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Hamilton - Family Medicine - Sport and Exercise Medicine

McMaster UniversityHamilton, OntarioCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

At a glance

Approx. quota
Not stated on CaRMS page
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
26–50%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

1 date, 26 Oct 2026virtual

Hamilton, 2 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Dedicated sport psychiatry block in the sample schedule.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Required event and field coverage of McMaster University varsity athletics.

    From “Selection criteria” on the CaRMS page

  • McMaster's 12-month PGY-3 Sport and Exercise Medicine program is based in the Burlington/Hamilton area and leads to a CFPC Certificate of Added Competence.
  • The sample schedule has SEM blocks in Burlington, Hamilton and Niagara, plus an academic project block, pediatric SEM, orthopedics and sport psychiatry.
  • Residents are expected to cover events and fields for some McMaster varsity athletics.

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

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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    The primary practice setting is in Burlington/Hamilton area.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Urban community
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Research
Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project · protected time

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 1 · Burlington)
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 2 · Burlington)
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 3 · Hamilton David Braley Center)
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 4 · Hamilton David Braley Center)
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 5 · Niagara)
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 6 · Niagara)
  • Academic Project (Block 7 · Burlington)
  • Pediatric Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 8 · Hamilton)
  • Orthopedics (Block 9 · McMaster University Medical Centre)
  • Sport Psychiatry (Block 10 · Hamilton)
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 11 · Niagara)
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 12 · Burlington)
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine (Block 13 · Burlington)

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

Where you train

Hamilton, Ontario: 2 teaching sites.

  • Hamilton David Braley Center
  • McMaster University Medical Centre

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 1 of 2; no published record for 1.

Hospital facts

1 site · clinical record systems where an official source states them

What official sources say for hospitals named above, each with its source and the date we read it. They describe the hospital, not the program. We match names to the sources by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

McMaster University Medical Centre

Clinical record
Epic, fully electronic record since Jun 2022 As of 31 Oct 2026

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

Hospital size and activity: Ontario doesn't publish this as open data.

About Hamilton

  • People

    569,353residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Hamilton

  • Housing

    3.5%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Hamilton, Ontario (census metropolitan area)

  • Winter and summer

    −3.1 °CJanuary mean21.9 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Burlington Piers, 5.0 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Hamilton (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
Required · IMGs only

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
26 Oct 2026
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

Pay and call

Provincial scale, last updated 6 Jan 2025 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). Contract expired, may change. One provincial scale for Ontario, 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, Ontario
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$85,564 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (provincial max)
7 nights in 28 in-house
Post-call rule (provincial)
No new patient responsibilities after 24 hours in-hospital, except what clinical handover needs
Max continuous duty (provincial)
24 hours in-hospital, then relieved after handover (up to 2 hours)

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. PARO agreement, 1 Jul 2023 to 30 Jun 2026. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Contacts and links

Program director

  • Dr. Wade Elliott

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

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.

McMaster Enhanced Skills- Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM)(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Sport and Exercise Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Hamilton

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · FM/ES 2027 match · last approved 28 Jul 2026.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34605 · 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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