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Vancouver - Diagnostic Radiology

University of British ColumbiaVancouver, British Columbia

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
7 positions
2 positions
Length
5 years
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
26–50%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Competitive RoS stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required

IMG requirement: Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program details under How they choose

Interviews

3 dates, 27–29 Jan 2027virtual

Vancouver, 10 teaching sites

Program website(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

  • Monthly radiology day-back curriculum runs longitudinally through the R-1 off-service year.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Some residents may relocate to Victoria for the entire R-1 year.

    From “Important information” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a 5-year diagnostic radiology residency based at UBC-affiliated hospitals.
  • R-1 residents are placed by mini-match at St. Paul's, Royal Jubilee (Victoria) or Royal Columbian Hospital.
  • Every resident must complete a clinical audit project, and research is strongly encouraged.
  • Applicants must complete the Casper test, and interviews are virtual.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Research
Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project · protected time

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
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)
PGY-1
  • mini-rotationsBlocks 12 and 13
  • radiology anatomyBlock 11
  • 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
PGY-3
  • angiography/intervention
  • pediatric radiology

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • Community Hospital rotation (4 weeks · Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) in North Vancouver)
  • Community Hospital rotation (4 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) in Surrey)

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

Where you train

Vancouver, British Columbia: 10 teaching sites.

  • Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)
  • St. Paul's Hospital (SPH)
  • UBC Hospital (UBCH)
  • BC Children's Hospital (BCCH)
  • British Columbia Cancer (BC Cancer)
  • Mount Saint Joseph Hospital (MSJ)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH)
  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria)
  • Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) (North Vancouver)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) (Surrey)
  • Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)
  • St. Paul's Hospital (SPH)
  • UBC Hospital (UBCH)
  • BC Children's Hospital (BCCH)
  • British Columbia Cancer (BC Cancer)
  • Mount Saint Joseph (MSJ)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH)
  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria · rural or distributed site)
  • Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) (North Vancouver)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) (Surrey)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites, all streams: MEDITECH at 1 of 11, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 8; no published record for 2.

Hospital facts

9 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 Hospital (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 6 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 Hospital (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

Royal Jubilee Hospital

Clinical record
IHealth (Cerner electronic health record), fully electronic record since 2021 As of 31 Oct 2026

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

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 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
Return of service
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service
Required
IMG requirements
  • Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page 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)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviewsWhat changed
CMG stream75 years3 dates, 27–29 Jan 2027VirtualNothing noted
Competitive RoS stream25 years3 dates, 27–29 Jan 2027VirtualNothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream75 years3 dates, 28–30 Jan 2026
Competitive RoS stream25 years3 dates, 28–30 Jan 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The UBC Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program is a comprehensive 5-year training program designed to produce well-rounded radiologists capable of working in both clinical and academic settings.
  • The program aims to train radiologists who can serve the imaging and interventional needs of patients in British Columbia and Canada, with a strong emphasis on leadership and specialty stewardship.
Research
Residents are required to complete a clinical audit project and are strongly encouraged to pursue at least one research project during their residency, with dedicated research time and an annual resident research day.
Training setting
Training occurs across six UBC affiliated hospitals in Vancouver, including Vancouver General Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital, UBC Hospital, BC Children's Hospital, British Columbia Cancer Agency, and Mount Saint Joseph.
Teaching approach
The program emphasizes competency-based medical education with progressive independence, focusing on developing residents' clinical skills, research capabilities, and leadership potential through structured rotations, academic half-days, and supervised clinical experiences.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • CV review
  • Electives assessment
  • Casper Test
  • Extra-curricular activities
  • Leadership skills
  • Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
  • Personal letter
  • Reference documents
  • Research/Publications
  • Transcripts

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

  • 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 websiteWebsiteCANPREPPCANPREPPdescribes academic half-dayFrom the programThis program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Diagnostic Radiology elsewhere

Nearest to Vancouver

  • Prince George - Diagnostic RadiologyUniversity of British Columbia

    Prince George · 516 km

    1 position · Competitive RoS

  • Calgary - Diagnostic RadiologyUniversity of Calgary

    Calgary, AB · 673 km

    6 positions · CMG

  • Edmonton - Diagnostic RadiologyUniversity of Alberta

    Edmonton, AB · 818 km

    5 positions · CMG

Source

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

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 35554 (CMG stream), 36488 (Competitive RoS stream) · 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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