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Kingston - Family Medicine - Palliative Care

Queen’s UniversityKingston, OntarioCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
76–100%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

2 dates, 9–10 Nov 2026virtual

Kingston, 5 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

Also at Queen’s, applied for at the school: Category 1 programs (Family Practice Anesthesia, Care of the Elderly, Emergency Medicine, Palliative Care): practising-physician / re-entry route, on Queen’s’s page of programs applied for at the school · practising physicians · no dates published (as of 10 Oct 2026)

Not through CaRMS: you apply to Queen’s, on its own dates. Confirm on the school’s page before you apply.

What stands out about this program

  • Year-long resident-led clinic one full day twice a month at the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Residents can act as Junior Attending to ease transition to independent practice.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Residents attend, then teach at, the biannual 4-day CME course for family physicians in palliative care.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • This 1-year enhanced skills program in palliative care leads to a CFPC Certificate of Added Competency.
  • Most training occurs at Kingston General Hospital, with further training at Providence Care Hospital's palliative care unit and hospice.
  • The 13 blocks include inpatient, PCU/hospice, community, oncology and three elective blocks, plus a biweekly resident-led clinic at the cancer centre.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • Longitudinal / integrated
  • Small program
Research
Offered · research or quality-improvement project · protected time

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • inpatient care (4 blocks · KGH)
  • PCU/Hospice (3 blocks)
  • Community (2 blocks)
  • elective (3 blocks)
  • combined block in medical and radiation oncology (1 block (2 weeks each))

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

Where you train

Kingston, Ontario: 5 teaching sites.

  • Kingston General Hospital (KGH)
  • Providence Care Hospital (PCH)
  • Providence Hospice
  • Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH)
  • Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario (CCSEO)

Record systems at the listed sites: Lumeo at 2 of 5; no published record for 3.

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
Lumeo regional health information system, fully electronic record since Dec 2024 As of 31 Oct 2026. At Kingston General Hospital (KGH), Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH).

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 Kingston

  • People

    132,485residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Kingston

  • Housing

    2.4%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Kingston, Ontario (census metropolitan area)

  • Winter and summer

    −7.0 °CJanuary mean20.8 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Kingston, 5.5 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Kingston (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
Return of service
Required · IMGs only
IMG requirements
  • “MCCQE Part I required for IMG applicants”

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
9 and 10 Nov 2026
Format
Virtual
  • 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 (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
Program office

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.

Queen's Division of Palliative Medicine(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Palliative Care elsewhere

Nearest to Kingston

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · FM/ES 2027 match · last approved 28 Jul 2026.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34560 · 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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