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Fraser - Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine

University of British ColumbiaFraser, British ColumbiaCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
51–75%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Interviews

3 dates, 15–17 Oct 2026virtual

Fraser, 13 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

Also at UBC, applied for at the school:

Not through CaRMS: you apply to UBC, on its own dates. Confirm on the school’s page before you apply.

What stands out about this program

  • Begins with a two-week academic block including lecturers and people with lived experience.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Includes 4 days of introductory and advanced motivational interviewing training.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Residents must present at the annual BC Centre on Substance Use conference.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • This 1-year addiction medicine enhanced skills program trains family physicians in inpatient and outpatient substance use disorder management and concurrent disorders.
  • Training takes place in acute care, residential and community outpatient settings in the Fraser Health Region.
  • The year has nine core blocks, three elective blocks and a year-long half-day longitudinal community practice experience.

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

    Training occurs at a wide variety of acute care, residential and community outpatient settings based in Fraser Health Region

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Urban community
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • Longitudinal / integrated
Research
Offered · research project · protected time

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Acute care (Addiction Medicine Consult Service)
  • Inpatient Withdrawal Management
  • Outpatient specialty addiction clinics
  • Women’s residential treatment program (BC Women’s Hospital)
  • Inpatient concurrent psychiatric disorders
  • Youth addiction
  • Private treatment centre (Kinghaven Treatment Centre, Peardonville Treatment Centre and Maple Ridge Treatment Centre)
  • Longitudinal Outpatient Continuity of Care Experience
  • perinatal substance use
  • public health
  • correctional facilities
  • infectious diseases (HCV, HIV)
  • Indigenous health and wellness
  • dedicated research block

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

Where you train

Fraser, British Columbia: 13 teaching sites.

  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
  • Burnaby Hospital (Burnaby)
  • BC Women's Hospital
  • Creekside Withdrawal Management Centre
  • Fraser South (Surrey) Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (Surrey)
  • Fraser North (New Westminster) Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (New Westminster)
  • Fraser East (Abbotsford) Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (Abbotsford)
  • Kinghaven Treatment Centre
  • Peardonville Treatment Centre
  • Maple Ridge Treatment Centre
  • Timber Creek Tertiary Psychiatry Unit
Show all 13 sites
  • Jim Pattison Outpatient Centre (Surrey)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 1 of 13, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1; no published record for 11.

Hospital facts

5 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.

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.

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

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

Burnaby Hospital

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

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
8,388
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,058
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BC Women's Hospital

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

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

Jim Pattison Outpatient Centre

Matched to Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre (Surrey) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
5,805
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,362

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.

Sites as the program’s CaRMS page lists them.

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

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
15, 16 and 17 Oct 2026
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

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 PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

Annual salary by PGY level, British Columbia
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$86,655 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (as the program states it)
Home 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

Contacts and links

Program directors
Program office

Addiction Medicine Program Coordinator, Enhanced Skills Program Manager

Email on the CaRMS page(opens in a new tab)

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.

UBC Family Practice Enhanced Skills(opens in a new tab)BCCSU Fellowship Program(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

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Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · FM/ES 2027 match · last approved 27 Aug 2026.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34537 · 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 8 Oct 2026.

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