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Fredericton - Family Medicine

Dalhousie UniversityFredericton, New BrunswickCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 9 Oct 2025

From the 2026 match (R-1 2026). See the 2027 version

Positions (approx. quota)
5 positions
Length
2 years
Stream
CMG
Discipline
Family Medicine
Applications per year
401–600
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%
Accreditation
Accredited
CaRMS program ID
31029

Bands are 5-year averages the program reports to CaRMS. They describe past cycles, not your odds.

Summary

The Dalhousie Family Medicine Fredericton program offers a comprehensive two-year family medicine residency with hands-on, experiential learning in a community setting. Residents receive extensive clinical exposure across diverse medical settings, with a focus on developing comprehensive skills in family practice through a learner-centered approach.

Training

Research
Residents are required to complete a scholarly project with protected time for research activities, focusing on critically reviewing literature and potentially designing studies.
Training setting
The Fredericton program is located in a community setting at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, serving a population of approximately 122,500, with a strong emphasis on rural and distributed medical training.
Teaching approach
Learner-centered education with a focus on experiential learning, self-directed learning, and progressive responsibility, emphasizing patient-centered care and the four principles of family medicine.
Setting types
  • Community hospital
  • Academic medical center
  • Rural training site
Focus areas
  • Community Family Medicine
  • Rural Medicine
  • Comprehensive Patient Care
  • Interprofessional Care
Patient populations
  • Inpatient medical patients
  • Palliative care patients
  • Rehabilitation patients
  • Pediatric patients
  • Obstetric patients
  • Geriatric patients
  • Community-based patients
Highlights
  • Hands-on experiential learning
  • One resident to one faculty member ratio
  • Extensive simulation curriculum
  • Mandatory Family Medicine Resident Education Symposium (FMRES)
  • Scholarly project requirement
  • Protected time for scholarly activities
Strengths
  • Strong hands-on clinical training
  • Minimal competition for clinical opportunities
  • Excellent simulation facilities
  • High exam performance by residents
  • Comprehensive training across multiple medical settings
Enhanced skills
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Palliative Care
  • Care of the Elderly

By year

PGY-1
  • Core Family MedicineFredericton16 weeks
  • Internal MedicineFredericton8 weeks
  • Obstetrics and GynecologyFredericton8 weeks
  • PediatricsFredericton6 weeks
  • Emergency MedicineFredericton4 weeks
  • General SurgeryFredericton4 weeks
  • Orthopaedic SurgeryFredericton4 weeks
  • VacationScheduled at resident's request4 weeks
  • HospitalistFredericton2 weeks
PGY-2
  • Core Family MedicineFredericton16 weeks
  • Community Family MedicineFredericton12 weeks
  • ElectivesResidents in Fredericton have a total of 8 weeks of electives, scheduled at Residents' request, minimum of 4 weeks in the Maritimes8 weeks
  • Critical CareFredericton4 weeks
  • GeriatricsFredericton4 weeks
  • PsychiatryFredericton4 weeks
  • Palliative CareFredericton4 weeks
  • VacationScheduled at resident's request4 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at
  • Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
  • Personal letter
  • Reference letters
  • Interview performance
  • FMProC assessment
Applications per year
401–600
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match)
13, 24 and 27 Nov 2025; 10, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 Jan 2026; 6 Feb 2026

Programs can change interview dates. Confirm on carms.ca.

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 24 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

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

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.

Benefits

Benefits as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024; check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual vacation
4 weeks
Call stipend
Yes
CMPA dues paid
Yes
Dental coverage
Yes
Educational leave
Yes
Extended health insurance
Yes
Frequency of call
l in 4 in-hospital and for homecall
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

Call

Call (provincial max)
1 night in 4 in-house

The union agreement’s cap for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. Check with the program.

MarDocs agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

  • Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital

Hospital facts

Public figures for hospitals named above, each with its source and reference period. They describe the hospital, not the program, and are not a ranking. We match names to the province’s lists by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital

Matched to Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital / Hôpital régional Dr Everett Chalmers (Fredericton) in the province’s hospital list.

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

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – New Brunswick.

Contacts

Location

Fredericton, New Brunswick

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About the city

Public statistics for the place named by this program’s location label, each with its source and reference period. They describe the place, not the program, and are not a ranking. Check each source before you rely on it.

Climate

Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020. Each value comes from the nearest weather station that reports it, not from the city itself.

January average
−9.2 °C Fredericton (Airport), 10.6 km away
July average
19.7 °C Fredericton (Airport), 10.6 km away
Snowfall
241.3 cm a year Fredericton (Airport), 10.6 km away
Days below −20 °C
17.3 days a year Fredericton (Airport), 10.6 km away

People

2021 Census. Figures are for the municipality of Fredericton, not the metropolitan area. Statistics Canada rounds counts, so small places are approximate.

Population
63,116 people up 7.5% from 2016
Official languages
English only 74.8% · French only 0.3% · English and French 24.3% · neither 0.6% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants
12.6% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 5.6% · non-permanent residents: 2.8%
Indigenous identity
3.5% of residents
How people commute
car, truck or van 85.2% · public transit 3.7% · walking or cycling 9.1% · other 1.9% Average commute: 14.9 minutes. Shares are of people who commute.The way Canadians commute was altered in 2021 by the pandemic, with lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19 and changes in how and where Canadians worked leading to 2.8 million fewer commuters, compared with five years earlier. Statistics Canada, The Daily, 30 Nov 2022(opens in a new tab)
Median household income
$73,000 before tax $64,000 after tax · income year 2020, in 2020 dollars

Rural and remote

This describes the place named by the program’s location label. Programs can train in several towns, so it is not every site.

Population centre
Fredericton, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 64,614 people in 2021
Remoteness index
0.288 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.

Housing, cost and work

Each figure names the area it covers. A missing line means the source publishes nothing for this area.

Rental vacancy rate
not published October 2025 survey, Fredericton, New Brunswick (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living
$54,161 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Fredericton, New Brunswick, for two adults with two children. A modest, basic basket (the poverty line), not a resident’s budget. A size-class region is not the town itself.
Unemployment rate
6.0% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Fredericton, New Brunswick (census metropolitan area); standard error 1.0 points. A survey estimate.

Job outlook

Employment and Social Development Canada’s rating for the occupation in the economic region. It is not a count of jobs, and says nothing about CaRMS positions or your match.

Outlook, 2025–2027
Very good The employment outlook will be Very good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the Fredericton - Oromocto region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033
Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for general practitioners and family physicians, 2024–2033. Recent conditions, 2021–2023: Strong signs of Shortage.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
  • Adapted from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey, October 2025 (vacancy rates), and Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0131-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), 2024 to 2033 projections).
  • Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, 3-Year Employment Outlooks).
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Index of Remoteness (17-26-0001), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0459-01 Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted, reference month 2026-09. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0066-01 Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for the reference family by Market Basket Measure region, component and base year, 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0011-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0002-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0057-01 Household income statistics by household type: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0173-01 Mother tongue by knowledge of official languages: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0266-01 Indigenous identity by Registered or Treaty Indian status: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0307-01 Immigrant status and period of immigration by place of birth: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0458-01 Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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