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Fraser - Obstetrics and Gynecology

University of British ColumbiaFraser, British ColumbiaCompetitive RoS streamNew for 2027

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
Length
5 years
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
26–50%

Competitive RoS stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · this stream

Interviews

2 dates, 18–19 Jan 2027virtual

Fraser, 5 teaching sites · required rural rotation

Program website(opens in a new tab)CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Dedicated rotations in Vulvovaginal Health, Family Planning and Chronic Pelvic Pain.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • High-volume obstetrics at BC Women's Hospital, with more than 7,500 deliveries per year.

    From “FAQ” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a 5-year Obstetrics and Gynaecology residency, beginning with a basic clinical year at Royal Columbian Hospital or St. Paul's Hospital.
  • Training is centred at Vancouver teaching hospitals, plus a mandatory community rotation with free accommodation and travel funding.
  • Residents must complete a research project and get a dedicated research rotation.
  • The stream carries a Return of Service obligation within B.C. but outside the City of Vancouver.

The summary is written by CdnMD from the program’s CaRMS description.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Required rural rotation
Research
Required · research project · protected time
Getting around
  • Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
  • Travel is reimbursed

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • General Obstetrics (Transition to Discipline)
  • General Gynaecology (Transition to Discipline)
  • General Surgery (Transition to Discipline)
  • CRASH Course (Surgical Foundations) (Transition to Discipline · 4 week)
  • ICU (Transition to Discipline)
  • Emergency Medicine (Transition to Discipline)
  • CTU (Transition to Discipline)
  • NICU/Ultrasound (Transition to Discipline)
  • Bootcamp (prepare for Transition to Foundations; introduction to Research included) (Transition to Discipline)
  • Obstetrics (Foundations · BC Women's Hospital)
  • Gynaecology (Foundations · Vancouver General Hospital)
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Foundations · Royal Columbian Hospital)
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Foundations · St. Paul's Hospital)
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Foundations · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
  • Family Planning (Foundations)
  • Research (Foundations)
  • Maternal Fetal Medicine & Ultrasound (Core)
  • Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility including Pediatric Gynaecology (Core)
  • Vulvovaginal Health/Sexual Medicine (Core)
  • Reproductive Infectious Diseases (Core)
  • Gynaecologic Oncology (Core)
  • Urogynaecology (Core)
  • Community Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Core · 3 block · Whitehorse, Richmond, Prince George, Victoria, Courtney/Comox or Nanaimo)
  • Chronic Pelvic Pain (Core)
  • Surgical Selective/Elective (Core)
  • Daycare O.R. (Core)
  • Lead resident rotations (Transition to Practice · BC Women's, Vancouver General and St. Paul's Hospitals)

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

Where you train

Fraser, British Columbia: 5 teaching sites; required rural rotation.

  • Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
  • St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)
  • BC Women's Hospital (Vancouver)
  • Vancouver General Hospital (Vancouver)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)

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

Hospital facts

5 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 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

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

BC Women's Hospital

Clinical record
CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Feb 2022 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
5,033
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
1,348
Show facts for 2 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

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

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
Required · this stream
IMG requirements
  • Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
18 and 19 Jan 2027
Format
Virtual
  • MMI or rotating station

Info sessions

The 1 session listed for 2027 has passed.

6 Obstetrics and Gynecology 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 5 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
PGY-5
$100,215 / 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

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)).

Contacts and links

Program director
Program office

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.

Program websiteWebsiteThis program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Obstetrics and Gynecology elsewhere

Nearest to Fraser

In these collections:

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 4 Sep 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 36960 · 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 24 Oct 2026.

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