Halifax - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova ScotiaCMG stream

Approx. quota: 1 position
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: 0–50
Offered interviews: 76–100%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Info session

details

Mon 9 Nov 2026,8:00–9:00 pm ASTvia CANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)

Interviews

2 dates, 18–19 Jan 2027virtual

Halifax, 7 teaching sites

Program website CANPREPP profile CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Required research project must reach presentation at a national or international meeting.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Base rehabilitation centre has an on-site orthotics and prosthetics department that makes devices in-house.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Sport medicine training includes field-side clinical opportunities with varsity teams.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

Dalhousie's five-year PM&R program is based at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation and Arthritis Centre site of the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.
Pediatric rehabilitation is trained at the IWK in Halifax and the Stan Cassidy Rehabilitation Centre in Fredericton, and residents spend about 10 percent of training outside Halifax.
Residents must complete a research project to the point of presentation at a national or international meeting.

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

What training looks like

Setting: Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community
Rural exposure: Not stated on CaRMS page
Research: Required · research or quality-improvement project

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Transition to Discipline · 3-block)
Medical Teaching Unit (Foundations of Discipline · 3)
Geriatrics (Foundations of Discipline · 2)
Infectious Diseases (Foundations of Discipline · 1)
Neurosurgery (Foundations of Discipline · 1)
Psychiatry (Foundations of Discipline · 1)
Rheumatology (Foundations of Discipline · 2)
Orthopedic Surgery (Foundations of Discipline · 2)
Neurology (Foundations of Discipline · 2)
stroke and acquired brain injury rehabilitation (Core of Discipline)
spinal cord medicine (Core of Discipline)
neuromuscular rehabilitation and EMG (Core of Discipline)
musculoskeletal medicine (Core of Discipline)
rehabilitation of persons with amputations (Core of Discipline)
pediatric rehabilitation (Core of Discipline)

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

Where you train

Halifax, Nova Scotia: 7 teaching sites.

Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre Site, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Victoria General Hospital Site, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Halifax Infirmary, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
IWK Health Centre
Stan Cassidy Rehabilitation Centre (Fredericton · rural or distributed site)
Harbourview Rehabilitation Centre (Sydney · rural or distributed site)
Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Charlottetown · rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: Clinical Information System at 1 of 7, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 3; no published record for 3.

Hospital facts

5 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 Victoria General Hospital Site, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax Infirmary, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre.

How to read the figures

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

Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre Site, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

Matched to Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre (Halifax) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type: Rehabilitation

Victoria General Hospital Site, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

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

Hospital type: Tertiary

Halifax Infirmary, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

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

Hospital type: Tertiary

Show facts for 2 more sites

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

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Clinical record: Clinical Information System (CIS), since 2008, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 17 Oct 2026

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 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): 18 and 19 Jan 2027
Format: Virtual
MMI or rotating station

Info sessions

Mon 9 Nov 2026
8:00–9:00 pm AST
Info session · VirtualCANPREPP source (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 5 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
PGY-4	$95,485 / year
PGY-5	$101,926 / 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

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	1	5 years	2 dates, 18–19 Jan 2027Virtual	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG streamHalifax - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	1	5 years	2 dates, 19–20 Jan 2026

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

Dalhousie University's Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) residency is a comprehensive 5-year program located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The program offers extensive training across diverse rehabilitation settings, with opportunities for interprovincial and international experiences, and a strong focus on academic excellence and patient care.

Research: Residents are required to complete a research project, with opportunities for national and international conference presentations and potential research awards.
Training setting: Training occurs across multiple sites in the Maritime provinces, including Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, IWK Health Centre, and Stan Cassidy Rehabilitation Centre in New Brunswick.
Teaching approach: Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, emphasizing individualized learning, research opportunities, and comprehensive rehabilitation training across diverse patient populations.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Academic record
Electives
Extra-curricular activities
Leadership skills
Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
Personal letter
Reference documents
Research/Publications
Transcripts
Multiple Mini Interview (MMI)

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. Kate Montgomery
kate.montgomery@nshealth.ca
(902) 473-3232
Faculty profile of Dr. Kate Montgomery(opens in a new tab)
Source: medicine.dal.ca · checked Oct 2026
Program office: Residency Education Coordinator
Email on the CaRMS page(opens in a new tab)

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

Program websiteWebsite CANPREPPCANPREPP This program on CaRMS

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation elsewhere

Nearest to Halifax

Ottawa - Physical Medicine and RehabilitationUniversity of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON · 955 km
2 positions · CMG
Kingston - Physical Medicine and RehabilitationQueen’s University
Kingston, ON · 1,025 km
1 position · CMG
Toronto - Physical Medicine and RehabilitationUniversity of Toronto
Toronto, ON · 1,264 km
4 positions · CMG

All 16 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation programs across Canada2027 match

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 35751 · 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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