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Vancouver - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine

University of British ColumbiaVancouver, 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 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

Vancouver, 7 teaching sites · 4 rural weeks

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Base site runs an ED ECMO program, one of three in Canada.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Four-week orthopedic-injury-focused emergency rotation in Whistler.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Several residents arrange their trauma rotation in South Africa.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This one-year emergency medicine program is based at St. Paul's Hospital, a downtown Vancouver tertiary care centre.
  • Residents spend 15 weeks in the St Paul's emergency department plus 16 weeks of emergency medicine at distributed sites, including rural, pediatric and Whistler orthopedic-focused rotations.
  • Training also includes trauma, ICU, CCU and anesthesia rotations, and an ultrasound boot camp aimed at Independent Practitioner certification.

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

    Additional 16 weeks of emergency medicine training at distributed sites:

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

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

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • busy inner-city emergency department (15 weeks · St Paul’s Hospital)
  • tertiary hospital (4 weeks · chosen from a variety of sites across BC)
  • quaternary hospital (4 weeks · chosen from a variety of sites across BC, including St Paul’s)
  • rural hospital (4 weeks · chosen from a variety of sites across BC)
  • pediatric emergency medicine (4 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
  • emergency with a focus on orthopedic injury (4 weeks · Whistler Health Care Clinic/ED)
  • trauma (4 weeks · Royal Columbian Hospital or Vancouver General Hospital)
  • ICU in a senior resident role (6 weeks · St Paul's, Royal Columbian or Surrey Memorial Hospitals)
  • CCU (3 weeks · St Paul’s Hospital or Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, BC)
  • combined pediatric and adult anesthesia (4 weeks)
  • Optional toxicology/emergency block

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

Where you train

Vancouver, British Columbia: 7 teaching sites; 4 rural weeks.

  • St. Paul’s Hospital
  • Lions Gate Hospital (North Vancouver)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)
  • Whistler Health Care Center (Whistler · rural or distributed site)
  • Vancouver General Hospital
  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 1 of 7, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 4; no published record for 2.

Hospital facts

6 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.

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

Lions Gate Hospital

Clinical record
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Apr 2018 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Lions Gate Hospital (North Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
10,660
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,762

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
Show facts for 3 more sites

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

Vancouver General Hospital

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

Royal Jubilee Hospital

Clinical record
IHealth (Cerner electronic health record), fully electronic record since 2021 As of 31 Oct 2026

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

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

    not published for this specialty

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
  • 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 34640 · 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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