Timmins - Family Medicine

NOSM UniversityTimmins, OntarioCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 20 Oct 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 3 positions
Length: 2 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 201–400
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 30354

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

Summary

The NOSM University Family Medicine Residency Program in Timmins offers a comprehensive two-year training experience focused on community-based family medicine. Located in Northeastern Ontario, the program provides hands-on learning across diverse clinical settings, preparing residents to become full-scope, competent family physicians with a strong emphasis on rural and northern healthcare.

Training

Research

Residents can participate in scholarly activities including research and quality improvement projects, with dedicated support and mentorship.

Training setting

Training occurs in Timmins, a centrally located city in Northeastern Ontario, with a 159-bed hospital and diverse patient population including Francophone, Anglophone, and Indigenous communities.

Teaching approach

Follows the Triple C competency-based curriculum using CanMEDS-FM competencies, with a focus on comprehensive practice, continuity of care, and community-based learning.

Setting types

Community hospital
Rural medical center
Primary care clinics

Focus areas

Rural Medicine
Community-Based Family Medicine
Indigenous Healthcare
Francophone Healthcare
Comprehensive Primary Care

Patient populations

Francophone patients
Anglophone patients
Indigenous patients
Rural and remote populations
Diverse ethnic and cultural groups

Highlights

Distributed medical education model
Competency-based curriculum
Virtual and in-person academic sessions
Wellness program support
Financial support for conferences and professional development
Scholarly activity opportunities
Housing and travel support for rotations

Strengths

Comprehensive training across multiple clinical domains
Strong focus on northern and rural medicine
Extensive rotation opportunities
Culturally responsive medical education
Hands-on, first-line clinical experiences

Enhanced skills

Rural medicine
Indigenous healthcare
Procedural skills
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)

By year

PGY-1

Family Medicine16 weeks
Family Medicine Rural/Rural OB8 weeks
Electives8 weeks
Internal Medicine/Hospitalist4 weeks
Emergency Medicine4 weeks
Pediatrics4 weeks
Obstetrics/Women's Health2 weeks
Mental Health2 weeks
Addictions Medicine2 weeks
Geriatrics2 weeks

PGY-2

Family Medicine12 weeks
Electives12 weeks
Family Medicine Rural/Rural OB8 weeks
Internal Medicine/Hospitalist4 weeks
Emergency Medicine4 weeks
Obstetrics/Women's Health2 weeks
Mental Health2 weeks
Pediatrics2 weeks
Addictions Medicine2 weeks
Urology1 week
General Surgery1 week
Orthopedics1 week
Otorhinolaryngology1 week

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

FMProC (Family Medicine Professional Choices) situational judgement test
Personal letter
Reference letters
Academic performance
Interview performance

Applications per year

201–400

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 22, 23 and 24 Jan 2026; 1 and 8 Feb 2026

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

One provincial scale for Ontario, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 2 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

Timmins and District Hospital

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 5 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 2 of 9 years.

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: Timmins.

Positions at this site, all streams, still open after round 1 and after round 2, by year. Each count above zero links to the CaRMS list page it comes from.
Year	Open after round 1	Open after round 2
2018	not available	0
2019	0	0
2020	2 positions open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	2 positions open after round 2 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
2021	1 position open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2022	2 positions open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	2 positions open after round 2 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
2023	3 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2024	1 position open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2025	0	0
2026	0	0

CaRMS’s first-round list for 2018 was not found, so round 1 is counted over 8 years and round 2 over 9.

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

Contacts weren't collected for the 2026 match.

The current program director and contacts are on the 2027 version of this program and on the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab).

Location

Timmins, 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: −16.4 °C Timmins/Victor Power, 9.2 km away
July average: 17.7 °C Timmins/Victor Power, 9.2 km away
Snowfall: 307.6 cm a year Timmins/Victor Power, 9.2 km away
Days below −20 °C: 56.1 days a year Timmins/Victor Power, 9.2 km away

People

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

Population: 41,145 people down 1.5% from 2016
Official languages: English only 49.4% · French only 1.5% · English and French 48.9% · neither 0.1% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 3.4% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 0.6% · non-permanent residents: 1.6%
Indigenous identity: 14.9% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 86.8% · public transit 4.2% · walking or cycling 6.6% · other 2.3% Average commute: 18.9 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: $82,000 before tax $72,000 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: Timmins, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people) 28,874 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.360 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.
Student loan forgiveness: Family medicine here may qualify for up to $60,000 of Canada Student Loan forgiveness. Eligibility depends on the postal code of where you work: check the official postal-code lookup. Postal-code lookup(opens in a new tab)

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: 3.7% October 2025 survey, Timmins, Ontario (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $51,047 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Ontario, population 30,000 to 99,999, 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.

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: Very good The employment outlook will be Very good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the Northeast region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033: Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for general practitioners and family physicians, 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 34-10-0132-01. 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.
Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, Canada Student Loan Forgiveness (Canada.ca), page dated 2026-06-03.
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.

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 5 Oct 2026.