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Vancouver - Emergency Medicine

University of British ColumbiaVancouver, British ColumbiaCMG stream

At a glance

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

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Interviews

2 dates, 3–4 Feb 2027virtual

Vancouver, 9 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

  • Training at VGH, the province's quaternary referral centre, which sees transplant, spinal cord injury and burns cases.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • High-fidelity in-situ simulations are held weekly in the trauma bay with nurses and allied staff.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • A block-length research design course (NERD) is held in Vancouver for residents from all sites.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This is the Vancouver site of the five-year UBC Royal College Emergency Medicine residency, based at Vancouver General Hospital.
  • Residents also rotate at BC Children's Hospital, St. Paul's and community-based EDs in the same city.
  • PGY-1 includes an introductory ultrasound course and a dedicated ultrasound block, and residents must complete a scholarly project.
  • Interviews are held jointly for all five UBC sites by online video.

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
Focus areas
  • POCUS curriculum
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project
Getting around
  • Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for

By year

PGY-1
  • dedicated ultrasound blockeach program site
PGY-2
  • NERD (Novel Education in Research Design)Vancouverblock-length

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

Where you train

Vancouver, British Columbia: 9 teaching sites.

  • Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)
  • British Columbia Children's Hospital (BCCH)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH)
  • Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) (Kelowna)
  • Paul's Hospital (SPH)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH)
  • Victoria General Hospital (VicGH) (Victoria)
  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH) (Victoria)
  • University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC) (Prince George)

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 2 of 9, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 5; 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
IHealth (Cerner electronic health record), fully electronic record since 2021 As of 31 Oct 2026. At Victoria General Hospital (VicGH), Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH).

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)

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

British Columbia 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

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
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Kelowna General Hospital (KGH)

Clinical record
MEDITECH Expanse, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

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

Paul's Hospital (SPH)

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

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

Victoria General Hospital (VicGH)

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

Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH)

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

University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (UHNBC)

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

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.

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

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

Info sessions

The 1 session listed for 2027 has passed.

14 Emergency Medicine info sessions at other programsAll 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. 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 (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 stream65 years2 dates, 3–4 Feb 2027VirtualNothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream65 years1 date, 21 Jan 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The UBC Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Vancouver is a comprehensive 5-year training program that aims to graduate exceptional emergency physicians.
  • As the founding site, Vancouver offers unparalleled clinical exposure at a quaternary referral center with complex patient populations and expert faculty.
Research
Residents complete a mandatory scholarly project and have opportunities to engage in research through the NERD course and faculty collaborations.
Training setting
Urban academic medical center in Vancouver, with multiple hospital sites including Vancouver General Hospital (900-bed Level 1 Trauma Center) and British Columbia Children's Hospital.
Teaching approach
Competency-Based Medical Education with progressive independence, emphasizing simulation, scholarly activities, and comprehensive skill development across emergency medicine domains.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • CV
  • Medical Student Performance Record
  • Personal letter
  • Reference letters
  • Elective experiences
  • 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 director

  • Dr. Tina Yokota

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Program office

Program Coordinator, Vancouver, Program Manager

Write to the officeem.vancouver@ubc.ca

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing. Site staff and other contacts are listed there too.

Program websiteWebsiteInstagramCANPREPPCANPREPPincludes a resident experience sectionFrom the programVancouver EM(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Videos and podcasts

From the program

Public podcast episodes and videos where the program presents itself. The short descriptions are ours; each link goes to the original.

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

All videos, podcasts and discussions →

Emergency Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Vancouver

  • Fraser - Emergency MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Fraser · 59 km

    CMG, Competitive RoS

  • Vancouver Island - Emergency MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Vancouver Island · 173 km

    CMG, Competitive RoS

  • Interior - Emergency MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Interior · 253 km

    CMG, Competitive RoS

In these collections:

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 28 Aug 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 36063 · 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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