Prince George - Psychiatry

University of British ColumbiaPrince George, British ColumbiaCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 25 Aug 2025

From the 2026 match (R-1 2026). See the 2027 version

Positions (approx. quota): 2 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Psychiatry
Applications per year: 51–200
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 29194

Bands are 5-year averages the program reports to CaRMS. They describe past cycles, not your odds.

Summary

The UBC Psychiatry Residency Program in Prince George offers a comprehensive 5-year training experience focused on developing well-rounded psychiatrists for northern and rural areas. Located in the capital of northern British Columbia, this program provides unique opportunities to work with diverse patient populations and gain extensive clinical experience in a challenging healthcare environment.

Training

Research

Residents have protected research time, with 2 dedicated Research Track positions offering 1 day per week of research time, and opportunities for scholarly activities throughout training.

Training setting

Training occurs at the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC) in Prince George, a tertiary referral facility serving a vast geographical area including rural and remote Indigenous communities.

Teaching approach

Emphasizes progressive independence, competency-based medical education, and development of critical thinking skills with a focus on producing adaptable, comprehensive general psychiatrists.

Setting types

Academic Medical Center
Community Hospital
Rural Training Site

Focus areas

Rural Psychiatry
General Psychiatry
Community Mental Health
Indigenous Healthcare
Addiction Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Geriatric Psychiatry

Patient populations

Rural Communities
Indigenous Populations
Urban and Industrial Community Members
Marginalized Populations
Adolescents
Adults
Geriatric Patients
Patients with Complex Mental Health Needs

Highlights

Distributed Model of Training
Exposure to Diverse Patient Populations
Comprehensive Psychotherapy Curriculum
Research Opportunities
Longitudinal Research Track
Interprovincial and International Elective Options
Competency By Design Curriculum

Strengths

Comprehensive Training in General Psychiatry
Strong Focus on Rural and Northern Healthcare
Diverse Clinical Exposure
High-Quality Research Opportunities
Supportive Learning Environment
Emphasis on Cultural Competency

Enhanced skills

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship

By year

PGY-1

Transition to DisciplinePsychiatry Setting1 month
Internal MedicineUHNBC1 block
Family MedicineUHNBC1 block
PediatricsUHNBC1 block
NeurologyUHNBC1 block
Emergency MedicineUHNBC1 block
AddictionsUHNBC1 block
Emergency PsychiatryUHNBC1 block

PGY-2

Adult Inpatient PsychiatryUHNBC6 months
Adult Outpatient PsychiatryUHNBC6 months

PGY-3

Child & Adolescent PsychiatryUHNBC6 months
Geriatric PsychiatryUHNBC6 months

PGY-4

Chronic Care PsychiatryUHNBC6 months
Consultation-Liaison PsychiatryUHNBC3 months
Addiction PsychiatryUHNBC6 weeks
Emergency PsychiatryUHNBC6 weeks

PGY-5

SelectivesVarious6 months
ElectivesVarious6 months

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

Diversity of Experience
Academic Track Record
Motivation to Become a Psychiatrist
Interpersonal Skills
Professionalism
Problem-Solving Ability
Research Potential

Applications per year

51–200

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 20, 27 and 28 Jan 2026

Programs can change interview dates. Confirm on carms.ca.

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 2 Sep 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Salaries from April 2027.

Annual salary by PGY level, British Columbia
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$71,390 / year
PGY-2	$79,571 / year
PGY-3	$86,655 / year
PGY-4	$93,230 / year
PGY-5	$100,215 / year

One provincial scale for British Columbia, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 levels this program covers.

Benefits

Benefits as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024; check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual vacation: 4 weeks
CMPA dues paid: Yes. Mandatory
Dental plan: 100% Premiums Paid
Educational leave: Yes
Extended health insurance: 100% Premiums Paid
Frequency of calls: 1 in 4 onsite/1 in 3 offsite
Life insurance: 100% Premium Paid
Long-term disability insurance: Yes 100% Premiums Paid
Maternity leave: 17 weeks, plus up to 78 weeks Parental Leave
Meal allowance: No
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1.5%
Provincial health insurance: 100% Premiums Paid
Sick leave: Yes
Statutory holidays: 2 x pay plus extra day with pay

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 in 4 in-house

The union agreement’s cap for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. Check with the program.

RDBC agreement, 1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2029.

Teaching sites

University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC)
Central Interior Native Health Society
Nechako Youth Treatment Program

Hospital facts

Public figures for hospitals named above, each with its source and reference period. They describe the hospital, not the program, and are not a ranking. We match names to the province’s lists by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC)

Matched to University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (Prince George) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 4,520 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 1,127 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 4 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 0 of 9 years.

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: Prince George.

Positions at this site, all streams, still open after round 1 and after round 2, by year. Each count above zero links to the CaRMS list page it comes from.
Year	Open after round 1	Open after round 2
2018	not available	0
2019	0	0
2020	0	0
2021	0	0
2022	0	0
2023	2 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2024	1 position open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2025	2 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2026	1 position open after round 1 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0

CaRMS’s first-round list for 2018 was not found, so round 1 is counted over 8 years and round 2 over 9.

A position can go unfilled because of where the site is, because it is open to IMGs only or to another restricted stream, or because the quota changed late. It says nothing about the quality of the training. Verify with the CaRMS lists. Source: CaRMS’s lists of positions open after round 1 and after round 2, as read in October 2026 (latest: 2026 round 1 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab), 2026 round 2 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab)). A site’s numbers are shown when it had positions open after round 1 in at least 2 of 8 years or at least 3 in one year.

Contacts

Contacts weren't collected for the 2026 match.

The current program director and contacts are on the 2027 version of this program and on the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab).

Location

Prince George, British Columbia

About the city

Public statistics for the place named by this program’s location label, each with its source and reference period. They describe the place, not the program, and are not a ranking. Check each source before you rely on it.

Climate

Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020. Each value comes from the nearest weather station that reports it, not from the city itself.

January average: −7.8 °C Prince George, 7.1 km away
July average: 15.9 °C Prince George, 7.1 km away
Snowfall: 203.9 cm a year Prince George, 7.1 km away
Days below −20 °C: 16.7 days a year Prince George, 7.1 km away

People

2021 Census. Figures are for the municipality of Prince George, not the metropolitan area. Statistics Canada rounds counts, so small places are approximate.

Population: 76,708 people up 3.7% from 2016
Official languages: English only 94.4% · French only 0.0% · English and French 5.0% · neither 0.5% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 10.3% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 1.9% · non-permanent residents: 2.3%
Indigenous identity: 15.3% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 90.2% · public transit 3.2% · walking or cycling 4.7% · other 1.9% Average commute: 16.9 minutes. Shares are of people who commute.The way Canadians commute was altered in 2021 by the pandemic, with lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19 and changes in how and where Canadians worked leading to 2.8 million fewer commuters, compared with five years earlier. Statistics Canada, The Daily, 30 Nov 2022(opens in a new tab)
Median household income: $88,000 before tax $77,500 after tax · income year 2020, in 2020 dollars

Rural and remote

This describes the place named by the program’s location label. Programs can train in several towns, so it is not every site.

Population centre: Prince George, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 67,339 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.317 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.
BC rural designation: RSA community designation B · 18.00 total points Official page(opens in a new tab)BC Ministry of Health, Rural Retention Program (RRP) 2026/27, effective 2026-04-01; checked 9 Oct 2026

Housing, cost and work

Each figure names the area it covers. A missing line means the source publishes nothing for this area.

Rental vacancy rate: 4.3% October 2025 survey, Prince George, British Columbia (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $54,086 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, British Columbia, population 30,000 to 99,999, for two adults with two children. A modest, basic basket (the poverty line), not a resident’s budget. A size-class region is not the town itself.

Job outlook

Employment and Social Development Canada’s rating for the occupation in the economic region. It is not a count of jobs, and says nothing about CaRMS positions or your match.

Outlook, 2025–2027: Moderate The employment outlook will be Moderate for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine (NOC 31100) in the Cariboo region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033: Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine, 2024–2033. Recent conditions, 2021–2023: Strong signs of Shortage.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
Adapted from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey, October 2025 (vacancy rates), and Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0131-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Statistics Canada of this product.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), 2024 to 2033 projections).
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, 3-Year Employment Outlooks).
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Index of Remoteness (17-26-0001), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0066-01 Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for the reference family by Market Basket Measure region, component and base year, 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0011-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Source: BC Ministry of Health, Rural Practice Subsidiary Agreement Community Designation & Rural Retention Program Point List, 2026/27 (effective April 1, 2026).
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0002-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0057-01 Household income statistics by household type: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0173-01 Mother tongue by knowledge of official languages: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0266-01 Indigenous identity by Registered or Treaty Indian status: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0307-01 Immigrant status and period of immigration by place of birth: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0458-01 Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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 5 Oct 2026.