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Vancouver Island - Internal Medicine

University of British ColumbiaVancouver Island, British Columbia

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
5 positions
1 position
Length
4 years
Applications per year
51–200
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

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

Interviews

Not stated on CaRMS page

Vancouver Island, 11 teaching sites8 teaching sites

Program website(opens in a new tab)Department Instagram(opens in a new tab)CANPREPP profile(opens in a new tab)CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Mandatory three-year longitudinal outpatient Internal Medicine clinic where each resident follows their own patients monthly.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Small distributed cohort of 21 core residents based in Victoria rather than Vancouver.

    From “FAQ” on the CaRMS page

  • This is the Vancouver Island distributed site of UBC's Internal Medicine program, with training mainly at Victoria General Hospital and Royal Jubilee Hospital.
  • PGY-1 includes mandatory blocks in Vancouver, and PGY-2 includes a 4-week community rotation in a smaller Vancouver Island centre.
  • All residents attend a mandatory longitudinal outpatient clinic, and up to three months of research time is allowed.

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 Vancouver Island 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
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • Small program
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time

By year

PGY-1
  • Sub-specialty electiveslocal Victoria/Vancouver Island Content20 weeks
  • CTU16 weeks in Victoria and 2 weeks in Vancouver18 weeks total
  • CCUVictoria8 weeks
  • ICUVictoria4 weeks
  • Boot CampVancouver (VGH)2 weeks
  • Fundamental Critical Care Skills Course (FCCS)
  • Procedures Training
PGY-2
  • Sub-Specialty electivesmostly on Vancouver Island with some possible in other locations24 weeks
  • CTUVictoria16 weeks total
  • CCUVictoria8 weeks
  • Communitya smaller center on Vancouver Island4 weeks
PGY-3
  • Sub-Specialty ElectivesVancouver Island, in Vancouver or in other locations28 weeks
  • CTUVictoria12 weeks total
  • ICUVictoria at Royal Jubilee Hospital and Victoria General Hospital8 weeks
  • Ambulatory MedicineVictoria4 weeks

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

Where you train

Vancouver Island, British Columbia: 11 teaching sites8 teaching sites.

  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria)
  • Victoria General Hospital (Victoria)
  • BC Cancer Agency (Victoria)
  • The longitudinal Medicine Clinic at RJH (UMAC Clinic in the Royal Block) (Victoria)
  • Community sites in Duncan (Duncan · rural or distributed site)
  • Nanaimo (Nanaimo · rural or distributed site)
  • Campbell River (Campbell River · rural or distributed site)
  • Comox (Comox · rural or distributed site)
  • Vancouver General Hospital (Vancouver)
  • St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital

Distributed across a region

  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria)
  • Victoria General Hospital (Victoria)
  • BC Cancer Agency (Victoria)
  • The longitudinal Medicine Clinic at RJH (UMAC Clinic in the Royal Block) (Victoria)
  • Community sites in Duncan, Nanaimo, Campbell River and Comox (rural or distributed site)
  • Vancouver General Hospital (Vancouver)
  • St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)
  • Royal Columbian Hospital

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites, all streams: MEDITECH at 1 of 12, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 5; no published record for 6.

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.

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

Clinical record
IHealth (Cerner electronic health record), fully electronic record since 2016 As of 31 Oct 2026
Show facts for 3 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

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

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

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
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)
Not stated on CaRMS page
Format
Virtual
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

The 1 session listed for 2027 has passed.

16 Internal Medicine info sessions at other programsAll 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. 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 (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

Open after round 1 in 1 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 0 of 9 years.

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: Vancouver Island.

Show the table, with round 2
Positions at this site, all streams, still open after round 1 and after round 2, by year. Each count above zero links to the CaRMS list page it comes from.
YearOpen after round 1Open after round 2
2018not available0
201900
202000
202100
202200
202300
202400
20254 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
202600

CaRMS’s first-round list for 2018 was not found, so round 1 is counted over 8 years and round 2 over 9.

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 stream54 yearsVirtualNothing noted
Competitive RoS stream14 yearsVirtual
  • New for 2027

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream55 years1 date, 9 Jan 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The University of British Columbia's Internal Medicine Residency Program on Vancouver Island offers a comprehensive three-year training experience that provides equivalent but unique medical education compared to the main Vancouver program.
  • Residents will train primarily on Vancouver Island with mandatory rotations in Victoria and Vancouver, emphasizing personalized learning, academic development, and diverse clinical experiences.
Research
Three months of research time during core training, with mentorship, annual research events, and funding for conference presentations.
Training setting
Training occurs primarily at Royal Jubilee Hospital and Victoria General Hospital in Victoria, with additional rotations in community sites like Duncan, Nanaimo, Campbell River, and Comox, and mandatory blocks in Vancouver hospitals.
Teaching approach
The program emphasizes education over service, uses a competency-based approach with graded responsibility, and provides a flexible curriculum that allows personalized learning experiences with excellent faculty access.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
  • Reference letters
  • Personal letter
  • CV/Resume
  • 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

  • Dr. Tristen Gilchrist

  • Dr. Kari-Jean McKenzieAssociate Program Director - Vancouver Island

CaRMS lists no email for the directors.

Program office

Internal Medicine Program Coordinator

Email on the CaRMS page(opens in a new tab)

“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.

Program websiteWebsiteDepartment InstagramDepartment InstagramCANPREPPCANPREPPThis program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

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 Vancouver Island

  • Vancouver - Internal MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Vancouver · 173 km

    CMG, IMG, Competitive RoS

  • Indigenous - Internal MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Indigenous · 173 km

    2 positions · CMG

  • Fraser - Internal MedicineUniversity of British Columbia

    Fraser · 233 km

    CMG, Competitive RoS

Source

The CMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 27 Aug 2026 · The Competitive RoS stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 4 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 35828 (CMG stream), 36307 (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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