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Sudbury - Family Medicine - Care of the Elderly

NOSM UniversitySudbury, OntarioCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

At a glance

Approx. quota
1 position
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
76–100%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

Not stated on CaRMS page

Sudbury, 2 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Individualized educational plan developed with the program director before the program begins.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Travel and housing support for core rotations away from the home base across Northern Ontario.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Training takes place in Sudbury, Thunder Bay and North Bay, with some rotations in Toronto and Ottawa.

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.
    Show the quote

    This program is an innovative residency offered throughout the North

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Regional community
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure
Optional rural rotation
Focus areas
  • Northern
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
Getting around
  • Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
  • Travel is reimbursed

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • In-patient Geriatric Assessment (8 · Sudbury, North Bay, Thunder Bay)
  • Geriatric Psychiatry (8 · Thunder Bay, North Bay)
  • Community Geriatrics (8 · Sudbury, North Bay, Thunder Bay)
  • Long-term Care (4 · Sudbury, North Bay, Thunder Bay, Timmins)
  • Movement Disorders (4 · Toronto)
  • Complex Dementia or Behavioural Neurology (4 · North Bay, Toronto)
  • Geriatric Rehabilitation (4 · Sudbury, Ottawa)
  • Research (4 · Sudbury, North Bay, Thunder Bay)
  • Palliative Care (4 · Sudbury, North Bay, Thunder Bay, Huntsville)
  • Elective (4 · Northern Ontario or external)
  • Horizontal Electives

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

Where you train

Sudbury, Ontario: 2 teaching sites; optional rural rotation.

  • University of Toronto (Toronto)
  • University of Ottawa (Ottawa)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: no published record for 2 of 2.

Hospital facts

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

About Greater Sudbury

  • People

    166,004residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury

  • Housing

    1.1%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Greater Sudbury, Ontario (census metropolitan area)

  • Winter and summer

    −12.7 °CJanuary mean19.1 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Sudbury, 19.4 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Greater Sudbury (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
Return of service
Required · IMGs only

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
Not stated on CaRMS page
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

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 PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$85,564 / 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.

Contacts and links

Program director

  • Dr. Rhea Galbraith

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Program office

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

NOSM Care of the Elderly(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Care of the Elderly elsewhere

Nearest to Sudbury

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · FM/ES 2027 match · last approved 13 Aug 2026.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34671 · How these pages are made ›

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 8 Oct 2026.

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