Thunder Bay - Emergency Medicine

NOSM UniversityThunder Bay, OntarioCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 16 Sep 2026 · See the 2026 version

2027 match programs, from CaRMS as of 5 Oct 2026. Programs can still change until file review opens 26 November; we re-check every two weeks. Always confirm on CaRMS (opens in a new tab).

Positions (approx. quota): 2 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Emergency Medicine
Applications per year: 0–50
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 36027

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

Summary

NOSM University's five-year Royal College Emergency Medicine program is a newer program based in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Most rotations are in Thunder Bay, with mandatory core rotations in northern Ontario communities, Sudbury, Winnipeg and London.
NOSM University financially supports housing and travel for core rotations, and Transition to Practice includes 6 blocks in an Area of Special Interest.

Training

Setting

Regional community
Academic / tertiary hospital

Sites

2 teaching sites

Western University
University of Manitoba

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Not stated on CaRMS page

Focus areas

Northern
POCUS curriculum

Research

Offered · research or quality-improvement project · protected time

Enhanced skills

Emergency Medicine

Getting around

Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
Travel is reimbursed

Highlights

Weekly academic days shared virtually with the University of Manitoba's EM program, plus required EM/Trauma rotation in Winnipeg.
Ultrasound curriculum designed so all residents reach Independent Practitioner status.
Required community emergency medicine rotations across northern Ontario communities such as Kenora and Timmins.

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

core Emergency Medicine (EM) (Transition to Discipline (TTD) · 3 blocks)
Emergency Medicine (Foundations of Discipline (FoD) · 2 blocks)
Pediatrics (Foundations of Discipline (FoD) · 2 blocks)
Internal Medicine (Foundations of Discipline (FoD) · 2 blocks)
Anesthesia (Foundations of Discipline (FoD) · 1 block)
Emergency Medicine (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 22 blocks · NOSM University teaching sites)
Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 2 blocks · Western University (London, ON))
Community Emergency Medicine (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 2 blocks · Kenora, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins)
EM/ Trauma (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 2 blocks · University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, AB))
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 3 blocks)
Selectives (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 2)
Longitudinal Toxicology exposure including course work (Core of Discipline (CoD))
Anesthesia (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block)
Cardiac Care Unit (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block · Sudbury, ON)
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block)
Elective (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block)
General Surgery (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block)
Obstetrics (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block)
Orthopedics (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block)
Plastic Surgery (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block)
Transport Medicine (Core of Discipline (CoD) · 1 block)
Emergency Medicine (Transition to Practice (TTP) · 6 blocks)
Community Emergency Medicine (Transition to Practice (TTP) · 1 block · Kenora, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins)
Area of Special Interest (ASI) (Transition to Practice (TTP) · 6 blocks)

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 stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Applications per year

0–50

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)

18 Jan 2027

Mode

Virtual

Format

Panel

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 6 Jan 2025 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Contract expired, may change.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
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

One provincial scale for Ontario, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 levels this program covers.

Call

Call (provincial max): 7 nights in 28 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.

PARO agreement, 1 Jul 2023 to 30 Jun 2026. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed.

Teaching sites

Western University (London)
University of Manitoba (Winnipeg)

Hospital facts

Hospital size and activity: Ontario 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

emergencymedicine@nosm.ca

Jennifer LeBlanc · Program Coordinator

Program director

Dr. Jonathan Smith
Program Director

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

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

Location

Thunder Bay, Ontario

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: −13.4 °C Thunder Bay, 6.3 km away
July average: 18.0 °C Thunder Bay, 6.3 km away
Snowfall: not reported No weather station within 100 km reports it
Days below −20 °C: 42.2 days a year Thunder Bay, 6.3 km away

People

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

Population: 108,843 people up 0.9% from 2016
Official languages: English only 91.5% · French only 0.1% · English and French 8.0% · neither 0.5% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 8.6% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 1.0% · non-permanent residents: 2.5%
Indigenous identity: 14.1% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 88.5% · public transit 3.8% · walking or cycling 5.9% · other 1.8% Average commute: 15.6 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: $77,500 before tax $69,000 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: Thunder Bay, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 95,266 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.295 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: 3.9% October 2025 survey, Thunder Bay, Ontario (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $54,744 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Ontario, population 100,000 to 499,999, 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: 4.3% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Thunder Bay, Ontario (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.6 points. A survey estimate.

Job outlook

Employment and Social Development Canada’s rating for the occupation in the economic region. It is not a count of jobs, and says nothing about CaRMS positions or your match.

Outlook, 2025–2027: Good The employment outlook will be Good for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine (NOC 31100) in the Northwest region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033: Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine, 2024–2033. Recent conditions, 2021–2023: Strong signs of Shortage.

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.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), 2024 to 2033 projections).
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, 3-Year Employment Outlooks).
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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