Vancouver - Radiation Oncology

University of British ColumbiaVancouver, British ColumbiaCMG stream

Approx. quota: 3 positions
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: 0–50
Offered interviews: 51–75%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Interviews

1 date, 21 Jan 2027virtual

Vancouver, 8 teaching sites

Program website Instagram CANPREPP profile CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

A dedicated Resident Research Coordinator meets residents regularly to help with project screening, methodology and publication.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Resident-to-faculty ratio of 1:2 at the Vancouver Cancer Centre.
From “Additional information” on the CaRMS page

The UBC Radiation Oncology program is a 5-year residency based at BC Cancer's Vancouver Centre, with the basic clinical year completed at St. Paul's Hospital or Royal Columbian Hospital.
Residents spend at least one month at another BC Cancer site in Victoria, Surrey, Abbotsford, Prince George or Kelowna.
All residents complete at least one scholarly project and present research annually.

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

What training looks like

Setting: Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure: Not stated on CaRMS page
Research: Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Radiation Oncology (Transition to Discipline · first two blocks)
general internal medicine (Foundations)
general surgery (Foundations)
sub-specialty medicine (including medical oncology) (Foundations)
sub-specialty surgery (Foundations)
palliative medicine (Foundations)
radiology (Foundations)
pathology (Foundations)
Physics rotation (Core)
community rotation (at least one month · one of the other BC Cancer sites (Victoria, Surrey, Abbotsford, Prince George or Kelowna))

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

Where you train

Vancouver, British Columbia: 8 teaching sites.

BC Cancer- Vancouver Cancer Center (VCC)
St. Paul's Hospital
Royal Columbian Hospital
Fraser Valley Cancer (Surrey · rural or distributed site)
Abbotsford Cancer Centre (Abbotsford · rural or distributed site)
Vancouver Island Cancer (Victoria · rural or distributed site)
Cancer Centre for the Southern Interior (Kelowna · rural or distributed site)
Cancer Centre for the North (Prince George · rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: MEDITECH at 1 of 8, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1; no published record for 6.

Hospital facts

2 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.

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.

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): 21 Jan 2027
Format: Virtual
Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

Info sessions planned, dates not published yet.

7 Radiation Oncology info sessions at other programs 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 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	3	5 years	1 date, 21 Jan 2027Virtual	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG stream	3	5 years	2 dates, 5–6 Feb 2026

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

The UBC Radiation Oncology Residency Program offers comprehensive training in radiation oncology, providing residents with excellent clinical exposure, research opportunities, and mentorship.
Located in Vancouver, the program emphasizes a collegial learning environment with strong provincial connections and a focus on developing well-rounded radiation oncology specialists.

Research: Residents complete at least one scholarly project, with support from a dedicated Resident Research Coordinator and access to BC Cancer Research Centre databases.
Training setting: Training occurs primarily at BC Cancer - Vancouver Cancer Center, with rotations at multiple cancer centers across British Columbia including Vancouver, Surrey, Victoria, Kelowna, and Prince George.
Teaching approach: Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, emphasizing comprehensive clinical skills development, research scholarship, and preparation for independent practice.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Medical school transcripts
Research portfolio
Personal letter
Reference letters
Clinical rotation feedback
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. Michael Peacock
Michael.Peacock@bccancer.bc.ca
(604) 877 6000 ext 672006
Faculty profile of Dr. Michael Peacock(opens in a new tab)
Source: surgery.med.ubc.ca · checked Oct 2026
Program office: Program Administrator
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.

Program websiteWebsite CANPREPPCANPREPPdescribes academic half-dayFrom the programThis program on CaRMS

Radiation Oncology elsewhere

Nearest to Vancouver

Vancouver Island - Radiation OncologyUniversity of British Columbia
Vancouver Island · 173 km
1 position · Competitive RoS
Calgary - Radiation OncologyUniversity of Calgary
Calgary, AB · 673 km
2 positions · CMG
Edmonton - Radiation OncologyUniversity of Alberta
Edmonton, AB · 818 km
2 positions · CMG

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 36482 · 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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