Kelowna Regional - Family Medicine

University of British ColumbiaKelowna Regional, British ColumbiaIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 11 Sep 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 1 position
Length: 2 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 201–400
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 29688

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

Summary

The Kelowna Regional Site offers a comprehensive two-year family medicine residency program with unique training experiences across urban and rural settings in British Columbia. Residents receive broad-based training in Kelowna, with opportunities for rural rotations, electives, and a transition to practice, preparing them for full-service family medicine in diverse community settings.

Training

Research

Academic half-days include opportunities for resident-led academic and research activities.

Training setting

Training occurs in Kelowna, a mid-sized city in the Okanagan Valley, with rotations at Kelowna General Hospital, community-based clinics, and various rural communities throughout British Columbia and NWT.

Teaching approach

Experiential learning in an academically monitored environment, fostering self-confidence, skills development, and balanced professional growth through progressive clinical independence.

Setting types

Tertiary care center
Community clinics
Rural healthcare settings

Focus areas

Full-service Family Medicine
Rural Medicine
Community-based Family Practice
Urban and Rural Healthcare

Patient populations

Urban community patients
Rural community patients
Diverse patient populations across British Columbia

Highlights

Mandatory 2-month rural rotation
16-week rural community placement
16-week elective opportunities
4-week Transition to Practice block
Academic half-day teaching sessions
Resident-led wellness initiatives

Strengths

Distributed training across 23 sites
Comprehensive full-service family medicine training
Strong focus on rural and community-based medicine
Emphasis on resident wellness and resilience

Enhanced skills

Rural Medicine
Community Medicine
Acute Care

By year

PGY-1

Family PracticeOkanagan Valley community clinics12 weeks(+ 0.5 day per week throughout year)
PediatricsKelowna General Hospital8 weeks
Obstetrics/GynecologyKelowna General Hospital6 weeks
EmergencyKelowna General Hospital4 weeks
General Internal Medicine (Clinic Teaching Unit) / HospitalistKelowna General Hospital4 weeks
General Internal Medicine (Clinic Teaching Unit) / CTUKelowna General Hospital4 weeks
PsychiatryKelowna General Hospital4 weeks
Orthopedics / MSKKelowna General Hospital3 weeks
General SurgeryKelowna General Hospital3 weeks
Addictions-InpatientKelowna General Hospital2 weeks
Substance UseKelowna General Hospital1 week
AnesthesiaKelowna General Hospital1 week
Addictions-OutpatientKelowna General Hospital1 week

PGY-2

Regional rotationCommunity-based clinics in the Central Okanagan region and at Kelowna General Hospital16 weeks/4 blocks
Rural rotationRural community in British Columbia/NWT16 weeks/4 blocks
ElectivesLocation of Resident’s Choosing. Limit of one month out of province.16 weeks/4 blocks
Acute Care Elective(consists of ICU, Hospitalist, Emerg & CTU)Location of Resident’s Choosing. Limit of one month out of province.4 weeks (1outof 4electiveblocks)
Transition to PracticeCentral Okanagan family practice clinics4 weeks/1 block(June of PGY2)

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

File review (50%)
MMI interview (45%)
FMProC score (5%)

Applications per year

201–400

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 17, 17–27, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 28 Jan 2026; 8 Feb 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 2 Sep 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Salaries from April 2027.

Annual salary by PGY level, British Columbia
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$71,390 / year
PGY-2	$79,571 / year

One provincial scale for British Columbia, 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
CMPA dues paid: Yes. Mandatory
Dental plan: 100% Premiums Paid
Educational leave: Yes
Extended health insurance: 100% Premiums Paid
Frequency of calls: 1 in 4 onsite/1 in 3 offsite
Life insurance: 100% Premium Paid
Long-term disability insurance: Yes 100% Premiums Paid
Maternity leave: 17 weeks, plus up to 78 weeks Parental Leave
Meal allowance: No
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1.5%
Provincial health insurance: 100% Premiums Paid
Sick leave: Yes
Statutory holidays: 2 x pay plus extra day with pay

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 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.

RDBC agreement, 1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2029.

Teaching sites

Kelowna General 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.

Kelowna General Hospital

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

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 15,707 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 4,090 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

Contacts

Contacts weren't collected for the 2026 match.

The current program director and contacts are on the 2027 version of this program and on the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab).

Location

Kelowna Regional, British Columbia

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: −2.6 °C Kelowna, 12.6 km away
July average: 20.0 °C Kelowna, 12.6 km away
Snowfall: 92.8 cm a year Vernon, 44.0 km away
Days below −20 °C: 2.4 days a year Kelowna, 12.6 km away

People

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

Population: 144,576 people up 13.5% from 2016
Official languages: English only 91.7% · French only 0.0% · English and French 7.5% · neither 0.8% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 15.3% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 2.5% · non-permanent residents: 2.8%
Indigenous identity: 5.6% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 84.3% · public transit 4.0% · walking or cycling 9.1% · other 2.6% Average commute: 18.1 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: $82,000 before tax $73,500 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: Kelowna, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 181,380 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.233 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: 6.3% October 2025 survey, Kelowna, British Columbia (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $59,363 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, British Columbia, population 100,000 to 499,999, 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: 9.3% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Kelowna, British Columbia (census metropolitan area); standard error 1.4 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: Good The employment outlook will be Good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the Thompson - Okanagan 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 34-10-0130-01. 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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