Kingston - Public Health and Preventive Medicine including Family Medicine
Queen’s UniversityKingston, OntarioCMG stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 2
- Length
- 5
- Applications per year
- 0–50
- Offered interviews
- 51–75%
CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates
Interviews
Not stated on CaRMS page
Kingston, 4 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Residents choose either one year of basic clinical training or two full family medicine years leading to CCFP.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Annual PHPM boot camp for on-call training.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
- This is a 5-year Public Health and Preventive Medicine program whose first one or two years are completed in the Queen's Department of Family Medicine, Kingston-1000 Islands site.
- PGY3 is an academic year of PHPM course work, often toward an MPH or MSc in Epidemiology.
- PGY4 and PGY5 include 18 months of core public health placements and about 6 months of electives.
Based on what the program says about itself.
- You’re open to training at sites across a region, not at one hospital.
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What training looks like
- Setting
- Mixed settings
- Public health agency
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Research
- Required
- Getting around
- Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
- Travel is reimbursed
By year
- PGY-1
- core introductory public healthone mandatory block
Other rotations
- infectious disease rotation
- rotation in local public health
- communicable disease (PGY4 & 5)
- environmental health (PGY4 & 5)
- policy and planning (PGY4 & 5)
- health promotion and chronic disease prevention (PGY4 & 5)
- management and administration (PGY4 & 5)
- elective time (PGY4 & 5 · 6 months)
Where you train
Kingston, Ontario: 4 teaching sites.
- Queen’s Department of Family Medicine (Kingston-1000 Islands site)
- Southeast Public Health
- Lakelands Public Health
- Public Health Ontario
Distributed across a region
Record systems at the listed sites: no published record for 4 of 4.
Hospital facts
Hospital size and activity: Ontario doesn't publish this as open data.
About Kingston
People
132,485residents, 2021 Census
Housing
2.4%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
−7.0 °CJanuary mean20.8 °CJuly mean
Job outlook
not published for this specialty
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.
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (2027 match)
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Format
- Virtual
- Panel
Info sessions
The 1 session listed for 2027 has passed.
3 Public Health and Preventive Medicine including Family Medicine info sessions at other programsAll info sessions
Pay and call
| Level | Annual 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 |
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)
Past matches
Open after round 1 in 4 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 0 of 9 years.
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| Year | Open after round 1 | Open after round 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | not available | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 position open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab) | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 position open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab) | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 positions open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab) | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 position open after round 1 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab) | 0 |
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.
Year by year
2027 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMG stream | 2 | 5 years |
|
2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMG stream | 2 | 5 years | Interviews not stated |
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
- Queen's University offers a comprehensive 5-year Public Health and Preventive Medicine (PHPM) residency program that trains innovative public health physicians.
- The program provides flexible training across clinical and academic years, with opportunities for master's degree completion and diverse public health experiences.
- Research
- Residents can complete thesis or practicum during academic year, with encouragement to select applied research topics.
- Training setting
- Training occurs across multiple public health sites in Ontario, including local health units, provincial agencies, and potential national organizations, with a primary base in Kingston.
- Teaching approach
- Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, emphasizing individual learning plans, scholarly development, and practical public health experience.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- CV/Work history
- Elective experiences
- Leadership skills
- Communication abilities
- Research/scholarly activities
- Personal letter
- Reference letters
- Interview performance
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr. Sam Buttermer
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
- Program office
Program Assistant, DFM CaRMS Team
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.
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