Vancouver - Plastic Surgery

University of British ColumbiaVancouver, British ColumbiaCMG stream

Approx. quota: 2 positions
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: 51–200
Offered interviews: 0–25%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Interviews

1 date, 1 Feb 2027virtual

Vancouver, 15 teaching sites

Program website Instagram CANPREPP profile CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

PGY-5 residents work in a resident cosmetic clinic for about six months, evaluating and operating on patients.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

UBC Plastic Surgery is a five-year residency with about 18 months of core surgical foundation time followed by plastic surgery training.
Training takes place mainly at Vancouver hospitals, and PGY-4 includes a two-block community rotation in Kelowna.
Residents complete one research project or review per year in PGY-3 to PGY-5 for presentation at the UBC Resident Research Day.

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

What training looks like

Setting: Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community
Rural exposure: Not stated on CaRMS page
Research: Required · research project

By year

PGY-1: plastic surgery2 months
orthopaedics2 months
emergency medicine1 month
internal medicine1 month
general surgery oncology1 month
general surgery trauma1 month
paediatric plastic surgery1 month
crash course1 month
neurosurgery1 month
vascular1 month
otolaryngology1 month
PGY-2: Plastic surgery6 blocks
Intensive care2 blocks
Burns2 blocks
Oculoplastics1 block
Dermsurgery1 block
Community plastic surgery1 block
PGY-3: Adult plastic surgery4 blocks
Hand surgery3 blocks
Burns2 blocks
Paediatric Plastic Surgery1 block
Elective1 block
Ambulatory1 block
Community Plastic Surgery1 block
PGY-4: Adult plastic surgery7 blocks
Pediatric plastic surgery2 blocks
Plastic surgery Kelowna (Community)Kelowna2 blocks
Elective1 block
Cosmetic surgery1 block
PGY-5: Adult plastic surgery9 blocks
Paediatric plastic surgery2 blocks
Ambulatory1 block
Transition to Practice1 block

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

Where you train

Vancouver, British Columbia: 15 teaching sites.

Vancouver General Hospital
UBC Hospital
British Columbia Children's Hospital
St. Paul's Hospital
Mount St. Joseph's Hospital
Private offices and surgery centres of attending staff
Private Surgical Centres (Lower Mainland)
Kelowna General Hospital (Kelowna · rural or distributed site)
Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
Okanagan Plastic Surgery Centre (Kelowna · rural or distributed site)
Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Nanaimo · rural or distributed site)
North Island Hospital (Campbell River · rural or distributed site)

Show all 15 sites

Lion's Gate Hospital (North Vancouver)
Fraser Valley Hospitals (Lower Mainland)
Richmond General Hospital (Richmond)

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 2 of 15, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 8; no published record for 5.

Hospital facts

11 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, UBC Hospital.
Clinical record: CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Nov 2019 As of 31 Oct 2026. At St. Paul's Hospital, Mount St. Joseph's 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

UBC 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

British Columbia 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

Show facts for 8 more sites

St. Paul's Hospital

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

Mount St. Joseph's Hospital

Matched to Mount Saint Joseph Hospital (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 15,711
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 4,233

Kelowna General Hospital

Clinical record: MEDITECH Expanse, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

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

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

North Island Hospital

This name covers 2 hospitals in the province’s lists. Each is shown on its own, A to Z, and the numbers are never added together.

North Island Hospital Campbell River and District (Campbell River)

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 2,628
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 664

North Island Hospital Comox Valley (Courtenay)

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 7,417
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 1,923

Lion's 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

Richmond General Hospital

Clinical record: CST Cerner, fully electronic record since Jun 2024 As of 31 Oct 2026

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

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 6,446
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 1,680

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
Goodfor 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): 1 Feb 2027
Format: Virtual
Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

None listed on the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) (read 20 Oct 2026) or on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026). Programs add sessions through the fall.

4 Plastic Surgery info sessions at other programs All info 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
Level	Annual 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)).

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	2	5 years	1 date, 1 Feb 2027Virtual	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG stream	2	6 years	Interviews not stated

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

The University of British Columbia Plastic Surgery Residency Program is dedicated to training confident, capable, and well-rounded plastic surgeons.
Residents graduate with comprehensive skills to manage the full scope of plastic surgery across diverse clinical sites, supported by a collegial and mentorship-driven learning environment.

Research: Residents are encouraged to conduct one research project per year, with a focus on clinical research and presentation at UBC Resident Research Day.
Training setting: Training occurs across multiple urban hospitals and medical centers in Vancouver and British Columbia, including academic medical centers, children's hospitals, and community hospitals.
Teaching approach: Trainee-coach relationship focused on motivated adult learning, emphasizing hands-on clinical experience, progressive responsibility, and continuous feedback through Competency By Design.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: CV review
Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
Reference letters
Personal letter
Electives experience
Interview performance
Leadership skills
Research/publications

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. Esta BovillDirector, Post Graduate Education
Faculty profile of Dr. Esta Bovill(opens in a new tab)
Special Interests
Plastic Surgery
Source: surgery.med.ubc.ca · checked Oct 2026
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Program office: Administrative Manager, Sr. Program Assistant
Email on the CaRMS page(opens in a new tab)

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 CANPREPPCANPREPP UBC Department of Surgery This program on CaRMS

Plastic Surgery elsewhere

Nearest to Vancouver

Calgary - Plastic SurgeryUniversity of Calgary
Calgary, AB · 673 km
3 positions · CMG
Edmonton - Plastic SurgeryUniversity of Alberta
Edmonton, AB · 818 km
3 positions · CMG
Saskatoon - Plastic SurgeryUniversity of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK · 1,198 km
2 positions · CMG

All 16 Plastic Surgery programs across Canada2027 match

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 31 Aug 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 36064 · 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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