Sudbury - Family Medicine - Family Practice Anesthesia
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
- 2
- Length
- 1
- Applications per year
- 0–50
- Offered interviews
- 51–75%
Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
1 date, 10 Nov 2026
Sudbury, 15 teaching sites · 4 rural weeks
What stands out about this program
Hosts a nationally recognized 5-day simulation-based Anesthesia Boot Camp attended by trainees across Canada.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Six consecutive weeks of pediatric anesthesia at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Residents serve as code team leader on a resident-led Code Blue Team at Health Sciences North.
From “Additional information” on the CaRMS page
- This one-year NOSM University enhanced-skills program trains family physicians to provide anesthesia services in rural communities.
- Residents are based at Health Sciences North in Sudbury or Sault Area Hospital, spending most of the year in core anesthesia at their primary site.
- Away rotations include adult critical care, six weeks of pediatric anesthesia at CHEO in Ottawa, community anesthesia, and a rural comprehensive family medicine month in Northern Ontario.
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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What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Regional community
- Rural / remote
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation (4 weeks)
- Focus areas
- Northern
- Rural / remote
- 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
- Core Anesthesia (34 · Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie)
- Consolidative Family Practice (4 · Huntsville, Bracebridge, Kenora, Dryden)
- Community Anesthesia (4 · North Bay, Timmins, Sioux Lookout, Parry Sound)
- ICU (4 · Sudbury)
- Pediatrics (6 · Ottawa (CHEO))
Where you train
Sudbury, Ontario: 15 teaching sites; 4 rural weeks.
- Health Sciences North (HSN)
- Sault Area Hospital (SAH) (Sault Ste. Marie)
- Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) (Ottawa)
- Labelle Innovation and Learning Center
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) (Thunder Bay)
- North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) (North Bay · rural or distributed site)
- 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)
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- 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
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
- Clinical record
- MEDITECH Expanse (ONE HIS), fully electronic record since Oct 2019
- Clinical record
- MEDITECH Expanse, moving to a new system
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
- Clinical record
- Epic, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC)
- Clinical record
- MEDITECH Expanse, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare
- Clinical record
- Cerner, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
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.
Hospital size and activity: Ontario doesn't publish this as open data.
About Greater Sudbury
People
166,004residents, 2021 Census
Housing
1.1%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
−12.7 °CJanuary mean19.1 °CJuly mean
Job outlook
not published for this specialty
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
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
- 10 Nov 2026
- Format
- Virtual
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-3 | $85,564 / year |
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)
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr. Sarah McIsaac
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
- Program office
Program Coordinator
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.
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