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Kingston - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Queen’s UniversityKingston, OntarioCMG stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
1 positionchanged: see what changed on the CaRMS page
Length
5 years
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
51–75%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Meet and greet

details info sessions of this program

Wed 11 Nov 2026,7:00–8:00 pm ESTvia CANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)

Interviews

2 dates, 20–21 Jan 2027virtual

Kingston, 7 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

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

  • EMG training sufficient to meet the six-month requirement for CSCN EMG certification by program completion.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Spiral curriculum: core rehab rotations completed twice, as junior and then senior resident.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Resident-run summer anatomy curriculum in the anatomy lab and museum.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Queen's PM&R is a five-year Kingston program matching one resident annually, based at Providence Care Hospital with off-service rotations at Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
  • Core rehabilitation rotations are done as junior rotations in Foundations and repeated as longer senior rotations in Core of Discipline.
  • Residents complete pediatric rehabilitation and prosthetics and orthotics blocks in Ottawa and a required scholarly project.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure
Optional rural rotation
Focus areas
  • Small program
  • Longitudinal / integrated
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • Rehab Basics (Transition to discipline+ · 2 blocks)
  • Internal Medicine (Foundations of Discipline · 4 blocks)
  • Geriatrics (Foundations of Discipline · 1 block)
  • Surgery (Foundations of Discipline · 2 blocks)
  • Selective (Foundations of Discipline · 2 blocks)
  • Acquired Brain Injury (Foundations of Discipline · 1 block)
  • Spinal Cord Injury (Foundations of Discipline · 1 block)
  • Stroke (Foundations of Discipline · 1 block)
  • Musculoskeletal (Foundations of Discipline · 2 blocks)
  • Neurology (Foundations of Discipline · 2 blocks)
  • Rheumatology (Foundations of Discipline · 1 block)
  • Orthopedic Surgery (Foundations of Discipline · 2 blocks)
  • Acquired Brain Injury (Core of Discipline · 3 blocks)
  • Spinal Cord Injury (Core of Discipline · 3 blocks)
  • Stroke (Core of Discipline · 3 blocks)
  • Musculoskeletal (Core of Discipline · 4 blocks)
  • EMG (Core of Discipline · 6 blocks)
  • Pediatric Rehab (Core of Discipline · 1 block · Ottawa)
  • Pediatric Rehab (Core of Discipline · 2 blocks · Kingston)
  • Cardiac and/or Respiratory Rehab (Core of Discipline · 1 block · Kingston, Ottawa, or Toronto)
  • Prosthetics and Orthotics (Core of Discipline · 1 block · Ottawa)
  • Consolidation (Core of Discipline · 4 blocks)
  • Research (Core of Discipline · 3 blocks)
  • Electives (Core of Discipline · 3 blocks)
  • Junior attending (Transition to practice)
  • Electives (Transition to practice)
  • Further EMG training (Transition to practice)
  • Community elective (Transition to practice)

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

Where you train

Kingston, Ontario: 7 teaching sites; optional rural rotation.

  • Providence Care Hospital
  • Kingston Health Sciences Centre (Hotel Dieu Hospital Site)
  • Kingston Health Sciences Centre (Kingston General Hospital Site)
  • Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) (Ottawa)
  • The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre (Ottawa)
  • University of Ottawa Heart Institute (Ottawa)
  • Toronto Rumsey Centre (Toronto)

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 3 of 7, Lumeo at 3; no published record for 1.

Hospital facts

6 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 Providence Care Hospital, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (Hotel Dieu Hospital Site), Kingston Health Sciences Centre (Kingston General Hospital Site).

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)

Clinical record
Epic, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre

Clinical record
Epic (Atlas Alliance shared system), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Clinical record
Epic (Atlas Alliance shared system), system named (how far it goes is not stated) 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 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

    Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

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
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)
20 and 21 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 5 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$73,367 / year
PGY-2
$79,670 / year
PGY-3
$85,564 / year
PGY-4
$92,701 / year
PGY-5
$98,567 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (as the program states it)
frequency “Monday through Thursday each week”
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.

Past matches

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

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 stream15 years2 dates, 20–21 Jan 2027Virtual
  • CaRMS page changed during the match: positions (noticed 13 Oct)

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG streamKingston - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation15 years2 dates, 20–21 Jan 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • Queen's University offers a comprehensive 5-year Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) residency program that provides graduated progression of responsibilities and a spiral curriculum.
  • The program focuses on comprehensive rehabilitation training, with unique features like EMG training and longitudinal academic coaching.
Research
Residents complete a scholarly project, with opportunities for graduate degrees through the Clinician Investigator Program and research collaborations.
Training setting
Training occurs at Providence Care Hospital, a modern 60-bed rehabilitation facility, and multiple sites in Kingston including Kingston Health Sciences Centre, with additional rotations in Ottawa and Toronto.
Teaching approach
Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) with a focus on graduated responsibility, spaced repetition, and progressive independence through a spiral curriculum.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
  • Medical school transcript
  • Personal letter
  • Reference letters
  • CV/Research activities
  • 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.

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

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation elsewhere

Nearest to Kingston

In these collections:

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 27 Aug 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 35518 · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

What changed, noticed 13 Oct: Quota published: 1. 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

    • Quota published: 1

      Approximate Quota: 1
      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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