Kingston - Pediatrics
Queen’s UniversityKingston, OntarioCMG stream
- Not yet posted on CaRMS
- 4 years
- CMG
- Pediatrics
- 51–200
- 26–50%
- Accredited
- 36452
Summary
- Queen's Pediatrics is a 4-year residency based at Kingston Health Sciences Centre, with about 20-24 residents.
- Required rotations also take place at CHEO in Ottawa and community sites in Oshawa and Belleville.
- There are no subspecialty residents or fellows apart from NICU clinical fellows, and each resident completes a scholarly project.
Training
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Urban community
- Regional community
- Rural / remote
- Sites
5 teaching sites
- Kingston Health Sciences Centre including Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH) Site
- Lakeridge Health
- Quinte Healthcare
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- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
- Moose Factory
Distributed across a region
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation
- Focus areas
- Small program
- Early independence
- Research
- Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project · protected time
- Call
- In-house call · night float
- Getting around
- Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
- Highlights
- No subspecialty residents or fellows (except NICU clinical fellows), so residents work directly with faculty.
- Training at a non-stand-alone children's hospital, emphasizing neonatal resuscitation and general pediatrics preparation.
- Senior residents run a longitudinal teaching consulting clinic and act as junior attendings.
By year
- PGY-1
- Outpatient Pediatrics16 weeks
- Inpatient Pediatrics8 weeks
- NICU6 weeks (level 3 NICU)
- NICU4 weeks (level 2 NICU - Lakeridge Health in Oshawa)
- Hematology/Oncology4 weeks (2nd half of academic year)
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine4 weeks
- Pediatric Anesthesia2 weeks
- Research / Quality Improvement and Patient Safety2 weeks
- PGY-4
- Ambulatory Pediatrics32 weeks
- Electives8 weeks
- Junior Attending (inpatients)4 weeks
- Community Pediatrics4 weeks
- Night float2 x 2 weeks
Other rotations
- NICU (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 8 weeks)
- Inpatient Pediatrics (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 12 weeks)
- PICU (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 8 weeks · CHEO-Ottawa)
- Infectious Disease (with Allergy) (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 8 weeks)
- Cardiology / Respirology (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 8 weeks)
- Pediatric Surgery (General, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology) (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 4 weeks)
- Neurology (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 4 weeks)
- Genetics (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 4 weeks)
- Developmental Pediatrics (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 4 weeks)
- General Pediatrics (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 4 weeks)
- Child Psychiatry (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 4 weeks)
- Endocrinology / Gastroenterology (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 8 weeks)
- Hematology/Oncology (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 4 weeks (first half of 3rd academic year))
- Community Pediatrics (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 4 weeks)
- Electives (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 8 weeks in PGY2 and 4 weeks in PGY3)
- Research (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 2 weeks in PGY2 and 2 weeks in PGY3)
- Night Float (Core of Discipline (PGY-2 and PGY-3) · 2 x 2 weeks in PGY3)
Selection
- 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.
- Applications per year
- 51–200
- Applicants offered interviews
- 26–50%
Interviews
- Dates (2027 match)
- 18, 22, 25 and 29 Jan 2027; 1 Feb 2027
- Mode
- Virtual
- Format
- MMI or rotating station
Pay
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-1 | $73,367 / year |
| PGY-2 | $79,670 / year |
| PGY-3 | $85,564 / year |
| PGY-4 | $92,701 / year |
Call
- Call (provincial max)
- 7 nights in 28 in-house
Teaching sites
- Kingston Health Sciences Centre including Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH) Site (Kingston)
- Lakeridge Health (Oshawa)
- Quinte Healthcare (Belleville)
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) (Ottawa)
- Moose Factory (Moose Factory · rural or distributed site)
Hospital facts
Hospital size and activity: Ontario doesn't publish this as open data.
Contacts
Grouped by the titles CaRMS lists. The program office (administrators and coordinators) usually answers questions about the program and applying; the director leads the training.
Program officeadministrators and coordinators
Program directors
Dr. Emily Lehan
Program Director
Dr. Laura Wheaton
Assistant Program Director
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.
Location
Kingston, Ontario
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About the city
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Climate
- January average
- −7.0 °C
- July average
- 20.8 °C
- Snowfall
- 158.0 cm a year
- Days below −20 °C
- 13.2 days a year
People
- Population
- 132,485 people
- Official languages
- English only 85.8% · French only 0.2% · English and French 13.4% · neither 0.6%
- Immigrants
- 13.6% of residents
- Indigenous identity
- 4.2% of residents
- How people commute
- car, truck or van 81.5% · public transit 6.2% · walking or cycling 10.0% · other 2.3%
- Median household income
- $79,000 before tax
Rural and remote
- Population centre
- Kingston, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people)
- Remoteness index
- 0.216
Housing, cost and work
- Rental vacancy rate
- 2.4%
- Basic cost of living
- $54,744 a year
- Unemployment rate
- 5.6%
Job outlook
- Outlook, 2025–2027
- Good
- Canada-wide, to 2033
- Strong risk of Shortage