Toronto - Neurology

University of TorontoToronto, OntarioIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 8 Oct 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 3 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Neurology
Applications per year: 51–200
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 29433

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

Summary

The University of Toronto Adult Neurology Residency Program seeks passionate neurologists who can contribute to the ongoing evolution of neurology through educational, quality improvement, and research endeavors. The program aims to train competent and compassionate clinical neurologists who serve diverse patient populations and advance the specialty through academic and clinical excellence.

Training

Research

Extensive research opportunities with dedicated Research Coordinator, funding support, and options for advanced research training through various programs like Clinician-Investigator Program and Clinician-Scientist Training Program.

Training setting

Urban academic medical centers across Toronto, including multiple teaching hospitals with diverse clinical environments ranging from academic tertiary care centers to community hospitals.

Teaching approach

Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, emphasizing comprehensive clinical training, scholarly inquiry, and development of all CanMEDS roles through structured rotations and ongoing assessment.

Setting types

Academic medical center
Tertiary care center
Community hospital

Focus areas

Adult Neurology
Clinical Neuroscience
Academic Neurology
Community Neurology
Research and Scholarly Activities

Patient populations

Diverse urban patient populations
Neurological patients across multiple subspecialties
Patients with complex neurological conditions
Patients from varied socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds

Highlights

Competence by Design (CBD) curriculum
Formal mentorship program
Annual program improvement retreat
Subspecialty Clinic rotations
PGY1 neurology clinic
Longitudinal general neurology clinic
NIRVE (Neurology International Residents Videoconference and Exchange)
Women in Neurology longitudinal program
Annual book-and-travel fund for residents
Opportunities for advanced degrees

Strengths

Large neurology faculty (95 full-time faculty)
Comprehensive subspecialty coverage
Strong commitment to research
Active resident involvement in program development
Diverse training environments
Robust continuous quality improvement processes

Enhanced skills

Clinician-Investigator Program
Clinician-Scientist Training Program
Medical Education Scholars Program
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Program

By year

PGY-1

CTU 1
CTU
CTU
CTU
Medicine of Neurology 2
IM CTU
IM CTU
IM CTU
IM CTU
Cardiology
Medicine Selective 3
Neurology Elective 4

PGY-2

CTU
CTU
CTU
CTU
Neuro-radiology
ICU
Neurosurgery
Neuro-psychiatry
Community Neurology
Neurology Subspecialty Clinics 5
Neurology Subspecialty Clinics
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective

PGY-3

CTU
CTU
CTU
CTU
CTU
CTU
CTU
CTU
Palliative Medicine
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective

PGY-4

CTU
CTU
CTU
Peds Neuro CTU
Peds Neuro CTU
Neurology Subspecialty Clinics 6
Neurology Subspecialty Clinics
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective

PGY-5

CTU
CTU
CTU
CTU
CTU
JA 7 Inpatient / Outpatient
JA Inpatient / Outpatient
Peds Neuro Outpatient
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective
Neurology Elective

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

MCCQE Part I
NAC examination
Medical school transcript
Medical Student Performance Record
Personal letter
Letters of reference
CV/Résumé

Applications per year

51–200

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 24 Jan 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
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.

Hospital facts

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

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

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

Toronto, 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: −3.5 °C Toronto (City), 11.0 km away
July average: 22.5 °C Toronto (City), 11.0 km away
Snowfall: 114.5 cm a year Toronto Pearson (Airport), 12.7 km away
Days below −20 °C: 1.6 days a year Toronto (City), 11.0 km away

People

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

Population: 2,794,356 people up 2.3% from 2016
Official languages: English only 86.9% · French only 0.1% · English and French 8.5% · neither 4.5% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 46.6% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 7.2% · non-permanent residents: 5.3%
Indigenous identity: 0.8% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 61.0% · public transit 26.2% · walking or cycling 9.6% · other 3.2% Average commute: 30.7 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: $84,000 before tax $74,000 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: Toronto, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 5,647,656 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.000 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: 3.0% October 2025 survey, Toronto, Ontario (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $62,880 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Toronto, Ontario, 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: 6.9% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Toronto, Ontario (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.3 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 Toronto 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.

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.