Surrey - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine
University of British ColumbiaSurrey, British ColumbiaCompetitive stream
Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match
Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 7
- Length
- 1
- Applications per year
- 51–200
- Offered interviews
- 26–50%
Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
2 dates, 19–20 Nov 2026
Surrey, 4 teaching sites · 4 rural weeks
What stands out about this program
Based in a very high-volume ED with a separate pediatric emergency department of about 45,000 annual visits.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Four-week orthopedic-injury-focused ED rotation in Whistler.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Some residents arrange their trauma rotation in South Africa.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
- This 1-year emergency medicine program is based at Surrey Memorial Hospital, where residents act as senior residents in the ED and ICU.
- Rotations include 16 weeks of high-acuity ED care at SMH, trauma at Royal Columbian Hospital, 4 weeks of rural training, and orthopedic-focused ED work in Whistler.
- An ultrasound boot camp aims for CPoCUS Independent Practitioner certification.
Based on what the program says about itself.
- You’re open to training at sites across a region, not at one hospital.
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What training looks like
- Setting
- Urban community
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Rural / remote
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation (4 weeks)
- Focus areas
- POCUS curriculum
- Procedural emphasis
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- ED High Acuity ED Care (16 weeks · SMH)
- tertiary hospital (4 weeks · sites across the Fraser Valley)
- rural (4 weeks · a variety of sites across BC)
- quaternary hospital (4 weeks · several sites across BC, including SMH)
- Trauma (4 weeks · Royal Columbian Hospital)
- ICU (6 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
- Pediatric ED (4 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
- ED with focus on acute orthopedic injuries (4 weeks · Whistler Health Care Clinic/ED)
- CCU (2 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
- combined adult & pediatric anesthesia (4 weeks)
- Optional toxicology/emergency block
Where you train
Surrey, British Columbia: 4 teaching sites; 4 rural weeks.
- Surrey Memorial Hospital
- St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver)
- Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
- Whistler Health Care Center (Whistler · rural or distributed site)
Distributed across a region
Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 1 of 4, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1; no published record for 2.
Hospital facts
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.
Surrey Memorial Hospital
- Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
- 11,911
- Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
- 2,849
St. Paul’s Hospital
- Clinical record
- CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Nov 2019
- Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
- 8,691
- Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
- 2,240
Royal Columbian Hospital
- Clinical record
- MEDITECH: Fraser Health electronic health record (Advance), fully electronic record since Sep 2024
- Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
- 4,798
- Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
- 1,447
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.
About Surrey
People
568,322residents, 2021 Census
Housing
3.7%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
3.6 °CJanuary mean18.8 °CJuly mean
Job outlook
not published for this specialty
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
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
- 19 and 20 Nov 2026
- Format
- Virtual
- MMI or rotating station
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-3 | $86,655 / year |
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
Benefits
- 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
EM Program Manager
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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