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Kamloops - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine

University of British ColumbiaKamloops, British ColumbiaCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

At a glance

Approx. quota
4 positions
Length
1 year
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
26–50%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Interviews

2 dates, 19–20 Nov 2026virtual

Kamloops, 5 teaching sites · 4 rural weeks

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Home base Royal Inland Hospital is described as BC's only CCFP-EM training site accredited as a tertiary trauma centre.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Residents can work toward CPoCUS Independent Practitioner ultrasound certification.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Four-week ED rotation in Whistler focused on acute orthopedic injuries.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a 1-year family medicine emergency medicine program based at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.
  • Residents spend 14 weeks in the Royal Inland Hospital ED as senior residents, plus trauma, ICU, CCU and anesthesia rotations there.
  • Away rotations include rural ED in Merritt, pediatric ED in Surrey, ICU at St Paul's Hospital and orthopedic-focused ED in Whistler.

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

    At UBC, we rely on the entire province for training. Therefore, the ability to complete rotations 'away' from your home base is expected.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Regional community
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
  • Rural / remote
Rural exposure
Required rural rotation (4 weeks)
Focus areas
  • POCUS curriculum

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • ED (14 weeks · Royal Inland Hospital)
  • rural (4 weeks · Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt BC)
  • quaternary hospital (4 weeks · a variety of sites across BC)
  • tertiary hospital (4 weeks · a variety of sites across BC, including Royal Inland Hospital)
  • Trauma (4 weeks · Royal Inland Hospital)
  • ICU (3 weeks · Royal Inland Hospital)
  • ICU (3 weeks · St Paul's Hospital)
  • Pediatric ED (4 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
  • ED with focus on acute orthopedic injuries (4 weeks · Whistler Health Care Clinic/ED)
  • CCU (4 weeks · Royal Inland Hospital)
  • combined adult & pediatric anesthesia (4 weeks · Royal Inland Hospital)
  • Optional toxicology/emergency block

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

Where you train

Kamloops, British Columbia: 5 teaching sites; 4 rural weeks.

  • Royal Inland Hospital
  • St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver)
  • Whistler Health Care Center (Whistler · rural or distributed site)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)
  • Nicola Valley Hospital (Merritt · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 1 of 5, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1; no published record for 3.

Hospital facts

3 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.

Royal Inland Hospital

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

Matched to Royal Inland Hospital (Kamloops) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
10,812
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,914

St. Paul’s Hospital

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

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

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 Kamloops

  • People

    97,902residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Kamloops

  • Housing

    $1,564one-bedroom rent a month, new tenants

    CMHC, October 2025

  • Winter and summer

    −2.7 °CJanuary mean21.9 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Kamloops, 6.0 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Kamloops (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
  • 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)
19 and 20 Nov 2026
Format
Virtual
  • 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 (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 director

  • Dr. Patrick Prendergast

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Program office

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.

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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 34593 · 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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