Sudbury - Family Medicine - Palliative Care
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
- Length
- 1
- Applications per year
- 0–50
- Offered interviews
- 0–25%
Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
Not stated on CaRMS page
Sudbury, 8 teaching sites · 8 rural weeks
What stands out about this program
Mandatory rural Northern Ontario palliative care rotation, with residents choosing among Mindemoya, Marathon, Huntsville, North Bay or Sault Ste. Marie.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Residents take part in virtual palliative care delivery through the Ontario TeleHealth Network and phone consultation.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Housing is provided for mandatory rotations away from the home base.
From “Important information” on the CaRMS page
- NOSM University offers a 12-month enhanced skills residency in palliative care, with residents based at Health Sciences North in Sudbury or in Thunder Bay.
- The year starts and ends with the home palliative care team, and residents also rotate in a rural Northern Ontario community, at the other tertiary site and at a tertiary unit in Ottawa.
- Residents complete a scholarly project, which they present in a year-end Grand Rounds.
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
- Rural / remote
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation (8 weeks)
- Focus areas
- Rural / remote
- Northern
- family_practice_continuity
- Research
- Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
- Getting around
- Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- Junior Palliative Medicine Consultation (8 · Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Thunder Bay, O N ) or Health Sciences North (Sudbury, O N ))
- Hospice/Palliative Care Unit (4 · Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Thunder Bay, O N ) or Health Sciences North (Sudbury, O N ))
- Rural Community Palliative Care (8 · Mindemoya, Marathon, Huntsville, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie)
- Tertiary Palliative Care Unit (4 · University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON)
- Palliative Medicine Consultation (4 · Health Sciences North (Sudbury, O N ) or Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Thunder Bay, O N ))
- Medical Oncology (2 · Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Thunder Bay, ON) or Health Sciences North (Sudbury, ON))
- Radiation Oncology (2 · Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Thunder Bay, ON) or Health Sciences North (Sudbury, ON))
- Electives (12 · Resident choice)
- Senior Palliative Medicine Consultation (8 · Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Thunder Bay, ON) or Health Sciences North (Sudbury, ON))
Where you train
Sudbury, Ontario: 8 teaching sites; 8 rural weeks.
- Health Sciences North
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Thunder Bay)
- University of Ottawa (Ottawa)
- Mindemoya (Mindemoya · rural or distributed site)
- Marathon (Marathon · rural or distributed site)
- Huntsville (Huntsville · rural or distributed site)
- North Bay (North Bay · rural or distributed site)
- Sault Ste. Marie (Sault Ste. Marie · rural or distributed site)
Distributed across a region
Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 4 of 8, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1; no published record for 3.
Moving to a new system: Health Sciences North.
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), fully electronic record since Oct 2019
Health Sciences North
- Clinical record
- MEDITECH Expanse (ONE HIS), moving to a new system
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
- Clinical record
- MEDITECH Expanse, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Huntsville
- 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)
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Format
- Virtual
- Panel
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. Megan Sellick
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.
Family Medicine - Palliative Care elsewhere
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