Montérégie - Médecine familiale

Université McGillMontérégie, QuebecRegular stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved date not on file

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

Positions (approx. quota): 11 positions
Length: 2 years
Stream: Regular
Discipline: Médecine familiale
Applications per year: 51–200
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Not stated on CaRMS page
CaRMS program ID: 30123

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

Summary

McGill's Family Medicine Residency Program in Montérégie offers a comprehensive two-year postdoctoral training experience across two University Family Medicine Groups (GMF-U) in Jardins-Roussillon and Vaudreuil. The program emphasizes continuous family medicine experience, coordinated medical specialty training, and rural practice exposure, with a focus on patient-centered care and lifelong learning.

Training

Research

Active research division with support for resident research projects, including mandatory critical appraisal/quality improvement project and opportunities to join existing research teams.

Training setting

Training occurs in urban and regional settings in Montérégie, including family medicine groups (GMF-U), community health centers (CLSC), and regional hospitals in Châteauguay and Vaudreuil-Dorion.

Teaching approach

Competency-based medical education focused on developing lifelong learners who can provide comprehensive, patient-centered care across diverse clinical settings.

Setting types

University Family Medicine Group
Community Health Center
Regional Hospital
Ambulatory Care
Rural Healthcare Facility

Focus areas

Family Medicine
Primary Care
Community Medicine
Rural Medicine
Multidisciplinary Healthcare

Patient populations

Diverse urban populations
Regional community patients
Pediatric patients
Geriatric patients
Palliative care patients

Highlights

Two-year fully accredited program
Multidisciplinary team training
Longitudinal patient care experience
Optional six-month rural training opportunity
Critical appraisal/quality improvement project mandatory
Optional third-year enhanced skills programs

Strengths

Strong multidisciplinary training environment
Comprehensive clinical exposure
Bilingual training opportunities
Emphasis on rural and community medicine
Structured academic and clinical curriculum

Enhanced skills

Emergency Medicine
Geriatric Care
Palliative Care
Hospital Medicine
Sports Medicine
Maternal and Child Health

By year

PGY-1

Family MedicineGMF-ULongitudinal
Medical SpecialtiesVariousCoordinated

PGY-2

Optional Rural Intensive TrainingRural communities6 months
Rural MedicineRural sites2 months
Family MedicineGMF-ULongitudinal

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

Academic performance
Structured reference letters
Personal letter
CV
CProMF exam
Interview performance
Language proficiency

Applications per year

51–200

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 30 janvier 2026; 2 février 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$58,728 / year
PGY-2	$64,809 / year

One provincial scale for Quebec, 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)

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

Call

Call (provincial max): 6 calls in an establishment per 28 days

The union agreement’s cap for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. Check with the program.

FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028.

Teaching sites

Hôpital Anna-Laberge
Hôpital du Suroît
CLSC Châteauguay
CLSC Vaudreuil-Dorion
GMF-U Jardins-Roussillon
GMF-U Vaudreuil-Soulanges

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.

Hôpital Anna-Laberge

Matched to Hôpital Anna-Laberge (Châteauguay) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 14,664 · 2026–2027: 16,689 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: physical health 251 · psychiatry 29 · geriatrics 13 · neonatology 5 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.

Hôpital du Suroît

Matched to Hôpital du Suroît (Salaberry-de-Valleyfield) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 16,707 · 2026–2027: 18,278 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: physical health 182 · psychiatry 39 · geriatrics 16 · neonatology 4 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.

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.)

Unfilled positions in past years

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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

Montérégie, Quebec

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 5 Oct 2026.