Montreal - Pediatrics
McGill UniversityMontreal, QuebecRegular stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 6
- Length
- 4
- Applications per year
- 51–200
- Offered interviews
- 26–50%
Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
5 dates, 27 Jan – 2 Feb 2027
Montreal, 11 teaching sites · required rural rotation
What stands out about this program
Bilingual training: residents must care for patients in both French and English.
From “Additional information” on the CaRMS page
Annual one-month rotations in regional centres such as Gatineau and Val-d'Or, with housing provided.
From “Training sites” on the CaRMS page
Training meets American Board of Pediatrics certification requirements as well as Canadian ones.
From “Additional information” on the CaRMS page
- McGill's four-year pediatrics residency is based at a children's hospital with all pediatric medical and surgical subspecialties on site.
- Residents spend one month per year in regional centres such as Gatineau and Val-d'Or, with housing and transportation support.
- Fluency in English and French is required, and a research/scholarly project is mandatory.
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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What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Regional community
- Rural / remote
- Urban community
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation
- Focus areas
- Rural / remote
- Indigenous health
- Research
- Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
- Training language
- English and French
- Getting around
- Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
- Travel is reimbursed
By year
- PGY-2
- Neonatology- Clinical Teaching Unit senior rotation4 weeks
- Senior Ward Nightfloat4 weeks
- Emergency Medicine4 weeks
- Rural or Community Pediatrics4 weeks
- Neonatology level III4-weeks
- Neonatology Night Float1-week
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine4-weeks
Other rotations
- Inpatient Wards (Transition to Discipline-TTD · 4-weeks)
- Emergency Medicine (Transition to Discipline-TTD · 4 weeks)
- Medical Day Hospital (Transition to Discipline-TTD · 4 weeks)
- Newborn Medicine (Transition to Discipline-TTD · 2 weeks)
- Junior Ward Night Float (Transition to Discipline-TTD · 2 weeks)
- Rural or Ambulatory Pediatrics (Transition to Discipline-TTD · 4 weeks)
- Subspecialty elective (Transition to Discipline-TTD · 4 weeks)
- Inpatient Wards (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 8 weeks)
- Neonatology- Clinical Teaching Unit Junior rotation (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 4 weeks)
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 4 weeks)
- Complex Care Services (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 2 weeks)
- Anesthesia (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 2 weeks)
- Rural or Ambulatory Pediatrics (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 4 weeks if not done in TTD)
- Junior Ward Nightfloat (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 2-4 weeks depending on if done in TTD)
- Emergency Medicine (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 4 weeks if not done in TTD)
- Newborn Medicine (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 2 weeks if not done in TTD)
- Medical Day Hospital (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 4 weeks if not done in TTD)
- Subspecialty electives (Foundations of Discipline- FoD · 8 weeks)
- Inpatient Senior Wards (Core of Discipline- CoD (PGY-3/early PGY-4) · 12-weeks)
- Neonatology low acuity rotation (Core of Discipline- CoD (PGY-3/early PGY-4) · 4-weeks)
- Emergency Medicine (Core of Discipline- CoD (PGY-3/early PGY-4) · 4-weeks)
- Rural or Community Pediatrics (Core of Discipline- CoD (PGY-3/early PGY-4) · 4 weeks)
- Pediatric Critical Care/Neonatology Night Float (Core of Discipline- CoD (PGY-3/early PGY-4) · 2-weeks)
- Adolescent Medicine (Core of Discipline- CoD (PGY-2 or PGY-3) · 4-weeks)
- Developmental Pediatrics (Core of Discipline- CoD (PGY-2 or PGY-3) · 4-weeks)
- Social Pediatrics (Core of Discipline- CoD (PGY-2 or PGY-3) · 4-weeks)
- Selective and Elective Rotations (Core of Discipline- CoD · 40-44 weeks)
- Medical Day Hospital Junior Attending (Transition to Practice- TTP · 4-6-weeks)
- Complex Care Service Senior (Transition to Practice- TTP · 4-6-weeks)
- Acute Care Senior (Transition to Practice- TTP · 4-weeks)
- Inpatient Flow Junior Attending (Transition to Practice- TTP · 2-weeks)
- Nightfloat Senior (Transition to Practice- TTP · 5-weeks)
- One of Neonatology (low acuity) junior staff/newborn junior staff/community neonatology (Transition to Practice- TTP)
- Elective rotations including research (Transition to Practice- TTP · 18-25 weeks)
Where you train
Montreal, Quebec: 11 teaching sites; required rural rotation.
- The Montreal Children's Hospital
- Jewish General Hospital (perinatology)
- Réseau de formation en pédiatrie sociale (Montréal)
- St. Mary's Hospital
- Lasalle Hospital
- Centre UP
- Community Pediatric Clinics (resident continuity clinics)
- Centre Hospitalier de Gatineau (Gatineau · rural or distributed site)
- Centre Hospitalier de Val-d'Or (Val-d'Or · rural or distributed site)
- Hopital Ste-Justine (electives only)
- Other Québec rural sites, via CREPUQ (rural or distributed site)
Distributed across a region
Record systems at the listed sites: DCi-ChartMaxx at 1 of 11, TELUS at 1; no published record for 9.
Hospital facts
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.
The Montreal Children's Hospital
- Clinical record
- TELUS (Oacis), since 2006, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 25,738 · 2026–2027: 26,552
Jewish General Hospital (perinatology)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 37,934 · 2026–2027: 39,472
- Licensed beds
- physical health 516 · psychiatry 52 · geriatrics 28 · neonatology 34
St. Mary's Hospital
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 13,990 · 2026–2027: 14,053
- Licensed beds
- physical health 224 · psychiatry 29 · geriatrics 24
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Lasalle Hospital
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 11,354 · 2026–2027: 11,415
- Licensed beds
- physical health 110
Centre Hospitalier de Gatineau
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 16,018 · 2026–2027: 15,386
- Licensed beds
- physical health 121 · psychiatry 40 · neonatology 37
Centre Hospitalier de Val-d'Or
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 11,299 · 2026–2027: 11,152
- Licensed beds
- physical health 73 · geriatrics 8
Hopital Ste-Justine (electives only)
- Clinical record
- DCi-ChartMaxx (dossier clinique informatisé), fully electronic record since May 2014
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 27,172 · 2026–2027: 27,007
- Licensed beds
- physical health 333 · psychiatry 19 · neonatology 66
About Montréal
People
1,762,949residents, 2021 Census
Housing
2.9%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
−9.2 °CJanuary mean21.7 °CJuly mean
Job outlook
Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027
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. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (2027 match)
- 27, 28 and 29 Jan 2027; 1 and 2 Feb 2027
- Format
- Virtual
- Traditional (one on one/two on one)
- Panel
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.
8 Pediatrics info sessions at other programsAll info sessions
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-1 | $58,728 / year |
| PGY-2 | $64,809 / year |
| PGY-3 | $70,890 / year |
| PGY-4 | $76,969 / year |
Call
- Call (as the program states it)
- In-house call · night float
- 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
Benefits
- 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
Past matches
No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.
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.
Year by year
2027 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 6 | 4 years | 5 dates, 27 Jan – 2 Feb 2027 | Nothing noted |
2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 6 | 5 years | 5 dates, 28 Jan – 3 Feb 2026 |
The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
- McGill's Pediatrics program offers a comprehensive 4-year training experience in a children's hospital-based setting with a multicultural patient population.
- The program provides extensive clinical exposure, bilingual training, and a commitment to resident well-being, with opportunities for global health and research.
- Research
- One block per year of elective research time available in second, third, and fourth years, with mandatory scholarly project and annual research presentation.
- Training setting
- Urban pediatric hospital setting in Montreal, with rotations across multiple hospitals and rural sites in Quebec, offering diverse clinical experiences from newborn to young adult populations.
- Teaching approach
- Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) with progressive independence, focusing on entrustable professional activities (EPAs) and comprehensive skill development across four training stages.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- CASPer assessment
- Academic performance
- Reference documents
- Research/scholarly activities
- Elective experiences
- Interview performance
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr. Catherine Nolin
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
- Program office
Student Affairs Advisor
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing. Site staff and other contacts are listed there too.
Pediatrics elsewhere
Nearest to Montreal
- French
- French
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