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St. John's - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine

Memorial University of NewfoundlandSt. John's, Newfoundland and LabradorCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

CaRMS program description, FM/ES 2027 match, last approved 14 Jul 2026

Positions (approx. quota)
6 positions
Length
1 year
Stream
Competitive
Discipline
Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine
Applications per year
51–200
Applicants offered interviews
26–50%
Accreditation
Accredited
CaRMS program ID
34654

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

Summary

  • This 1-year emergency medicine enhanced skills program trains residents mainly in the emergency departments of the Health Sciences Centre and St. Clare's Mercy Hospital in St. John's.
  • Training includes a longitudinal point-of-care ultrasound curriculum and a required self-directed scholarly activity presented at year end.

Training

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
  • Rural / remote
Sites

6 teaching sites

  • Health Sciences Centre
  • St. Clare's Mercy Hospital
  • Janeway Children's Hospital
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  • Central Newfoundland Regional Health Centre
  • Labrador Health Centre
  • Burin Peninsula Health Center
Rural exposure
Required rural rotation (4 weeks)
Focus areas
  • POCUS curriculum
  • Early independence
  • Procedural emphasis
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project
Highlights
  • No local RCPSC emergency medicine program, so residents take senior ED roles without competition for procedures.
  • Community anesthesia rotation in Grand Falls-Windsor where residents often log 50 to 100 intubations.
  • Advanced PoCUS workshops taught by fellowship-trained faculty, plus monthly longitudinal scanning sessions.

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Adult Emergency Medicine (20 weeks · Health Sciences Centre/St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital)
  • Emergency Medicine (rural site) (4 weeks · Grand Falls-Windsor, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, or Burin)
  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine (4 weeks · Janeway Children's Hospital)
  • Critical Care (8 weeks · Health Sciences Centre)
  • Coronary Care (4 weeks · Health Sciences Centre)
  • Anesthesia (4 weeks · Grand Falls-Windsor)
  • Plastic Surgery (4 weeks · Health Sciences Centre)
  • Elective (4 weeks · To be determined by resident)

Selection

Application file components
  • CV
  • Electives
  • Examinations
  • Extra-curricular
  • Leadership skills
  • MSPRs
  • Personal letters
  • Reference documents
  • Research/Publications
  • Transcripts
  • Other file component(s)
Return of service
Not required
Applications per year
51–200
Applicants offered interviews
26–50%

Interviews

Dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
26 and 27 Nov 2026
Mode
Virtual
Format
  • Panel

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Contract expired, may change.

Annual salary by PGY level, Newfoundland and Labrador
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$79,848 / year

One provincial scale for Newfoundland and Labrador, 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.

Benefits

Benefits as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024; check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Additional optional benefits
100% employee paid
Annual vacation
4 weeks/year
CMPA dues
100% reimbursement
Conference leave
7 days/pd
Extended health insurance
Mandatory medical, basic life and AD&Dhttp://www.exec.gov.nl.ca/exec/hrs/working_with_us/employee_benefits.html
Frequency of call
Excess in-hospital call > 7/28 weekday – $225, weekend – $360;Call stipend – $115 Home call > 7/21 – $75;Call stipend – $57.50
Maternity/Paternity leave
Up to One year
Meal allowance
$105 per month
Parking fees
$5/year
Provincial health insurance
Contact Medical Care Plan1-866-449-4459
Resident Student
Full-time status
Sick leave
1 day per month
Statutory holidays
1-1/2 x pay or paid day off

Call

Call (provincial max)
1 day in 4 in-house, on average

The union agreement’s cap for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. Check with the program.

PARNL agreement, 10 Aug 2022 to 30 Jun 2024. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed.

Teaching sites

  • Health Sciences Centre (St. John's)
  • St. Clare's Mercy Hospital (St. John's)
  • Janeway Children's Hospital (St. John's)
  • Central Newfoundland Regional Health Centre (Grand Falls-Windsor · rural or distributed site)
  • Labrador Health Centre (Happy Valley-Goose Bay · rural or distributed site)
  • Burin Peninsula Health Center (Burin · rural or distributed site)

Hospital facts

Hospital size and activity: Newfoundland and Labrador doesn't publish this as open data.

Contacts

Grouped by the titles CaRMS lists. The program office (administrators and coordinators) usually answers questions about the program and applying; the director leads the training.

Program officeadministrators and coordinators

enhancedskills@mun.ca

Ms. Elizabeth Gauci · Academic Program Administrator

Program directors

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

Location

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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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
−3.6 °C St. John's (West), 4.3 km away
July average
16.5 °C St. John's (West), 4.3 km away
Snowfall
363.4 cm a year St. John's (Airport), 9.0 km away
Days below −20 °C
0.3 days a year St. John's (West), 4.3 km away

People

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

Population
110,525 people up 1.5% from 2016
Official languages
English only 90.3% · French only 0.0% · English and French 9.2% · neither 0.5% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants
7.0% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 2.5% · non-permanent residents: 3.8%
Indigenous identity
3.3% of residents
How people commute
car, truck or van 84.4% · public transit 5.4% · walking or cycling 7.2% · other 3.0% Average commute: 15.4 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
$75,000 before tax $65,000 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
St. John's, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 185,565 people in 2021
Remoteness index
0.247 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, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living
$53,849 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, 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
6.6% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.6 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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