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Montreal - Family Medicine - Sport and Exercise Medicine

McGill UniversityMontreal, Quebec

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
Not stated on CaRMS page
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
76–100%

Regular stream

Non-MOH stream

Interviews

Not stated on CaRMS page

Montreal, 4 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Residents are assigned to McGill Varsity teams as first-call for injuries and sideline game coverage.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Longitudinal non-operative orthopedics clinics include exposure to CNESST and SAAQ (workplace and auto-insurance) cases.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • McGill's one-year Sport and Exercise Medicine program, established in 1993, is clinically oriented toward sports-related injuries in primary care.
  • Training is longitudinal at the McGill Sport Medicine Clinic, with Varsity team coverage and non-operative orthopedic clinics at the Montreal General Hospital.
  • Residents complete 4-week MSK-ER rotations at the McGill University Health Centre and Lakeshore General Hospital and a required scholarly project.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • family_practice_continuity
  • Longitudinal / integrated
Research
Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project
Training language
English and French

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Longitudinal schedule · McGill Sport Medicine Clinic)
  • McGill Varsity team involvement with on-field game coverage (Longitudinal schedule)
  • Non-Operative Orthopedics (Longitudinal schedule · Montreal General Hospital)
  • Longitudinal Family Medicine Clinic (Longitudinal schedule · 0.5 day every 2 weeks)
  • MSK-ER (Rotations · 4 weeks · McGill University Health Centre)
  • MSK-ER (Rotations · 4 weeks · Lakeshore General Hospital)
  • Physiatry (Rotations · 2-4 weeks)
  • Adult Rheumatology (Rotations · 2 weeks)
  • Option for elective rotation based on the resident's interests (e.g. Pediatric Emergency) (Rotations)

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Longitudinal schedule · McGill Sport Medicine Clinic)
  • McGill Varsity team involvement with on-field game coverage (Longitudinal schedule)
  • Non-Operative Orthopedics (Longitudinal schedule · Montreal General Hospital)
  • Longitudinal Family Medicine Clinic (Longitudinal schedule · 0.5 day every 2 weeks)
  • MSK-ER (Rotations · 4 weeks · McGill University Health Centre)
  • MSK-ER (Rotations · 4 weeks · Lakeshore General Hospital)
  • Physiatry (Rotations · 2-4 weeks)
  • Adult Rheumatology (Rotations · 2 weeks)
  • elective rotation (Rotations)

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

Where you train

Montreal, Quebec: 4 teaching sites.

  • The McGill Sport Medicine Clinic
  • The McGill University Health Centre
  • Montreal General Hospital
  • Lakeshore General Hospital

Record systems at the listed sites: TELUS at 1 of 4; no published record for 3.

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

  • Emergency visits. Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
  • Licensed beds. Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

The McGill University Health Centre

This name covers 5 hospitals in the province’s lists. Each is shown on its own, A to Z, and the numbers are never added together.

Hôpital de Lachine (Montréal)
Emergency visits
2025–2026: 8,296 · 2026–2027: 8,612
Licensed beds
physical health 56
Hôpital Général de Montréal (Montréal)
Emergency visits
2025–2026: 14,039 · 2026–2027: 14,682
Licensed beds
physical health 236 · psychiatry 46
Hôpital Neurologique de Montréal (Montréal)
Licensed beds
physical health 90
Hôpital Royal Victoria (Montréal)
Emergency visits
2025–2026: 19,799 · 2026–2027: 20,604
L'Hôpital de Montréal pour Enfants (Montréal)
Emergency visits
2025–2026: 25,738 · 2026–2027: 26,552

Montreal General Hospital

Clinical record
TELUS (Oacis), since 2006, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Hôpital Général de Montréal (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 14,039 · 2026–2027: 14,682
Licensed beds
physical health 236 · psychiatry 46

Lakeshore General Hospital

Matched to Hôpital Général du Lakeshore (Pointe-Claire) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 14,918 · 2026–2027: 15,905
Licensed beds
physical health 234 · psychiatry 31

Verify with the official source: each source button opens the publisher’s own page.

Sources and licences

  • Contient de l'information fournie par le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec et visée par CC BY 4.0. Données modifiées. (Contains information provided by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec under CC BY 4.0. Data modified.)

About Montréal

  • People

    1,762,949residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Montréal

  • Housing

    2.9%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Montréal, Quebec (census metropolitan area)

  • Winter and summer

    −9.2 °CJanuary mean21.7 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Montreal Trudeau (Airport), 11.2 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Montréal (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

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
Not stated on CaRMS page
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

Pay and call

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). One provincial scale for Quebec, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$70,890 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (provincial max)
6 calls in an establishment per 28 days
Post-call rule (provincial)
8 hours of mandatory rest after a work period
Max continuous duty (provincial)
16 hours in an establishment in any 24-hour period

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Benefits

28 lines as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024: Adoption leave, Annual vacation, Assistant Resident Coordinator, and more
Adoption leave
29 to 38 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Annual vacation
20 days/year
Assistant Resident Coordinator
$425/month
Call Premium
$607/28 days
Conference leave
7 days pd/year
Dental Plan
Yes, available for a fee
Exam leave
Day (s) of the exam
Extended Health Insurance
Yes
Leave for death in family
From 1 to 5 days depending on the family member
Leave of absence without pay (exceptional measure)
12 months maximum
Life insurance
Yes
Long-Term disability insurance
Yes
Maternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP*) and FMRQ **
21 weeks95 % of salary
Meals
Reduced feeFree during on-call duty
Pager
Provided by the establishment
Parental leave (time sharing between parents)
19 to 29 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Parking
½ of doctors’ feeFree during on-call duty
Paternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP) and FMRQ
1 week, 100% of salary3 to 5 weeks, 100% of salary(two options)
Professional Liability Insurance****(CPMA not applicable)
Yes (free)
Quebec Health Insurance Program / RAMQ***
Yes
Resident Coordinator
$583/month
Resuscitation courses and examination leave
Day of the course and of the exam, course paid
Sick leave
9.6 days pd / yearAnd reimbursement of days not taken
Statutory and floating holidays
13/year
Study leave
10 days pd/year
Superior Financial Programs
Yes
Teaching Premium
$240/28 days
Wedding leave
7 days paid + 7 days without pay

Contacts and links

Program director
Program office

Postgraduate and Enhanced Skills Coordinator

Write to the officepostgrad.fammed@mcgill.ca

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

McGill University Sport and Exercise Medicine Enhanced Skills Program(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Sport and Exercise Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Montreal

Source

The Regular stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 28 Jul 2026 · The Non-MOH stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 28 Jul 2026 · FM/ES 2027 match.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 34670 (Regular stream), 34564 (Non-MOH stream) · How these pages are made ›

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 8 Oct 2026.

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