Halifax - Radiation Oncology

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

Interviews

1 date, 18 Jan 2027MMI or rotating station

Halifax, 4 teaching sites

Program website CANPREPP profile CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Senior residents run a longitudinal clinic, following patients before, during and after treatment.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Ethos units with HyperSight imaging used for adaptive radiotherapy.
From “Training sites” on the CaRMS page
A dedicated OMSC rotation eases residents' return to radiation oncology after off-service rotations.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

Dalhousie's Radiation Oncology residency is a 5-year program based at the Nova Scotia Cancer Centre in Halifax.
Residents also complete rotations in Saint John, New Brunswick, which fulfil the community rotation requirement.
At least one research project is mandatory, with protected research time, and call is taken from home.

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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The Residency Program runs across two provinces:

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting: Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community
Rural exposure: Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas: Small program
Research: Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
Getting around: Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Radiation Oncology service (Transition to Discipline · Two four-week block rotations · Halifax)
Thoracic Surgery (Foundation of Discipline)
Gynecologic Oncology (Foundation of Discipline)
Palliative Medicine (Foundation of Discipline)
Neurology (Foundation of Discipline)
Infectious Diseases (Foundation of Discipline)
Emergency (Foundation of Discipline)
Hematology (Foundation of Discipline)
Medical Oncology (Foundation of Discipline)
combined surgical rotation in Otolaryngology, Urology, Neurosurgery and Pathology (Foundation of Discipline · 8 weeks)
Diagnostic Imaging (Foundation of Discipline · 2 weeks)
Geriatrics (Foundation of Discipline · 2 weeks)
On treatment Management, Simulation and Contouring (OMSC) (Foundation of Discipline)
Resident longitudinal clinic (RLC) (Core of Discipline)
rotations in Saint John (Core of Discipline · Saint John, New Brunswick)
treatment planning (Core of Discipline · One block)
elective (Core of Discipline · Four blocks)
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (Core of Discipline · One block)
combined clinical and research rotation (two-block)

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

Where you train

Halifax, Nova Scotia: 4 teaching sites.

Nova Scotia Cancer Centre (NSCC)
Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Health Sciences Centre
Izaak Walton Killam-Grace (IWK) Health Centre
Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) (Saint John · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 2 of 4; no published record for 2.

Hospital facts

3 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.

Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Health Sciences Centre

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

Izaak Walton Killam-Grace (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

Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH)

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
Other file component(s)
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 Jan 2027
Format: MMI or rotating station

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.

7 Radiation Oncology info sessions at other programs All 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 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 (as the program states it): Home 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	1 date, 18 Jan 2027MMI or rotating station	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG stream	1	5 years	1 date, 2 Feb 2026

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

Dalhousie University's Radiation Oncology residency program offers comprehensive training in a supportive, technology-rich environment.
The program provides individualized education across five years, emphasizing clinical excellence, scholarly activity, and professional development in Radiation Oncology.

Research: Residents must complete at least one scholarly project, with protected time provided. Opportunities exist in clinical research, medical physics, medical education, and quality improvement.
Training setting: Training occurs across two provinces (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), with primary sites in Halifax at the Nova Scotia Cancer Centre and in Saint John at the Regional Hospital, providing both urban academic and community cancer care experiences.
Teaching approach: Individualized, competency-based training that emphasizes progressive independence, multidisciplinary learning, and holistic development across CanMEDS roles with a focus on clinical excellence and scholarly activity.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Academic record
Clinical performance
Scholarly activities
Leadership ability
Interview performance
Reference letters
Personal letter

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. Lara Best
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Program office: Academic Manager
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 Channel on YouTube This program on CaRMS

Radiation Oncology elsewhere

Nearest to Halifax

Montreal - Radiation OncologyMcGill University
Montreal, QC · 790 km
2 positions · Regular
Bilingual
Ottawa - Radiation OncologyUniversity of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON · 955 km
2 positions · CMG, IMG
Kingston - Radiation OncologyQueen’s University
Kingston, ON · 1,025 km
3 positions · CMG

All 16 Radiation Oncology programs across Canada2027 match

In these collections:

Programs that provide or pay for housing on distant rotations

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 35588 · 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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