Moncton - Family Medicine

Dalhousie UniversityMoncton, New BrunswickCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 9 Oct 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 8 positions
Length: 2 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 401–600
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 31031

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

Summary

The Dalhousie Family Medicine Moncton program offers comprehensive training in a vibrant, supportive environment located in southeastern New Brunswick. Residents receive solid clinical learning and academic curriculum across diverse settings, with a strong emphasis on community-based family medicine and comprehensive patient care.

Training

Research

Residents complete a mandatory scholarly project with support from a Resident Project Coordinator, with opportunities to collaborate on primary care research.

Training setting

Located in Moncton, New Brunswick, with training across various Maritime community settings, including urban hospital and rural clinic environments. Primarily based at The Moncton Hospital, a 400-bed facility with strong family medicine integration.

Teaching approach

Competency-based medical education emphasizing progressive independence, self-directed learning, and comprehensive clinical experiences across diverse practice settings.

Setting types

Academic medical center
Community hospital
Rural clinic

Focus areas

Community Family Medicine
Rural Medicine
Primary Care
Comprehensive Patient Care
Generalist Practice

Patient populations

Community clinic patients
Hospitalized patients
Rural community patients
Long-term care patients
Marginalized populations

Highlights

Primary preceptor teaching model
Core experiences in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery
Robust core simulation training
Opportunities to teach medical students
Research project requirements
Evidence-based medicine curriculum
Graduated levels of responsibility
Longitudinal patient follow-up

Strengths

Distributed medical education model
Strong community integration
Comprehensive clinical training
Supportive learning environment
Emphasis on rural and community medicine

Enhanced skills

Emergency Medicine
Palliative Care
Care of the Elderly

By year

PGY-1

Core Family MedicineMoncton8 weeks
Internal MedicineMoncton8 weeks
Obstetrics/GynecologyMoncton8 weeks
Rural Family MedicineMaritime Provinces4 weeks
General SurgeryMoncton4 weeks
OrthopaedicsMoncton4 weeks
Emergency MedicineMoncton4 weeks
PediatricsMoncton4 weeks
Plastics/DermatologyMoncton4 weeks (2 weeks of each)
SelectiveMoncton4 weeks
VacationPer Resident4 weeks

PGY-2

Integrated Family Medicine + PsychiatryMoncton20 weeks
Community Family MedicineMaritime Provinces12 weeks
Residents can arrange up to of their elective time outside the Maritime Provinces. Other electives time must be done Maritime Provinces. Residents can apply to do more than outside the Maritime Provinces for global health experiences.the4 weeks
CCUMoncton4 weeks
Geriatric MedicineMoncton4 weeks
Palliative CareMoncton4 weeks
Electives (x2)Per Resident4 weeks each (2 electives)
VacationPer Resident4 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

Medical Student Performance Record
Personal letter
Reference letters
Interview performance
FMProC assessment

Applications per year

401–600

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 13, 24 and 27 Nov 2025; 10, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 Jan 2026; 6 Feb 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 24 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$78,578 / year
PGY-2	$83,904 / year

One provincial scale for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, 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
Call stipend: Yes
CMPA dues paid: Yes
Dental coverage: Yes
Educational leave: Yes
Extended health insurance: Yes
Frequency of call: l in 4 in-hospital and for homecall
Life insurance: $100,000 of insurance
Long-term disabilityinsurance: 66.7% of salary
Maternity leave top up after one year’s service: eligible for up to a maximum of 17 weeks top-up allowance for maternity/pregnancy leave
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1.30%
Provincial health insurance: Yes
Sick leave: Yes
Statutory and floating holidays: paid

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 night 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.

MarDocs agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

The Moncton 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.

The Moncton Hospital

Matched to The Moncton Hospital / L’Hôpital de Moncton (Moncton) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds: 381 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – New Brunswick.

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 5 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 1 of 9 years.

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: Moncton.

Positions at this site, all streams, still open after round 1 and after round 2, by year. Each count above zero links to the CaRMS list page it comes from.
Year	Open after round 1	Open after round 2
2018	not available	0
2019	0	0
2020	2 positions open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2021	0	0
2022	5 positions open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2023	3 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	1 position open after round 2 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
2024	0	0
2025	1 position open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2026	7 positions open after round 1 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0

CaRMS’s first-round list for 2018 was not found, so round 1 is counted over 8 years and round 2 over 9.

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. Verify with the CaRMS lists. Source: CaRMS’s lists of positions open after round 1 and after round 2, as read in October 2026 (latest: 2026 round 1 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab), 2026 round 2 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab)). 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.

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

Moncton, New Brunswick

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: −8.4 °C Moncton, 7.1 km away
July average: 19.3 °C Moncton, 7.1 km away
Snowfall: 309.9 cm a year Moncton, 7.1 km away
Days below −20 °C: 11.7 days a year Moncton, 7.1 km away

People

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

Population: 79,470 people up 10.5% from 2016
Official languages: English only 53.2% · French only 2.6% · English and French 43.6% · neither 0.6% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 10.9% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 5.7% · non-permanent residents: 4.8%
Indigenous identity: 2.7% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 85.7% · public transit 3.5% · walking or cycling 8.3% · other 2.5% Average commute: 14.7 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: $68,000 before tax $60,000 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: Moncton, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 119,785 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.258 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: 3.8% October 2025 survey, Moncton, New Brunswick (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $55,159 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Moncton, New Brunswick, 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: 7.6% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Moncton, New Brunswick (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.7 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: Very good The employment outlook will be Very good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the Moncton - Richibucto 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.