Vancouver - Pediatrics - Research Track

University of British ColumbiaVancouver, British ColumbiaCMG stream

Approx. quota: 1 position
Length: 4 years
Applications per year: 0–50
Offered interviews: 76–100%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Interviews

6 dates, 25 Jan – 2 Feb 2027virtual

Vancouver, 13 teaching sites

Program website CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

About six months of dedicated research time within the standard 4-year pediatrics residency, without extending training.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
A separate PGY1 match for a single research-track position each year, launched in 2024.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

This is a 4-year UBC pediatrics residency track based at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, with mandatory community time around the province each year.
The Research Track takes one resident per year and provides about six months of dedicated research time without extending training.
Interviews are virtual, combining the Vancouver MMI with an additional traditional interview specific to the track.

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.
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This is complemented by mandatory time spent each year in community practices and hospitals around the province where residents gain valuable and unique learning opportunities.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

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

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

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

Where you train

Vancouver, British Columbia: 13 teaching sites.

British Columbia Children's Hospital
British Columbia Women's Hospital
Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children
Royal Inland Hospital (Kamloops · rural or distributed site)
Victoria General Hospital (Victoria · rural or distributed site)
Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)
University Hospital of Northern BC (Prince George · rural or distributed site)
Langley Memorial Hospital (Langley)
Lions Gate Hospital (North Vancouver)
Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
Abbotsford Regional Hospital (Abbotsford)
Kelowna General Hospital (Kelowna · rural or distributed site)

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Nanaimo Regional Hospital (Nanaimo · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 3 of 13, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 5; no published record for 5.

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: CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Feb 2022 As of 31 Oct 2026. At British Columbia Children's Hospital, British Columbia Women's Hospital.
Clinical record: MEDITECH Expanse, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026. At Royal Inland Hospital, Kelowna 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.

British Columbia Children's Hospital

Matched to BC Children's Hospital (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 7,396
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 1,910

British Columbia Women's Hospital

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

Royal Inland Hospital

Matched to Royal Inland Hospital (Kamloops) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 10,812
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 2,914

Show facts for 9 more sites

Victoria General Hospital

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

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

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

University Hospital of Northern BC

Matched to University Hospital of Northern British Columbia (Prince George) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 4,520
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 1,127

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

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

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

Kelowna General Hospital

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

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 15,707
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 4,090

Nanaimo Regional Hospital

Clinical record: IHealth (Cerner electronic health record), fully electronic record since 2016 As of 31 Oct 2026

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

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 9,004
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 2,040

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
Moderatefor the specialty here, 2025–2027

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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
Return of service: Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match): 25, 26, 28 and 29 Jan 2027; 1 and 2 Feb 2027
Format: Virtual
Traditional (one on one/two on one)
MMI or rotating station

Info sessions

The 1 session listed for 2027 has passed.

All 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
Level	Annual 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

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)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews	What changed
CMG stream	1	4 years	6 dates, 25 Jan – 2 Feb 2027Virtual	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG streamResearch Track - Pediatrics	1	5 years	2 dates, 13–22 Jan 2026

The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description

The UBC Pediatrics Research Track offers one resident per year a unique opportunity to enhance research skills and explore academic interests during their 4-year pediatric residency.
This specialized track provides substantial research opportunities while maintaining full clinical training requirements, allowing residents to develop academic capacity without extending their training.

Research: Substantial research time with mentorship, including approximately 6 months dedicated to research throughout residency.
Training setting: Training occurs primarily at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, with rotations across multiple pediatric sites in British Columbia, including tertiary and community hospitals.
Teaching approach: Competence by Design (CBD) curriculum with a focus on progressive independence, research skill development, and scholarly pursuits integrated with comprehensive clinical training.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: CaRMS score
Research portfolio
Medical Student Performance Record
Personal letter
References
CASPer test
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 director: Dr. Melissa Chan
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Program office: Program Assistant
Write to the officepediatrics.residency@ubc.ca
“For questions not covered on CaRMS site contact:” · 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. Site staff and other contacts are listed there too.

Program websiteWebsite CANPREPP This program on CaRMS

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 27 Aug 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 35436 · 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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