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Thunder Bay - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine

NOSM UniversityThunder Bay, OntarioCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

At a glance

Approx. quota
4 positions
Length
1 year
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
26–50%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

2 dates, 22–23 Oct 2026virtual

Thunder Bay, 7 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Structured POCUS training with EDE course and CPOCUS Core IP and Resuscitation track training.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Housing support for away core rotations up to 6 months per year, plus travel funding.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Pre-hospital care exposure, including ORNGE base hospital shifts and possible flight experiences.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This one-year family medicine emergency medicine program bases Thunder Bay stream residents at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, a designated trauma centre.
  • Training includes the EDE course and CPOCUS Core IP and Resuscitation track ultrasound training, and residents are expected to complete a scholarly project.

The summary is written by CdnMD from the program’s CaRMS description.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Optional rural rotation
Focus areas
  • POCUS curriculum
  • Northern
  • Procedural emphasis
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project
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.

  • Tertiary Care Emergency (20 weeks · Sudbury, Thunder Bay)
  • Community Emergency / Rural Emergency (4 weeks · Huntsville, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins, Kenora, Sioux Lookout, Espanola, Sturgeon Falls)
  • Anesthesia (4 weeks · Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie)
  • Intensive Care (8 weeks · Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie)
  • Ortho/Plastics (4 weeks · Thunder Bay, Sudbury)
  • Pediatric Emergency (4 weeks · Ottawa (CHEO), Toronto (SickKids), London (LHSC))
  • Trauma (4 weeks · Toronto (Sunnybrook or St. Michael’s ))
  • Elective (4 weeks)

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

Where you train

Thunder Bay, Ontario: 7 teaching sites; optional rural rotation.

  • Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
  • Health Sciences North (Sudbury)
  • CHEO (Ottawa)
  • SickKids (Toronto)
  • LHSC (London)
  • Sunnybrook (Toronto)
  • St. Michael’s (Toronto)

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 1 of 7, MEDITECH at 2, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1; no published record for 3.

Moving to a new system: Sunnybrook (scheduled 2027). Health Sciences North.

Hospital facts

4 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.

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre

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

Health Sciences North

Clinical record
MEDITECH Expanse (ONE HIS), moving to a new system As of 31 Oct 2026

CHEO

Clinical record
Epic, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026
Show facts for 1 more sites

Sunnybrook

Clinical record
Oracle Health, moving to a new system, scheduled 2027 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

    not published for this specialty

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
Required · IMGs only

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
22 and 23 Oct 2026
Format
Virtual
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)
  • 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 (as the program states it)
In-house 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. Melanie Squarzolo

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. Site staff and other contacts are listed there too.

NOSM U FM/EM Program(opens in a new tab)www.nosm.ca/postgrad(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Thunder Bay

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · FM/ES 2027 match · last approved 15 Jul 2026.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34590 · 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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