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Fraser - Internal Medicine

University of British ColumbiaFraser, British Columbia

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
5 positions
Length
4 years
Applications per year
201–400
Offered interviews
26–50%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Competitive RoS stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · all residents · 3 years

IMG requirement: Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program details under How they choose

Meet and greet

details info sessions of this program

Wed 4 Nov 2026,4:00–5:00 pm PSTvia CANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)

Interviews

15 dates, 18 Jan – 5 Feb 2027virtual

Fraser, 12 teaching sites

CANPREPP profile(opens in a new tab)CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • At least 3 community spoke-site rotations in the first 3 years, compared with the usual single one.

    From “Training sites” on the CaRMS page

  • Team elective in Rwanda for senior residents, with two senior residents and one faculty member.

    From “Additional information” on the CaRMS page

  • The Fraser Internal Medicine program is a distributed site of UBC's Vancouver-based program, with Surrey Memorial Hospital as its home site.
  • It uses a hub-and-spoke model with 8 community spoke sites, plus mandatory first-year blocks at St Paul's Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital.
  • Residents attend a monthly longitudinal clinic in PGY1–PGY3, and PGY2 and PGY3 use a partial night float system.

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

    The Fraser Internal Medicine Residency Training Program is a distributed site of the program based at UBC in Vancouver.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Urban community
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time

By year

PGY-1
  • Bootcamp (aligned with the Vancouver Program)
  • Internal Medicine CTU Junior rotation, with on-call
  • Internal Medicine Longitudinal Clinic
  • CCU Junior rotation
  • ICU Junior rotation
  • Subspecialty rotations
PGY-2
  • Internal Medicine CTU Ward or ED Consults
  • Internal Medicine Longitudinal Clinic
  • Community General Internal Medicine
  • CCU Senior
  • Subspeciality rotations
  • Internal Medicine CTU Senior rotation, with on-call
  • Internal Medicine Senior consult rotation (ward or ED consults)
  • Internal Medicine Community IM rotation
  • ICU Senior – Advanced Core
  • Subspecialty rotations
  • Internal Medicine Longitudinal rotation
  • Partial senior nightfloat oncall system

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

Where you train

Fraser, British Columbia: 12 teaching sites.

  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital
  • St Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)
  • Vancouver General Hospital (Vancouver)
  • Abbotsford Regional Hospital (Abbotsford · rural or distributed site)
  • Burnaby Hospital (Burnaby · rural or distributed site)
  • Chilliwack General Hospital (Chilliwack · rural or distributed site)
  • Delta Hospital (Delta · rural or distributed site)
  • Eagle Ridge Hospital (rural or distributed site)
  • Langley Memorial Hospital (Langley · rural or distributed site)
  • Peace Arch Hospital (rural or distributed site)
  • Ridge Meadows Hospital (rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 2 of 12, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 2; no published record for 8.

Hospital facts

12 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
MEDITECH: Fraser Health electronic health record (Advance), fully electronic record since Sep 2024 As of 31 Oct 2026. At Royal Columbian Hospital, Eagle Ridge 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.

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

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

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
Show facts for 9 more sites

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

Abbotsford Regional Hospital

Matched to Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre (Abbotsford) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
6,232
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,667

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

Chilliwack General Hospital

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

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
7,586
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,009

Delta Hospital

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

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
4,559
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,178

Eagle Ridge Hospital

Matched to Eagle Ridge Hospital (Port Moody) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
6,014
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,496

Langley Memorial Hospital

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

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
6,154
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,643

Peace Arch Hospital

Matched to Peace Arch Hospital (White Rock) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
8,039
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,036

Ridge Meadows Hospital

Matched to Ridge Meadows Hospital (Maple Ridge) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
9,131
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,244

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
Return of service
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service
Required · all residents · 3 years
IMG requirements
  • Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 Jan 2027; 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Feb 2027
Format
Virtual
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

From the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), read 20 Oct 2026; a row tagged CANPREPP is on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026), alone or as well. Dates and times are as the program wrote them; “your time” is worked out in your browser when your time zone differs. Programs add and change sessions.

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 the 4 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, British Columbia
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$71,390 / year
PGY-2
$79,571 / year
PGY-3
$86,655 / year
PGY-4
$93,230 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (as the program states it)
In-house call · night float
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

Past matches

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

What this means

  • A position can go unfilled because of where the site is, because it is open to IMGs only or to another restricted stream, or because the quota changed late.
  • It says nothing about the quality of the training or how heavy the workload is.
  • A site’s numbers are shown when it had positions open after round 1 in at least 2 of 8 years or at least 3 in one year.

Source: CaRMS’s lists of positions open after round 1 and after round 2, as read in October 2026 (latest: 2026 round 1 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab), 2026 round 2 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviewsWhat changed
CMG stream24 years15 dates, 18 Jan – 5 Feb 2027VirtualNothing noted
Competitive RoS stream54 years15 dates, 18 Jan – 5 Feb 2027VirtualNothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream25 years1 date, 9 Jan 2026
Competitive RoS stream55 years1 date, 9 Jan 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The UBC Internal Medicine - Fraser program offers comprehensive four-year training in Internal Medicine, focusing on developing excellent general internists through experiential learning across diverse clinical settings.
  • Residents will gain progressive clinical responsibilities and comprehensive skills through a competency-based curriculum across multiple community and academic sites in the Fraser Health region.
Research
Three research blocks during core training, support from UBC Research Office and Fraser Health Department of Evaluation and Research, mandatory research/scholarly project presentation at annual research day.
Training setting
A hub-and-spoke model with Surrey Memorial Hospital as the central hub and eight community sites across the Fraser Health region, serving a diverse, multicultural population of over 1.9 million people.
Teaching approach
Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) with experiential learning, progressive clinical responsibility, and training aligned with Royal College phases: Transition-to-Discipline, Foundations, Core, and Transition to Practice.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • CV
  • Electives
  • Extra-curricular activities
  • Leadership skills
  • Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
  • Personal letter
  • Reference documents
  • Interview performance

Positions, length and interviews as each match’s CaRMS pages stated them; what changed from our comparison of the two matches and our readings of the 2027 pages.

Contacts and links

Program directors
Program office

Senior Program Assistant

Write to the officeFraserIM.PGME@ubc.ca

“For questions not covered on CaRMS site, email:” · 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.

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Discussed on Reddit

Public Reddit posts and comments where someone describes this program. Each one links to Reddit.

These are public Reddit posts, reviewed by hand and linked here, not endorsed. They may be out of date. Confirm with the program.

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Internal Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Fraser

  • Indigenous - Internal MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Indigenous · 59 km

    2 positions · CMG

  • Vancouver - Internal MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Vancouver · 59 km

    CMG, IMG, Competitive RoS

  • Interior - Internal MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Interior · 221 km

    3 positions · CMG

In these collections:

Source

The CMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 3 Sep 2026 · The Competitive RoS stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 3 Sep 2026 · 2027 match · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 35247 (CMG stream), 35956 (Competitive RoS stream) · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

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 24 Oct 2026.

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