Northern Thompson - Family Medicine

University of ManitobaNorthern Thompson, ManitobaIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 10 Nov 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 2 positions
Length: 2 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 601+
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 29702

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

Summary

The University of Manitoba's Northern Thompson Family Medicine stream offers a comprehensive two-year residency training experience in Northern Manitoba. Residents will develop a broad skillset to meet the needs of rural and urban communities, with extensive interprofessional training and exposure to diverse patient populations across multiple clinical settings.

Training

Research

The Department of Family Medicine provides opportunities to perform research with practical outcomes, offering workshops to all Family Medicine residents.

Training setting

Training primarily in Thompson, Manitoba, with clinical experiences at Thompson General Hospital and Thompson Clinic, supplemented by distributed training sites across Northern Manitoba including communities like The Pas, Flin Flon, Lynn Lake, and others.

Teaching approach

Competency-based medical education with an emphasis on progressive independence, interprofessional collaboration, and developing comprehensive skills to practice in diverse northern and rural environments.

Setting types

Community Hospital
Regional Referral Hospital
Rural Clinic
Urban Medical Center

Focus areas

Rural Medicine
Northern Community Medicine
Indigenous Health
Full Scope Family Medicine
Complex Chronic Disease Management

Patient populations

Urban Community Patients
Rural Community Patients
First Nations Patients
Pediatric Patients
Geriatric Patients
Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions

Highlights

Integrated Indigenous Health Training
Interprofessional Practice Exposure
Distributed Training Sites
Horizontal Point-of-Care Ultrasound Experience
Integrative Medicine Fellowship Option
Mandatory Courses (ACLS, ATLS, ALARM, NRP)
Travel and Accommodation Costs Covered
Training in Fly-in First Nations Communities

Strengths

Comprehensive Northern Manitoba Training
High Clinical Volume and Skill Diversity
Low Preceptor-to-Learner Ratio
Accessible Local Specialists
Integrated Curriculum with Broad Exposure

Enhanced skills

Addictions
Family Medicine Anesthesia
Cancer Care
Care of the Elderly
Emergency Medicine
Obstetrical Surgical Skills
Palliative Care
Sports & Exercise Medicine

By year

PGY-1

Airway ManagementThompson2 weeks
Family MedicineThompson ClinicMultiple blocks
PediatricsChildren's Hospital, Winnipeg1 rotation
Emergency MedicineThompson General Hospital1 rotation

PGY-2

ObstetricsThompson General Hospital8 weeks
NeonatologyWinnipeg2 weeks
Family MedicineThompson ClinicMultiple blocks
Palliative MedicineWinnipeg1 rotation
Trauma SurgeryHealth Sciences Centre, Winnipeg1 rotation

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

MCCQE Part I
NAC Examination
FMProC Assessment
Personal Letter
CV/Resume
Reference Letters
Medical School Transcript

Applications per year

601+

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 20, 21 and 22 Jan 2026

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

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

Thompson General Hospital
Children's Hospital (Winnipeg)
Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 6 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 0 of 9 years.

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

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	2 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	2 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2024	0	0
2025	1 position open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2026	1 position 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

Northern Thompson, Manitoba

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: −23.4 °C Thompson, 6.4 km away
July average: 16.2 °C Thompson, 6.4 km away
Snowfall: 180.3 cm a year Thompson, 6.4 km away
Days below −20 °C: 101.1 days a year Thompson, 6.4 km away

People

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

Population: 13,035 people down 4.7% from 2016
Official languages: English only 93.4% · French only 0.1% · English and French 5.8% · neither 0.7% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 13.4% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 4.6% · non-permanent residents: 1.7%
Indigenous identity: 45.5% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 87.0% · public transit 1.0% · walking or cycling 9.6% · other 2.4% Average commute: 11.5 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: $96,000 before tax $82,000 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: Thompson, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people) 12,329 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.438 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.
Student loan forgiveness: Family medicine here may qualify for up to $60,000 of Canada Student Loan forgiveness. Eligibility depends on the postal code of where you work: check the official postal-code lookup. Postal-code lookup(opens in a new tab)

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: 6.0% October 2025 survey, Thompson, Manitoba (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $53,873 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Manitoba, population under 30,000, 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.

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: Good The employment outlook will be Good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the North 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.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
Adapted from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey, October 2025 (vacancy rates), and Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0132-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Statistics Canada of this product.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), 2024 to 2033 projections).
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, 3-Year Employment Outlooks).
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Index of Remoteness (17-26-0001), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, Canada Student Loan Forgiveness (Canada.ca), page dated 2026-06-03.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0066-01 Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for the reference family by Market Basket Measure region, component and base year, 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0011-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0002-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0057-01 Household income statistics by household type: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0173-01 Mother tongue by knowledge of official languages: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0266-01 Indigenous identity by Registered or Treaty Indian status: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0307-01 Immigrant status and period of immigration by place of birth: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0458-01 Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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.