Thunder Bay - Anesthesiology

NOSM UniversityThunder Bay, Ontario

Approx. quota: CMG stream1 position−1 from 2 in the 2026 match
IMG stream1 position
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: CMG stream51–200
IMG stream0–50
Offered interviews: 26–50%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

IMG stream · open to international medical graduates

Return of service: Required

IMG requirement: Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program details under How they choose

Info session

details

Wed 4 Nov 2026,7:00 pm ET

Interviews

2 dates, 25–26 Jan 2027virtual

1 date, 25 Jan 2027Panel

Thunder Bay, 15 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

Program website CANPREPP profile CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

First anesthesiology program in Canada to implement components of a competency-based curriculum, in 2013.
From “Important information” on the CaRMS page
Residents are not needed for day-to-day hospital functioning, so the service-to-education balance favours the residents.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

NOSM University's Anesthesiology program is a 5-year residency with Thunder Bay or Sudbury as the primary training site.
It is a distributed program requiring travel, with clinical experiences available across Northern Ontario from small rural hospitals to regional centres.
Residents complete a mandatory three-month rotation at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and are expected to undertake a scholarly project.

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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Candidates who are well-suited to our program are those who can adapt and thrive in a hands-on, distributed residency program that requires flexibility and travel away from their primary location of residence.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting: Regional community
Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure: Optional rural rotation
Focus areas: Northern
Indigenous health
Small program
Early independence
Research: Required · research or quality-improvement project

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

rotation at the Hospital for Sick Children (three-month · Toronto)

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

Where you train

Thunder Bay, Ontario: 15 teaching sites; optional rural rotation.

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC)
Health Sciences North (HSN) (Sudbury)
Labelle Innovation and Learning Center (Sudbury)
North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) (North Bay · rural or distributed site)
Sault Area Hospital (SAH) (Sault Ste. Marie · rural or distributed site)
Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
Dryden District Health Centre (Dryden · rural or distributed site)
Lake of the Woods District Hospital (Kenora · rural or distributed site)
Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre (Sioux Lookout · rural or distributed site)
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (rural or distributed site)
Riverside Healthcare Facilities Inc. (Fort Frances · rural or distributed site)
St. Joseph’s Care Group (rural or distributed site)

Show all 15 sites

Temiskaming Hospital (rural or distributed site)
Timmins and District Hospital (Timmins · rural or distributed site)
Notre Dame Hospital (Hearst · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 1 of 15, MEDITECH at 11, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1; no published record for 2.

Moving to a new system: Health Sciences North (HSN); Dryden District Health Centre; Lake of the Woods District Hospital; Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre; Riverside Healthcare Facilities Inc.; Temiskaming Hospital; Timmins and District Hospital; Notre Dame Hospital.

Hospital facts

13 sites · 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.

Clinical record: MEDITECH Expanse (ONE HIS), moving to a new system As of 31 Oct 2026. At Health Sciences North (HSN), Temiskaming Hospital, Timmins and District Hospital, Notre Dame Hospital.
Clinical record: MEDITECH Expanse (ONE HIS), fully electronic record since Oct 2019 As of 31 Oct 2026. At North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC), Sault Area Hospital (SAH).
Clinical record: MEDITECH Expanse, moving to a new system As of 31 Oct 2026. At Dryden District Health Centre, Lake of the Woods District Hospital, Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre, Riverside Healthcare Facilities Inc..

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC)

Clinical record: MEDITECH Expanse, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

Hospital for Sick Children

Clinical record: Epic, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare

Clinical record: Cerner, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

ONE HITS runs MEDITECH Expanse for northeastern Ontario hospitals in two waves: the three founding hospitals went live in October 2019; the 20 hospitals of Wave 2 (including Health Sciences North) are moving over, with no date on the page. 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 Thunder Bay

People
108,843residents, 2021 Census
Municipality of Thunder Bay
Housing
3.9%rental vacancy rate
October 2025 survey, Thunder Bay, Ontario (census metropolitan area)
Winter and summer
−13.4 °CJanuary mean18.0 °CJuly mean
1991–2020 normals, Thunder Bay, 6.3 km away
Job outlook
Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Thunder Bay (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
Other file component(s)
Return of service, CMG stream: Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service, IMG stream: Required
IMG requirements, IMG stream: Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match), CMG stream: 25 and 26 Jan 2027
Interview dates (2027 match), IMG stream: 25 Jan 2027
Format, CMG stream: Virtual
Panel
Format, IMG stream: Panel

Info sessions

Wed 4 Nov 2026
7:00 pm ET
Info session · VirtualCANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)
Link for NOSM University, Wed 4 Nov 2026 (opens in a new tab)

From the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), read 20 Oct 2026; a row tagged CANPREPP is on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026), alone or as well. Dates and times are as the program wrote them; “your time” is worked out in your browser when your time zone differs. Programs add and change sessions.

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 the 5 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$73,367 / year
PGY-2	$79,670 / year
PGY-3	$85,564 / year
PGY-4	$92,701 / year
PGY-5	$98,567 / 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.

Past matches

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

Positions at this site, all streams.

What this means

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 or how heavy the workload is.
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.

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)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews	What changed
CMG stream	1	5 years	2 dates, 25–26 Jan 2027Virtual	Positions 2 → 1 from the 2026 match
IMG stream	1	5 years	1 date, 25 Jan 2027Panel	New for 2027 CaRMS page changed during the match: requirements (noticed 13 Oct)

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG stream	2	5 years	4 dates, 22 Jan 2025 – 23 Jan 2026
IMG streamSudbury - Anesthesiology	1	5 years	1 date, 20 Jan 2026

The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description

The NOSM University Anesthesiology program offers a comprehensive, competency-based training experience in Northern Ontario.
Residents receive exceptional clinical training with a strong focus on active learning, simulation, and exposure to diverse medical settings across the region.

Research: Comprehensive physician-scholar program with structured research milestones, including clinical research, basic sciences research, and quality improvement projects.
Training setting: Training occurs primarily in Northern Ontario hospitals, including Health Sciences North in Sudbury, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, North Bay Regional Health Centre, and Sault Area Hospital, with opportunities in 22 affiliated hospitals.
Teaching approach: Active learning through problem-based learning, simulation, and competency-based education with frequent feedback and individualized learning plans.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Academic record
Interpersonal skills
Communication abilities
Leadership potential
Commitment to lifelong learning
Research/scholarly activities

Positions, length and interviews as each match’s CaRMS pages stated them; what changed from our comparison of the two matches and our readings of the 2027 pages.

Contacts and links

Program director: Dr. Sarah McIsaac
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Program office: Program Coordinator, Postgraduate Medical Education
Email on the CaRMS page(opens in a new tab)

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

Program websiteWebsite CANPREPPCANPREPP This program on CaRMS

Anesthesiology elsewhere

Nearest to Thunder Bay

Winnipeg - AnesthesiologyUniversity of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB · 598 km
8 positions · CMG
Sudbury - AnesthesiologyNOSM University
Sudbury · 655 km
2 positions · CMG
London - AnesthesiologyWestern University
London · 863 km
9 positions · CMG, IMG

In these collections:

Source

The CMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 8 Sep 2026 · The IMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 7 Oct 2026 · 2027 match · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 36366 (CMG stream), 35528 (IMG stream) · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

What changed, noticed 13 Oct: IMG stream: Language proficiency: wording changed. See what changed

We read each program’s CaRMS page about every two weeks and note what differs. The date is when we noticed it; the change was made in the window shown. Reformatting is not listed, and a contacts change is listed without names.

Noticed 13 Octchanged between 5 and 13 Oct
- IMG stream: Language proficiency: wording changed
  … at the undergraduate medical school was conducted completely in English, then a candidate can submit a copy, or printout, of the World Directory of Medical Schools website listing the medical school which clearly states that the language of instruction is …
  From the CaRMS page, read 13 Oct

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 24 Oct 2026.

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