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Huntsville - Family Medicine

NOSM UniversityHuntsville, OntarioCMG streamNew for 2027

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
Length
2 years
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
76–100%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Social

all 2 info sessions of this program

Thu 7 Jan 2027,7:00 pm EST

Interviews

3 dates, 21–23 Jan 2027virtual

Huntsville, 2 teaching sites · based in a rural community

A car is recommended

After residency in Ontario: capitation model, entry capped

Program website(opens in a new tab)Instagram(opens in a new tab)CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Designated hospitalist weeks on inpatient care, supervised by family physician preceptors.

    From “Training sites” on the CaRMS page

  • Additional $1500 donor funding for rural stream residents to attend skills courses such as CASTED, AIME or ALARM.

    From “Training sites” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a 2-year NOSM University family medicine program based in Huntsville, a rural community of about 24,000 in Muskoka.
  • Training follows a community-based preceptor model, including Huntsville District Memorial Hospital and South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge.
  • Residents spend 24 weeks per year in rural family medicine, with off-service rotations commonly completed in Sudbury and North Bay.

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

    can adapt and thrive in a hands-on, distributed residency program that requires flexibility and some travel away from their primary location of residence

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Rural / remote
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Based in a rural community
Focus areas
  • Rural / remote
  • Northern
  • Indigenous health
Research
Offered · research or quality-improvement project
Getting around
  • A car is recommended
  • Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
  • Travel is reimbursed

By year

PGY-1
  • Family Medicine Rural24 weeks
  • Electives8 weeks
  • Internal Medicine4 weeks
  • Emergency Medicine4 weeks
  • Obstetrics/Women’s Health4 weeks
  • Mental Health4 weeks
  • Pediatrics4 weeks
PGY-2
  • Family Medicine Rural24 weeks
  • Electives8 weeks
  • CARE Selective (Community Aligned Resident Experience)4 weeks
  • Internal Medicine4 weeks
  • Emergency Medicine4 weeks
  • Obstetrics/Women’s Health4 weeks
  • Surgical Selective4 weeks

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

Where you train

Huntsville, Ontario: 2 teaching sites; based in a rural community. A car is recommended.

  • Huntsville District Memorial Hospital
  • South Muskoka Memorial Hospital (Bracebridge)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 2 of 2.

Hospital facts

2 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
Cerner, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026. At Huntsville District Memorial Hospital, South Muskoka Memorial Hospital.

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 Huntsville

  • People

    21,147residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Huntsville

  • Housing

    not published for this area

  • Winter and summer

    −10.0 °CJanuary mean19.1 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Muskoka, 40.3 km away

  • Job outlook

    Very goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Huntsville (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
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
21, 22 and 23 Jan 2027
Format
Virtual
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

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 2 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$73,367 / year
PGY-2
$79,670 / 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.

After residency

Family doctors in Ontario can join a model that pays for enrolled patients, hours worked and visits: the Family Health Organization (FHO), FHO+ since 1 April 2026. A new graduate is a physician who joins a patient enrolment model within three years of completing a family medicine residency; the status runs for 12 months from joining. Entry is capped: 40 physicians a month for FHO, 60 a month for FHO+ in the first year of the 2024-2028 agreement; later years to be determined. Compare provinces

Official pages read 31 Oct 2026.

Contacts and links

Program director

  • Dr. Jason Sutherland

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.

Program websiteWebsiteInstagramVideo - Family Medicine at NOSM University(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Huntsville

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Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 9 Oct 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 37201 · How these pages are made ›

What changed, noticed 13 Oct: Reference documents: wording changed. See what changed

What changed on the program’s CaRMS page

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.

  1. Noticed 13 Octchanged between 5 and 13 Oct

    • Reference documents: wording changed

      … your attitudes toward learning, and your commitment to Family Medicine. If possible, one or more SRLs completed by a Family …
      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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