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Vancouver - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

University of British ColumbiaVancouver, British ColumbiaCMG stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
3 positions
Length
5 years
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
76–100%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Info session

details info sessions of this program

Tue 10 Nov 2026,5:00–6:00 pm PST

Interviews

2 dates, 22 Jan – 5 Feb 2027virtual

Vancouver, 13 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

Program website(opens in a new tab)Instagram(opens in a new tab)X(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

  • Weekly protected research half-day for all residents from PGY2 to PGY5, alongside academic half-day.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Optional participation in a longitudinal division-run outreach clinic in Whitehorse, Yukon.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • PGY1 residents get a protected half-day in physiatry clinics to support mentorship and prevent burnout.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • UBC PMR is a 5-year Royal College residency admitting up to 3 residents per year.
  • Training is based at GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre in Vancouver, with mandatory time at Holy Family Hospital, in Victoria and in the Fraser Health Authority.
  • Residents complete a required research or QI project, with a protected weekly research half-day from PGY2 to PGY5.

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
Optional rural rotation
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • Physiatry (Transition to Discipline · 2 blocks · GFS)
  • CTU (Foundations · 3 blocks · VGH/SPH/BCCH)
  • Plastic Surgery (Foundations · 1 block · VGH/SPH)
  • Neuropsychiatry (Foundations · 1 block · UBC)
  • Geriatrics (Foundations · 1 block · VGH/RCH)
  • Neurosurgery (Foundations · 1 block · VGH)
  • Spine Surgery (Foundations · 1 block · VGH)
  • Medical elective (Foundations · 1 block · VGH/SPH)
  • Rheumatology (Foundations · 2 blocks · VGH/SPH)
  • Neurology (Foundations · 3 blocks · VGH/SPH)
  • Ortho Trauma (Foundations · 1 block · RCH)
  • Elective (Foundations · 1 block)
  • Pain Medicine (Core · 2 blocks · Community/SPH)
  • Intro to Spasticity/EDX (Core · 2 blocks · GFS)
  • Cardiac Rehab (Core · 1 block · SPH)
  • NMS Rehab (Core · 3 blocks · GFS)
  • ABI Rehab (Core · 3 blocks · GFS)
  • SCI Rehab (Core · 4 blocks (2 junior and 2 senior) · GFS)
  • Stroke Rehab (Core · 3 blocks · GFS/HFH)
  • MSK Rehab (Core · 1 block · HFH)
  • Sports Medicine (Core · 2 blocks · Community)
  • Orthotics & Prosthetics (Core · 3 blocks · GFS/HFH/Victoria)
  • Pediatric Rehab (Core · 3 blocks · GFS/BCCH/Sunny Hill)
  • EMG (Core · 3 blocks · GFS/VGH)
  • FHA Community Rehabilitation/General Physiatry or Nanaimo (Transition to Practice · 2 blocks · Community/QPH/NRGH)
  • Senior Resident Clinic (Transition to Practice · Longitudinal · GFS)
  • Electives (Transition to Practice · Variable)

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

Where you train

Vancouver, British Columbia: 13 teaching sites; optional rural rotation.

  • G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre
  • Vancouver General Hospital
  • U.B.C. Hospital
  • St. Paul's Hospital
  • Holy Family Hospital
  • BC Children's Hospital
  • Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children
  • Queen's Park Hospital
  • Royal Columbian Hospital
  • Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Nanaimo · rural or distributed site)
  • Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria (Victoria · rural or distributed site)
  • Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)
Show all 13 sites
  • Community-based physiatry offices

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 1 of 13, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 6; no published record for 6.

Hospital facts

8 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 Nov 2022 As of 31 Oct 2026. At Vancouver General Hospital, U.B.C. 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.

Vancouver General Hospital

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

U.B.C. Hospital

Matched to UBC Health Sciences Centre Hospital in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
7,983
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,043

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 5 more sites

BC Children's Hospital

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

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

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

Nanaimo Regional General 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

Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria

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

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.

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

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
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)
22 Jan 2027; 5 Feb 2027
Format
Virtual
  • MMI or rotating station

Info sessions

  • Tue 10 Nov 2026

    5:00–6:00 pm PST

    Info session · Virtual

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 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 (as the program states it)
Home call · frequency “one week per month”
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 stream35 years2 dates, 22 Jan – 5 Feb 2027VirtualNothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG streamVancouver - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation35 years2 dates, 23 Jan – 6 Feb 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The UBC Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation program is a 5-year Royal College accredited residency training program in Vancouver.
  • The program provides comprehensive training to develop skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary for a rewarding career in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, with a focus on tailoring individual resident training across subspecialty areas and academic pursuits.
Research
Residents have protected half-day per week for research from PGY2-5, with expectations to develop a research project, present at research days, and aim for publication.
Training setting
Training occurs across multiple urban hospitals and rehabilitation centers in Vancouver and British Columbia, with primary training at G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre. Residents experience diverse clinical settings including academic medical centers, community hospitals, and outreach clinics.
Teaching approach
Education is emphasized over service, with a competency-based approach focusing on progressive independence, direct observation, and in-the-moment feedback. The program uses Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) to guide resident assessments.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • CV review
  • Elective experiences
  • Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
  • Personal letter
  • Reference letters
  • Research/scholarly activities
  • Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI)
  • Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs)

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
Program office

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

Program websiteWebsiteInstagramXCANPREPPCANPREPPdescribes call, describes academic half-dayFrom the programUBC PMR Youtube Video(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation elsewhere

Nearest to Vancouver

In these collections:

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 35824 · 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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