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Vancouver Island - Radiation Oncology

University of British ColumbiaVancouver Island, British ColumbiaCompetitive RoS streamNew for 2027

At a glance

Approx. quota
1 position
Length
Not stated on CaRMS page
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
51–75%

Competitive RoS stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · this stream · 3 years

Interviews

1 date, 22 Jan 2027Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Vancouver Island, 6 teaching sites

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

What stands out about this program

  • Residents train mainly in Victoria; the only rotation that must be done in Vancouver is pediatrics, with housing and travel funded.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • This UBC Radiation Oncology stream bases residents at the Victoria Cancer Centre for most of their training, with 2027 marking the first cohort of the full 5-year position.
  • Pediatric Radiation Oncology is the only mandatory rotation in Vancouver, with PGME funding for housing and travel.
  • The stream carries a return-of-service obligation to work in BC for 3 years, outside the Vancouver Centre.

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
Offered · research project
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.

  • Pediatric Radiation Oncology (Vancouver)

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

Where you train

Vancouver Island, British Columbia: 6 teaching sites.

  • BC Cancer- Victoria Cancer Center (VIC) (Victoria)
  • Vancouver Cancer Centre (Vancouver)
  • Fraser Valley Cancer Centre (Surrey)
  • Abbotsford Cancer Centre (Abbotsford)
  • Cancer Centre for the Southern Interior (Kelowna)
  • Cancer Centre for the North (Prince George)

Record systems at the listed sites: no published record for 6 of 6.

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 · 3 years
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)
22 Jan 2027
Format
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

Info sessions planned, dates not published yet.

7 Radiation Oncology 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.

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
PGY-6
$106,953 / year
PGY-7
$113,940 / 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

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 websiteWebsiteThis program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Radiation Oncology elsewhere

Nearest to Vancouver Island

  • Vancouver - Radiation OncologyUniversity of British Columbia

    Vancouver · 173 km

    3 positions · CMG

  • Calgary - Radiation OncologyUniversity of Calgary

    Calgary, AB · 821 km

    2 positions · CMG

  • Edmonton - Radiation OncologyUniversity of Alberta

    Edmonton, AB · 930 km

    2 positions · CMG

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 36961 · 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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