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Oshawa Lakeridge - Family Medicine

Queen’s UniversityOshawa Lakeridge, Ontario

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
10 positions+2 from 8 in the 2026 match changed: see what changed on the CaRMS page
Length
2 years
Applications per year
601+
Offered interviews
51–75%
0–25%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

IMG stream · open to international medical graduates

Return of service: Required

IMG requirements: Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program; Observerships don’t count as clinical experience details under How they choose

Info session

all 2 info sessions of this program

Wed 4 Nov 2026,time not stated

Interviews

2 dates, 21–25 Jan 2027virtual

1 date, 15 Jan 2027virtual

Oshawa Lakeridge, 6 teaching sites5 teaching sites · required rural rotation

After residency in Ontario: capitation model, entry capped

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

What stands out about this program

  • Nightmares FM simulation course for code and pre-code training, unique to Queen's.

    From “Additional information” on the CaRMS page

  • Optional rotations in Moose Factory and the Falkland Islands.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • This two-year Queen's family medicine site trains residents in Durham Region at Lakeridge Health hospitals and area clinics.
  • Emergency medicine starts at Bowmanville in PGY1 and moves to Oshawa and Ajax-Pickering in PGY2, which also includes 8 to 12 weeks of rural family medicine.
  • Residents complete a resident project and a first-year quality-improvement project.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Urban community
  • Rural / remote
Rural exposure
Required rural rotation
Focus areas
  • Rural / remote
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project
Enhanced skills
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Anesthesia
  • Global Health
  • Women's Health
  • Care of the Elderly
  • Indigenous Health
  • Rural Skills
  • Palliative Care
  • Other

By year

PGY-1
  • Tool-kitFirst block
  • Hospitalist/internal medicineFour weeks
  • ElectivesFour weeks
  • Family medicine on-call and urgent care clinics
  • OB call (24-hour shifts)
  • Emergency medicineLakeridge Health Bowmanville
  • Office procedures
  • Dermatology clinics
  • Psychiatry/behavioural medicine
  • Pediatrics
  • Long-term care
  • Palliative care
PGY-2
  • Rural community family medicineLindsay, Port Perry, or othersEight to 12 weeks
  • Family Medicine on-call and urgent care clinics
  • ERLakeridge Health Oshawa and Lakeridge Health Ajax-Pickering
PGY-1
  • “tool-kit” of important skills and trainingFirst block
  • hospitalist/internal medicineFour weeks
  • electivesFour weeks
  • Family medicine on-call and urgent care clinics
  • OB call (24-hour shifts)
  • Emergency medicineLakeridge Health Bowmanville
  • Office procedures
  • Dermatology clinics
  • Psychiatry/behavioural medicine
  • Pediatrics
  • Long-term care
  • Palliative care
PGY-2
  • rural community family medicineLindsay, Port Perry, or othersEight to 12 weeks
  • Family Medicine on-call and urgent care clinics
  • ERLakeridge Health Oshawa and Lakeridge Health Ajax-Pickering

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

Where you train

Oshawa Lakeridge, Ontario: 6 teaching sites5 teaching sites; required rural rotation.

  • Lakeridge Health Oshawa (Oshawa)
  • Lakeridge Health Bowmanville (Bowmanville)
  • Lakeridge Health Ajax-Pickering (Ajax)
  • Lakeridge Health Education and Research Network (LHEARN) Centre (Oshawa)
  • Lindsay (Lindsay · rural or distributed site)
  • Port Perry (Port Perry · rural or distributed site)
  • Lakeridge Health Oshawa (Oshawa)
  • Lakeridge Health Bowmanville (Bowmanville)
  • Lakeridge Health Ajax-Pickering (Ajax)
  • Lindsay (Lindsay · rural or distributed site)
  • Port Perry (Port Perry · rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 5 of 6; no published record for 1.

Hospital facts

5 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
Epic, fully electronic record since Dec 2021 As of 31 Oct 2026. At Lakeridge Health Oshawa, Lakeridge Health Bowmanville, Lakeridge Health Ajax-Pickering, Port Perry.

Lindsay

Clinical record
Epic, fully electronic record since Dec 2021 As of 31 Oct 2026

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 Oshawa

  • People

    175,383residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Oshawa

  • Housing

    3.6%rental vacancy rate

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

  • Winter and summer

    −5.0 °CJanuary mean20.9 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Oshawa, 1.8 km away

  • Job outlook

    Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Oshawa (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
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service
Required
IMG requirements
  • Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program
  • Observerships don’t count as clinical experience

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
21 and 25 Jan 2027
Interview dates (2027 match)
15 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.

Past matches

Open after round 1 in 1 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: Oshawa Lakeridge.

Show the table, with round 2
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.
YearOpen after round 1Open after round 2
2018not available0
201900
202000
202100
202200
202300
202400
20253 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
202600

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

What this means

  • 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 or how heavy the workload is.
  • 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.

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)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviewsWhat changed
CMG stream102 years2 dates, 21–25 Jan 2027Virtual
  • Positions 8 → 10 from the 2026 match
  • CaRMS page changed during the match: positions (noticed 13 Oct)
IMG stream12 years1 date, 15 Jan 2027Virtual
  • CaRMS page changed during the match: positions, requirements (noticed 13 Oct)

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream82 years3 dates, 20–22 Jan 2026
IMG stream12 years1 date, 16 Jan 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • Queen's University Family Medicine offers a comprehensive two-year residency program focused on training highly competent generalist family physicians.
  • Using the College of Family Physicians of Canada's 'Triple C' Curriculum, the program provides diverse training experiences across four sites in Southeastern Ontario, preparing residents to work anywhere in Canada.
Research
Residents complete a resident project, which can include critical review, advocacy project, research project, ethics project, or IT project, culminating in a presentation at the annual Primary Care Research Day.
Training setting
Training occurs across four sites in Southeastern Ontario (Kingston-1000 Islands, Belleville-Quinte, Peterborough-Kawartha, and Bowmanville-Oshawa-Lakeridge), providing diverse urban and rural clinical experiences.
Teaching approach
Competency-Based Medical Education using the 'Triple C' Curriculum, emphasizing comprehensive learning, continuity of patient care, and family medicine-centered education with progressive independence and individualized learning plans.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • FMProC score
  • Medical Student Performance Record
  • Personal letter
  • Reference letters
  • CV/Research
  • Electives
  • Leadership skills
  • Interview performance

Positions, length and interviews as each match’s CaRMS pages stated them; what changed from our comparison of the two matches and our readings of the 2027 pages.

Contacts and links

Program director

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 websiteWebsiteInstagramCANPREPPCANPREPPincludes a resident experience sectionFrom the programThis program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Videos and podcasts

From the program

Public podcast episodes and videos where the program presents itself. The short descriptions are ours; each link goes to the original.

These are public recordings, reviewed by hand and linked here, not endorsed. They may be out of date. Confirm with the program.

All videos, podcasts and discussions →

Family Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Oshawa Lakeridge

In these collections:

Source

The CMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 21 Aug 2026 · The IMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 9 Oct 2026 · 2027 match · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 35396 (CMG stream), 35280 (IMG stream) · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

What changed, noticed 13 Oct: CMG stream: Quota published: 10 and 3 more. 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

    • CMG stream: Quota published: 10

      Approximate Quota: 10
      From the CaRMS page, read 13 Oct

    • IMG stream: Quota published: 1

      Approximate Quota: 1
      From the CaRMS page, read 13 Oct

    • IMG stream: Reference documents: wording changed

      … CaRMS will be the only form of reference letters accepted. The Family Medicine Structured Reference Letter has been updated for the 2027 R-1 match. As a result, all previous versions are invalid and have been removed from applicant accounts. Applicants …
      From the CaRMS page, read 13 Oct

    • IMG stream: Selection criteria: wording changed

      … CaRMS will be the only form of reference letters accepted. The Family Medicine Structured Reference Letter has been updated for the 2027 R-1 match. As a result, all previous versions are invalid and have been removed from applicant accounts. Applicants …
      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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