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Vancouver Island - Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine

University of British ColumbiaVancouver Island, 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
76–100%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Interviews

3 dates, 15–17 Oct 2026Traditional (one on one/two on one); Panel; MMI or rotating station

Vancouver Island, 12 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

  • Builds on a Victoria-based clinical addiction medicine fellowship that has run since 2018, with 12 graduates.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Academic teaching is shared with social work, nurse practitioner, nursing and pharmacy fellows.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • This 1-year addiction medicine enhanced skills program trains family physicians to work as addiction care consultants in the Island Health region.
  • It has nine core blocks and three elective blocks, plus a year-long half-day community-based continuity experience.
  • The year begins with a two-week academic block at the BCCSU in Vancouver, and residents must present at the annual BCCSU conference.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Mixed settings
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • family_practice_continuity
Research
Required · 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) (Core)
  • Inpatient Withdrawal Management Unit (Core)
  • Outpatient specialty addiction clinics (Core)
  • Inpatient concurrent psychiatric disorders (Core)
  • Youth addiction (Core)
  • Private treatment centre (Core · Homewood Ravensview Treatment Centre)
  • Longitudinal Outpatient Continuity of Care Experience (Core · year-long half-day)
  • perinatal substance use (Elective)
  • correctional facilities (Elective)
  • infectious diseases (HCV, HIV) (Elective)
  • Indigenous health and wellness (Elective)
  • dedicated research block (Elective)

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

Where you train

Vancouver Island, British Columbia: 12 teaching sites.

  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria)
  • Victoria General Hospital (Victoria)
  • Nanaimo General Hospital (Nanaimo)
  • Campbell River Hospital (Campbell River)
  • Withdrawal Management Unit – Detox
  • (Victoria) Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (Victoria)
  • Cedars (Cobble Hill)
  • Edgewood (Nanaimo)
  • Homewood Ravensview Treatment Centre
  • Foundry Youth clinic
  • Cool Aid Inner City Community Health Center
  • Her Way Home

Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 3 of 12; no published record for 9.

Hospital facts

4 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.

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.

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

Nanaimo 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
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Campbell River Hospital

Matched to North Island Hospital Campbell River and District (Campbell River) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
2,628
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
664

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
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)
  • Panel
  • MMI or rotating station

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)
In-house and 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)

“We are currently working remotely, so email contact is best.” · the program’s note on CaRMS

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)

Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine elsewhere

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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 34632 · 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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