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Prince George - Diagnostic Radiology

University of British ColumbiaPrince George, British ColumbiaCompetitive RoS streamNew for 2027

At a glance

Approx. quota
1 position
Length
5 years
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
26–50%

Competitive RoS stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · this stream

Interviews

3 dates, 27–29 Jan 2027virtual

Prince George, 10 teaching sites

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

What stands out about this program

  • New Prince George-based radiology stream combining northern BC and Vancouver training with a BC return-of-service contract.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a new 5-year UBC Diagnostic Radiology stream with primary training locations in Prince George and Vancouver.
  • Matched residents must sign a Return of Service contract to be completed in B.C. outside the City of Vancouver.
  • Every resident must complete a clinical audit project, and travel between sites is supported under PGME policies.

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.
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    Due to the distributed nature and geographic location, residents should anticipate travel may be required between training sites to meet curriculum requirements

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Mixed settings
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Research
Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project · protected time
Getting around
  • Travel is reimbursed

By year

PGY-1
  • mini-rotationsBlocks 12 and 13
  • Radiology Anatomy BootcampBlock 11
  • CTU
  • medicine subspecialty
  • general surgery
  • surgical subspecialty
  • ER x2
  • ICU
  • neurology
  • OB
  • pediatrics
  • Medicine
  • Surgery
  • OB/GYN
  • Pediatrics
  • Emergency
  • Family Practice
  • ICU
  • Neurology
  • Anatomy
  • Elective
PGY-2
  • neuroradiology
  • chest radiology
  • musculoskeletal radiology
  • abdominal imaging
  • emergency and trauma radiology
  • MR
  • mammography
  • nuclear medicine

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • angiography/intervention (R-3 & 4/ Core)
  • pediatric radiology (R-3 & 4/ Core)

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

Where you train

Prince George, British Columbia: 10 teaching sites.

  • Prince George
  • Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) (Vancouver)
  • St. Paul's Hospital (SPH) (Vancouver)
  • UBC Hospital (UBCH) (Vancouver)
  • BC Children's Hospital (BCCH) (Vancouver)
  • British Columbia Cancer (BC Cancer)
  • Mount Saint Joseph (MSJ) (Vancouver)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) (New Westminster)
  • Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) (North Vancouver)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) (Surrey)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 1 of 10, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 6; no published record for 3.

Hospital facts

8 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
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Nov 2022 As of 31 Oct 2026. At Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), UBC Hospital (UBCH).
Clinical record
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Nov 2019 As of 31 Oct 2026. At St. Paul's Hospital (SPH), Mount Saint Joseph (MSJ).

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.

Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)

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

St. Paul's Hospital (SPH)

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

UBC Hospital (UBCH)

Matched to UBC Health Sciences Centre Hospital in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
7,983
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,043
Show facts for 5 more sites

BC Children's Hospital (BCCH)

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

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

Mount Saint Joseph (MSJ)

Matched to Mount Saint Joseph Hospital (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
15,711
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
4,233

Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH)

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

Lions Gate Hospital (LGH)

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

Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH)

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

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 Prince George

  • People

    76,708residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Prince George

  • Housing

    4.3%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Prince George, British Columbia (census agglomeration)

  • Winter and summer

    −7.8 °CJanuary mean15.9 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Prince George, 7.1 km away

  • Job outlook

    Moderatefor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Prince George (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
Return of service
Required · this stream
IMG requirements
  • Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
27, 28 and 29 Jan 2027
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Info sessions

None listed on the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) (read 20 Oct 2026) or on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026). Programs add sessions through the fall.

1 Diagnostic Radiology info session at other programsAll info 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 (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)).

Contacts and links

Program directors

  • Dr. Leyla Yazdi

  • Dr. Will Guest

CaRMS lists no email for the directors.

Program office

Education Programs Manager

Write to the officeradiology.residency@ubc.ca

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

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

Diagnostic Radiology elsewhere

Nearest to Prince George

  • Vancouver - Diagnostic RadiologyUniversity of British Columbia

    Vancouver · 516 km

    CMG, Competitive RoS

  • Edmonton - Diagnostic RadiologyUniversity of Alberta

    Edmonton, AB · 610 km

    5 positions · CMG

  • Calgary - Diagnostic RadiologyUniversity of Calgary

    Calgary, AB · 668 km

    6 positions · CMG

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 37063 · How these pages are made ›

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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