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Saint John - Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine

Dalhousie UniversitySaint John, New BrunswickCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 9 Oct 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota)
2 positions
Length
3 years
Stream
CMG
Discipline
Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine
Applications per year
401–600
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%
Accreditation
Accredited
CaRMS program ID
29190

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

Summary

The Dalhousie Family Medicine Integrated Emergency Medicine (iFMEM) program in Saint John offers a unique three-year training experience that combines comprehensive family medicine with emergency medicine skills. Residents will train in both urban and rural settings, developing expertise in comprehensive patient care and community leadership in emergency care.

Training

Research
Residents are required to complete a scholarly project with protected time for research activities.
Training setting
Training occurs in Saint John and Miramichi, New Brunswick, with a mix of urban tertiary care hospital and rural community healthcare settings. Residents work in the Saint John Regional Hospital and community practices.
Teaching approach
Competency-based medical education with a focus on progressive independence, self-directed learning, and integration of family medicine and emergency medicine skills across three years of training.
Setting types
  • Academic medical center
  • Community hospital
  • Rural clinic
  • Tertiary care center
Focus areas
  • Family Medicine
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Rural Medicine
  • Comprehensive Patient Care
  • Community Healthcare
Patient populations
  • Family medicine patients
  • Emergency department patients
  • Rural community patients
  • Inpatient care patients
  • Pediatric patients
  • Geriatric patients
  • Obstetric patients
Highlights
  • Integrated three-year program
  • Longitudinal learning model
  • Rural and urban training sites
  • Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) training
  • Mandatory Family Medicine Resident Education Symposium
  • Scholarly project requirement
  • Advanced certification courses (ATLS, ALARM, ACLS, NRP)
Strengths
  • Comprehensive training in family and emergency medicine
  • Strong rural medicine experience
  • Longitudinal patient care model
  • Diverse clinical exposure
  • Supportive learning environment
Enhanced skills
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Point of Care Ultrasound
  • Rural Medicine
  • Procedural Skills

By year

PGY-1
  • Community Family MedicineCore experience in the community of Miramichi. Residents will do comprehensive family medicine including office visits, inpatient care, and family medicine call, as well as shifts in the Miramichi Regional Hospital Emergency Department.10 weeks
  • Core Family MedicineCore experience in office-based family medicine in Saint John. Includes scheduled time to complete shifts in the Saint John Regional Hospital Emergency Department (1x/week), in-patient care, and family medicine call, along with weekly core family medicine curriculum sessions.8 weeks
  • Intro to Family MedicineFor their first block, residents have a series of introductory sessions as well as core curriculum sessions and simulation sessions for two days a week. For the remaining three days a week, residents work with their core family medicine preceptor.4 weeks
  • Intro to Emergency MedicineCore experience at the Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) Emergency Department; combination of day, evening and night shifts, as well as weekly learner simulation sessions. Additionally, there are weekly curriculum sessions introducing emergency care; many sessions are with interprofessional colleagues.4 weeks
  • General MedicineSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including Internal Medicine Teaching Unit in-hospital care, as well as consultation services to emergency department.4 weeks
  • Obstetrics/GynecologySpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including Labour & Birth Unit at SJRH, operating room, wards, gynecology clinic, and emergency consults at SJRH ED.4 weeks
  • Geriatric MedicineSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital. Includes inpatient geriatrics consultation service, inpatient geriatrics assessment care, and outpatient clinics.4 weeks
  • Palliative CareSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including in-patient care on the Palliative Care Unit, in-hospital consultation service, Hospice care, home consultations and emergency consultation service.4 weeks
  • OrthopaedicsSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including clinics at SJRH, operating room, wards, and consultation services to the emergency department at SJRH.4 weeks
  • PediatricsSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including clinics, in-patient care and emergency consults at SJRH ED.4 weeks
  • VacationScheduled at residents' request4 weeks
  • AnaesthesiaIncluding operating room experience and on-call services; this rotation takes place in Frederiction.2 weeks
PGY-2
  • Core Family MedicineCore experience in office-based family medicine in Saint John, including shifts in the Saint John Regional Hospital Emergency Department, inpatient care, and family medicine call, as well as weekly core family medicine curriculum.16 weeks
  • Community Family MedicineCore experience in the community of Miramichi. Residents will do comprehensive family medicine including office visits, inpatient care, and family medicine call, as well as shifts in the Miramichi Regional Hospital Emergency Department.12 weeks
  • Reproductive HealthFamily medicine clinic-based rotation including Family Medicine Prenatal Clinic, Women’s Health & Pap Clinic, gender affirming care, sexual health, care of the assaulted patient, as well as on-call experience in the Labour & Birth Unit and emergency consults at SJRH ED.4 weeks
  • General MedicineSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including Internal Medicine Teaching Unit in-hospital care, as well as consultation services to wards and emergency department.4 weeks
  • Pediatric Emergency MedicinePediatric emergency medicine at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.4 weeks
  • Emergency MedicineCore experience at the Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) Emergency Department; combination of day, evening and night shifts, as well as weekly learner simulation sessions.4 weeks
  • Elective(s)4 weeks
  • VacationScheduled at residents' request4 weeks
  • SurgerySpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including operating room, wards, consultation services to the SJRH ED, and clinics (including minor procedures, breast evaluation, proctology).2 weeks
  • Surgical ClinicsSpecialty surgical clinics in plastic surgery and orthopedics, including urgent follow up from the emergency department. With hands on skills in office procedures and casting.2 weeks
PGY-3
  • Emergency MedicineCore experience at the Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) Emergency Department; combination of day, evening and night shifts, as well as weekly learner simulation sessions. Includes ten half days of intensive emergency procedural skills & critical care simulation.16 weeks
  • Core Family MedicineCore experience in office-based family medicine in Saint John, including shifts in the Saint John Regional Hospital Emergency Department, inpatient care, and family medicine call.8 weeks
  • Community Family MedicineCore experience in the community of Miramichi. Residents will do comprehensive family medicine including office visits, inpatient care, and family medicine call, as well as shifts in the Miramichi Regional Hospital Emergency Department. Residents will do approximately two days per week in family medicine and three shifts per week in the emergency department.8 weeks
  • Intensive Care UnitSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including inpatient critical care medicine and emergency department consultation service.4 weeks
  • Cardiac Care UnitSpecialty rotation in cardiology inpatient care and Cardiac Care Unit (CCU). Includes in-patient care, clinics, code team, and emergency consultation service.4 weeks
  • Critical Care SelectiveResidents may choose between an additional experience in Intensive Care Unit or Cardiac Care Unit.4 weeks
  • Trauma SelectiveIncluding inpatient CCU rounds, emergency and inpatient consultation services4 weeks
  • Selective(s)Will be targeted as a trauma rotation away via sites such as St. Mike’s or Sunnybrook in Toronto (location TBD) with focus on TTL experience and trauma related procedural skills4 weeks
  • VacationScheduled at residents' request4 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at
  • CV
  • Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
  • Reference letters
  • Personal letter
  • FMProC assessment
  • Interview performance
Applications per year
401–600
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match)
13, 24 and 27 Nov 2025; 10 and 26 Jan 2026; 6 Feb 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 24 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$78,578 / year
PGY-2
$83,904 / year
PGY-3
$89,462 / year

One provincial scale for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 3 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
Call stipend
Yes
CMPA dues paid
Yes
Dental coverage
Yes
Educational leave
Yes
Extended health insurance
Yes
Frequency of call
l in 4 in-hospital and for homecall
Life insurance
$100,000 of insurance
Long-term disabilityinsurance
66.7% of salary
Maternity leave top up after one year’s service
eligible for up to a maximum of 17 weeks top-up allowance for maternity/pregnancy leave
Provincial dues (% of salary)
1.30%
Provincial health insurance
Yes
Sick leave
Yes
Statutory and floating holidays
paid

Call

Call (provincial max)
1 night 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.

MarDocs agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

  • Saint John Regional Hospital
  • Miramichi Regional Hospital
  • Sussex Health Centre

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.

Saint John Regional Hospital

Matched to Saint John Regional Hospital / Hôpital Régional de Saint John (Saint John) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds
445 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

Miramichi Regional Hospital

Matched to Miramichi Regional Hospital / Hôpital Régional de Miramichi (Miramichi) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds
150 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

Sussex Health Centre

Matched to Sussex Health Centre / Centre de Santé de Sussex (Sussex) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds
25 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – New Brunswick.

Unfilled positions in past years

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

Positions at this site, all streams.

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

Location

Saint John, New Brunswick

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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
−7.9 °C Saint John, 15.5 km away
July average
17.3 °C Saint John, 15.5 km away
Snowfall
214.8 cm a year Saint John, 15.5 km away
Days below −20 °C
13.1 days a year Saint John, 15.5 km away

People

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

Population
69,895 people up 3.4% from 2016
Official languages
English only 85.6% · French only 0.2% · English and French 13.6% · neither 0.6% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants
8.1% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 3.7% · non-permanent residents: 2.4%
Indigenous identity
2.8% of residents
How people commute
car, truck or van 85.6% · public transit 4.8% · walking or cycling 7.4% · other 2.3% Average commute: 15.3 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
$62,800 before tax $56,000 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
Saint John, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 63,447 people in 2021
Remoteness index
0.278 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.

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
2.1% October 2025 survey, Saint John, New Brunswick (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living
$51,631 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Saint John, New Brunswick, 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.
Unemployment rate
5.6% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Saint John, New Brunswick (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.8 points. A survey estimate.

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 34-10-0130-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
  • 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 14-10-0459-01 Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted, reference month 2026-09. 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.
  • 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.

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