Saint John Regional Hospital / Hôpital Régional de Saint John (Saint John) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds
445 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

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

    Very goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

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. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
19, 21, 26 and 28 Jan 2027
Format
Virtual
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

None listed on the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) (read 20 Oct 2026) or on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026). Programs add sessions through the fall.

16 Internal Medicine info sessions at other programsAll info 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
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$78,578 / year
PGY-2
$83,904 / year
PGY-3
$89,462 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (as the program states it)
In-house call · frequency “one in four”
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

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)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviewsWhat changed
CMG stream153 years4 dates, 19–28 Jan 2027VirtualNothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream155 years6 dates, 9–29 Jan 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The Dalhousie University Internal Medicine Residency Program provides comprehensive training in internal medicine across the Maritime provinces.
  • Located at the QEII Health Sciences Centre, the program offers residents in-depth experience in all disciplines of internal medicine with exposure to inpatients and outpatients.
  • The program is built on the principle of graded responsibility and aims to develop outstanding internal medicine physicians who can practice in both community and academic settings.
Research
Residents participate in a two-month Research Methods course, can complete research electives, and are supported in submitting abstracts to conferences and peer-reviewed publications.
Training setting
Training occurs at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Saint John Regional Hospital in New Brunswick, serving as tertiary and quaternary referral centers for the Maritime Provinces.
Teaching approach
The program follows the Royal College CanMEDS 2015 competencies, using a competency-based medical education approach with graded responsibility and progressive independence for residents.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • Medical Student Performance Record
  • Reference Letters
  • Personal Letter
  • CV
  • Electives Performance
  • 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
Program office

Education Coordinator, Education Office Coordinator, Education Manager

Write to the officedomeducation@nshealth.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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Discussed on Reddit

Public Reddit posts and comments where someone describes this program. Each one links to Reddit.

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Internal Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Halifax

In these 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 35945 · 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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