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Vancouver - Anesthesiology

University of British ColumbiaVancouver, British ColumbiaCMG stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
16 positions−4 from 20 in the 2026 match
Length
5 years
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
26–50%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Info session

details info sessions of this program

Mon 2 Nov 2026,5:30–6:30 pm PSTvia CANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)

Interviews

3 dates, 2–4 Feb 2027virtual

Vancouver, 16 teaching sites

Program website(opens in a new tab)Instagram(opens in a new tab)CANPREPP profile(opens in a new tab)CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Roughly 250 faculty members support resident education across British Columbia.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Up to six blocks of training may be completed outside the program, including international electives.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a five-year anesthesiology residency in UBC's province-wide program, with a metropolitan Vancouver clinical home.
  • PGY-1 is a rotating internship at St. Paul's, Royal Columbian, or the Victoria hospitals, and PGY-2 is an anesthesia immersion year.
  • Residents must complete a 4-week block in Victoria and another outside the Lower Mainland, with travel and accommodation supported.
  • All residents are expected to complete scholarly work and present at UBC Anesthesiology Research Day.

The summary is written by CdnMD from the program’s CaRMS description.

Based on what the program says about itself.

  • You’re open to training at sites across a region, not at one hospital.
    Show the quote

    UBC Anesthesiology is a province-wide residency program with clinical training sites across the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, and other regions of British Columbia.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
Getting around
  • Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
  • Travel is reimbursed

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

✓ = the CaRMS page states it; – = not stated. From the program description and its rotation list.

Where you train

Vancouver, British Columbia: 16 teaching sites.

  • St. Paul’s Hospital
  • Vancouver General Hospital
  • Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria · rural or distributed site)
  • Victoria General Hospital (Victoria · rural or distributed site)
  • BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre
  • Lions Gate Hospital (North Vancouver)
  • Richmond Hospital (Richmond)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)
  • BC Children’s Hospital
  • Kelowna General Hospital (Kelowna · rural or distributed site)
  • Royal Inland Hospital (Kamloops · rural or distributed site)
Show all 16 sites
  • University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (Prince George · rural or distributed site)
  • Penticton Regional Hospital (Penticton · rural or distributed site)
  • Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Nanaimo · rural or distributed site)
  • East Kootenay Regional Hospital (Cranbrook · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 5 of 16, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 9; no published record for 2.

Hospital facts

16 sites · public figures and clinical record systems where they are published

Public figures for hospitals named above, each with its source and reference period. They describe the hospital, not the program. We match names to the sources by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

Clinical record
IHealth (Cerner electronic health record), fully electronic record since 2021 As of 31 Oct 2026. At Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria General Hospital.
Clinical record
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Feb 2022 As of 31 Oct 2026. At BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre, BC Children’s Hospital.
Clinical record
MEDITECH Expanse, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026. At Kelowna General Hospital, Royal Inland Hospital, Penticton Regional Hospital, East Kootenay Regional Hospital.

How to read the figures

  • Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26. All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
  • Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1. One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

St. Paul’s Hospital

Clinical record
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Nov 2019 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
8,691
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,240

Vancouver General Hospital

Clinical record
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Nov 2022 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Vancouver General Hospital in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
13,790
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
3,855

Royal Columbian Hospital

Clinical record
MEDITECH: Fraser Health electronic health record (Advance), fully electronic record since Sep 2024 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
4,798
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,447
Show facts for 13 more sites

Royal Jubilee Hospital

Matched to Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
14,532
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
3,973

Victoria General Hospital

Matched to Victoria General Hospital (Victoria) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
8,131
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,108

BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre

Matched to BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
5,033
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,348

Lions Gate Hospital

Clinical record
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Apr 2018 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Lions Gate Hospital (North Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
10,660
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,762

Richmond Hospital

Clinical record
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Jun 2024 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Richmond Hospital (Richmond) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
6,446
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,680

Surrey Memorial Hospital

Matched to Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
11,911
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,849

BC Children’s Hospital

Matched to BC Children's Hospital (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
7,396
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,910

Kelowna General Hospital

Matched to Kelowna General Hospital (Kelowna) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
15,707
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
4,090

Royal Inland Hospital

Matched to Royal Inland Hospital (Kamloops) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
10,812
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,914

University Hospital of Northern British Columbia

Matched to University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (Prince George) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
4,520
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,127

Penticton Regional Hospital

Matched to Penticton Regional Hospital (Penticton) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
3,482
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
837

Nanaimo Regional General Hospital

Clinical record
IHealth (Cerner electronic health record), fully electronic record since 2016 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Nanaimo) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
9,004
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,040

East Kootenay Regional Hospital

Matched to East Kootenay Regional Hospital (Cranbrook) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
4,520
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,068

Fraser Health's new electronic health record is live at 4 sites (Royal Columbian Hospital, Eagle Ridge Hospital, Fraser Canyon Hospital, Mission Memorial Hospital). Its other sites are still on its current clinical information system. As of 31 Oct 2026

Verify with the official source: each source button opens the publisher’s own page.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

About Vancouver

  • People

    662,248residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Vancouver

  • Housing

    3.7%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Vancouver, British Columbia (census metropolitan area)

  • Winter and summer

    5.3 °CJanuary mean19.0 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Vancouver (Harbour), 5.7 km away

  • Job outlook

    Moderatefor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Vancouver (its page: housing, getting around, weather, things to do, and every program that names it)

Sites as the program’s CaRMS page lists them. City figures are public statistics for the place named by the location; they describe the place, not the program.

How they choose

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.

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
2, 3 and 4 Feb 2027
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Info sessions

From the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), read 20 Oct 2026; a row tagged CANPREPP is on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026), alone or as well. Dates and times are as the program wrote them; “your time” is worked out in your browser when your time zone differs. Programs add and change sessions.

Pay and call

Provincial scale, last updated 2 Sep 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). Salaries from April 2027. One provincial scale for British Columbia, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, British Columbia
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$71,390 / year
PGY-2
$79,571 / year
PGY-3
$86,655 / year
PGY-4
$93,230 / year
PGY-5
$100,215 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (as the program states it)
In-house call
Call (provincial max)
1 in 4 in-house
Post-call rule (provincial)
Relieved within 2 hours of the call ending, or by 10:00 if earlier, when a resident on a 24-hour or longer shift could not get 6 uninterrupted hours of rest

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. RDBC agreement, 1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2029. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Benefits

13 lines as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024: Annual vacation, CMPA dues paid, Dental plan, and more
Annual vacation
4 weeks
CMPA dues paid
Yes. Mandatory
Dental plan
100% Premiums Paid
Educational leave
Yes
Extended health insurance
100% Premiums Paid
Life insurance
100% Premium Paid
Long-term disability insurance
Yes 100% Premiums Paid
Maternity leave
17 weeks, plus up to 78 weeks Parental Leave
Meal allowance
No
Provincial dues (% of salary)
1.5%
Provincial health insurance
100% Premiums Paid
Sick leave
Yes
Statutory holidays
2 x pay plus extra day with pay

Past matches

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

Positions at this site, all streams.

What this means

  • 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 or how heavy the workload is.
  • 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.

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)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviewsWhat changed
CMG stream165 years3 dates, 2–4 Feb 2027Virtual
  • Positions 20 → 16 from the 2026 match

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream205 years3 dates, 2–4 Feb 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The University of British Columbia Anesthesiology Residency Program provides comprehensive training in perioperative medicine, pain management, subspecialty anesthesia, and critical care.
  • Located in Vancouver, the program offers exceptional clinical exposure across multiple hospital sites, with over 250 dedicated anesthesia faculty guiding residents through a dynamic, hands-on specialty that intersects with every area of medicine.
Research
Residents undertake at least one scholarly project, with opportunities to join the two-year Clinical Investigator Program. The department attracts approximately $1 million in annual research funding.
Training setting
Training occurs across multiple urban and regional hospital sites in British Columbia, including Vancouver General Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital, BC Children's Hospital, and hospitals on Vancouver Island.
Teaching approach
The program uses a competency-based medical education approach with progressive autonomy, emphasizing hands-on clinical experience, structured academic learning, and comprehensive mentorship through each stage of training.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • CV review
  • Electives assessment
  • Personal letter
  • Reference letters
  • Research/publications
  • Interview performance

Positions, length and interviews as each match’s CaRMS pages stated them; what changed from our comparison of the two matches and our readings of the 2027 pages.

Contacts and links

Program directors
Program office

Program Manager

Write to the officeanae.residency@ubc.ca

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

Program websiteWebsiteInstagramCANPREPPCANPREPPThis program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Discussed on Reddit

Public Reddit posts and comments where someone describes this program. Each one links to Reddit.

These are public Reddit posts, reviewed by hand and linked here, not endorsed. They may be out of date. Confirm with the program.

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Anesthesiology elsewhere

Nearest to Vancouver

  • Fraser - AnesthesiologyUniversity of British Columbia

    Fraser · 59 km

    4 positions · CMG

  • Calgary - AnesthesiologyUniversity of Calgary

    Calgary, AB · 673 km

    8 positions · CMG

  • Edmonton - AnesthesiologyUniversity of Alberta

    Edmonton, AB · 818 km

    12 positions · CMG, IMG

In these collections:

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 27 Aug 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 35512 · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

The Applications per year and Offered interviews figures are 5-year averages the program reports to CaRMS: past cycles, not your odds.

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 24 Oct 2026.

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