Northern Remote - Family Medicine

University of ManitobaNorthern Remote, ManitobaIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 4 Sep 2026 · See the 2026 version

2027 match programs, from CaRMS as of 5 Oct 2026. Programs can still change until file review opens 26 November; we re-check every two weeks. Always confirm on CaRMS (opens in a new tab).

Positions (approx. quota): 5 positions
Length: 2 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 601+
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 36149

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

Summary

This two-year family medicine stream spends most of the first year in Winnipeg and most of the second year at remote and northern sites.
First-year family medicine is based at Northern Connection Medical Centre, a teaching unit that focuses on underserved populations.
Second-year sites include communities in northern Manitoba, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, and the program covers travel and accommodation costs.

Training

Setting

Mixed settings
Academic / tertiary hospital
Urban community
Rural / remote

Sites

19 teaching sites

Northern Connection Medical Centre (NCMC)
Seven Oaks Hospital
Nine Circles Community Health Centre

Show all 19

Children’s Hospital
Health Sciences Centre
Grace
St Boniface
Island Lakes Fly-in communities
Churchill Health Centre
Flin Flon
the Pas
Thompson
Swan River
Norway House Hospital
Percy E. Moore Hospital
Yellowknife
Iqaluit
Rankin Inlet
Selkirk

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Required rural rotation (4 weeks)

Focus areas

Rural / remote
Northern
Indigenous health
Underserved urban
POCUS curriculum

Research

Offered · research project

Enhanced skills

Addiction Medicine
Anesthesia
Other
Care of the Elderly
Emergency Medicine
Obstetrical Surgical Skills
Palliative Care
Sport and Exercise Medicine

Getting around

A car is required
Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
Travel is reimbursed

Highlights

Training at fly-in First Nations communities and Inuit communities in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
An optional northern first year in the Island Lake fly-in communities, with up to three residents selected through an internal match.
Residents receive a northern food stipend for every day spent in the north.

By year

PGY-1

HIV/Hepatitis C careNine Circles Community Health Centretwo-week
Children’s Emergencyone rotation
Family MedicineNorthern Connection Medical Centre (NCMC) in Winnipeg
Adult Emergencyone of the tertiary hospitals in Winnipeg

PGY-2

small, First Nations communitiesapproximately 4 weeks
family medicine in your home clinicNCMCa block
selective2-week
Family Medicinenorthern or remote sites

From the program's rotation list.

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

neonatology (2 weeks · Winnipeg)
sports medicine (2 weeks · Winnipeg)
orthopedics (2 weeks · Winnipeg)
addiction medicine (2 weeks · Winnipeg)
in-patient pediatrics (2 weeks · Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg)
out-patient pediatrics (2 weeks · Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg)
psychiatry (2 weeks · Winnipeg)
ICU (4 weeks · Winnipeg)
trauma surgery (4 weeks · Acute Trauma Surgery Unit at the Health Sciences Centre)
Obstetrics (two months · Winnipeg)

Selection

Application file components

CV
Electives
Examinations
Extra-curricular
Leadership skills
MSPRs
Personal letters
Reference documents
Research/Publications
Transcripts
Other file component(s)

Return of service

Required · IMGs only

IMG requirements

Recent clinical experience (within 10 years)

Applications per year

601+

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)

19, 20 and 21 Jan 2027

Format

Panel

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

Info sessions

Thu 5 Nov 20267:00–8:30 pm CST
Info session · Virtual
Link for University of Manitoba, Thu 5 Nov 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Thu 19 Nov 20267:00–8:00 pm CST
Info session · Virtual
Link for University of Manitoba, Thu 19 Nov 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Wed 2 Dec 20267:00–8:00 pm CST
Info session · Virtual
Link for University of Manitoba, Wed 2 Dec 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Wed 9 Dec 20267:00–8:00 pm CST
Info session · VirtualCheck with the program
Link for University of Manitoba, Wed 9 Dec 2026 (opens in a new tab)

From the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), read 1 Oct 2026. Dates and times are as the program wrote them, not converted to your time zone. Programs add and change sessions: confirm with the program.

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 22 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Manitoba
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$72,171 / year
PGY-2	$77,416 / year

One provincial scale for Manitoba, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 2 levels this program covers.

Call

Call (provincial max): 7 calls per 4-week block, in-house and home call combined

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

PARIM agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

Northern Connection Medical Centre (NCMC) (Winnipeg)
Seven Oaks Hospital (Winnipeg)
Nine Circles Community Health Centre (Winnipeg)
Children’s Hospital (Winnipeg)
Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)
Grace (Winnipeg)
St Boniface (Winnipeg)
Island Lakes Fly-in communities (rural or distributed site)
Churchill Health Centre (Churchill · rural or distributed site)
Flin Flon (Flin Flon · rural or distributed site)
the Pas (The Pas · rural or distributed site)
Thompson (Thompson · rural or distributed site)
Swan River (Swan River · rural or distributed site)
Norway House Hospital (Norway House · rural or distributed site)
Percy E. Moore Hospital (Hodgson · rural or distributed site)
Yellowknife (Yellowknife · rural or distributed site)
Iqaluit (Iqaluit · rural or distributed site)
Rankin Inlet (Rankin Inlet · rural or distributed site)
Selkirk (Selkirk)

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 7 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 2 of 9 years.

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

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	3 positions open after round 1 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	2 positions open after round 2 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
2020	4 positions open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	1 position open after round 2 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
2021	5 positions open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2022	1 position 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)	0
2024	0	0
2025	2 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2026	2 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

Grouped by the titles CaRMS lists. The program office (administrators and coordinators) usually answers questions about the program and applying; the director leads the training.

Program officeadministrators and coordinators

shannon.rankin@umanitoba.ca

Shannon Rankin · Postgraduate Program Coordinator

Program director

Dr. Leah Peters
Postgraduate Program Director

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Site staffdirectors and coordinators at the teaching sites

Dr. Soujanya Chavali
Site Education Director PGY1
Dr. Joanna Lynch
Site Education Director PGY2

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

Location

Northern Remote, Manitoba

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 6 Oct 2026.