Calgary - Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
University of CalgaryCalgary, AlbertaCompetitive stream
Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match
Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 3
- Length
- 1
- Applications per year
- 0–50
- Offered interviews
- 76–100%
Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
1 date, 3 Nov 2026
Calgary, 14 teaching sites · required rural rotation
What stands out about this program
Required rotation on the Eden Valley reserve combining family medicine and addiction medicine.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Inner-city rotations at the Alex and CUPS, plus a longitudinal CUPS clinic.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Longitudinal teaching of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills groups.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
- This is a one-year Calgary addiction medicine enhanced skills program for PGY-2 family medicine residents and re-entry family physicians, who train as PGY-3 residents.
- Rotations include three months at the Calgary Opioid Dependency Program, inpatient addiction consult work at Foothills Medical Centre and Peter Lougheed Centre, and inner-city medicine at the Alex and CUPS.
- Residents also complete a one-month rural rotation in Southern Alberta and a rotation on the Eden Valley reserve.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Urban community
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Rural / remote
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation
- Focus areas
- Underserved urban
- Indigenous health
- Research
- Offered · research project · protected time
- Training language
- English
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- opioid agonist maintenance (Buprenorphine, Methadone, and Slow Release Oral Morphine) (3-month · Calgary Opioid Dependency Program)
- withdrawal management (Detoxification) (a week · Renfrew Recovery Centre detox)
- inpatient hospital addiction consult team (3 rotations · Foothills Medical Centre, Peter Lougheed Centre)
- chronic pain management (2-week · Chronic Pain Centre)
- inner city medicine (1-month · the Alex)
- inner city medicine (3-week · CUPS)
- Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinic (2-week · Recovery Alberta Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinic)
- family medicine and addiction medicine (1 rotation · Eden Valley reserve)
- electives related to the field of Addiction Medicine (2 four-week rotations)
- research rotation (1-week)
- Longitudinal clinic (CUPS)
- Longitudinal DBT skills group teaching
Where you train
Calgary, Alberta: 14 teaching sites; required rural rotation.
- Renfrew Recovery Centre
- Calgary Opioid Dependency Program
- Chronic Pain Centre
- Rapid Access Addiction Medicine
- The Alex Community Health Centre
- Calgary Opioid Deprescribing Program
- Foothills Medical Centre
- Adolescent Addiction Treatment (Foothills Addiction Centre Adolescent Program)
- Foothills Addiction Centre Concurrent Disorders Outpatient program
- Rockyview General Hospital
- Peter Lougheed Centre
- South Health Campus
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- Claresholm Centre of Mental Health and Addiction Concurrent Disorders Inpatient Program (Claresholm · rural or distributed site)
- CUPS Calgary
Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 4 of 14; no published record for 10.
Hospital facts
What official sources say for hospitals named above, each with its source and the date we read it. 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
- Epic (Connect Care), fully electronic record since Nov 2024
Hospital size and activity: Alberta doesn't publish this as open data.
About Calgary
People
1,306,784residents, 2021 Census
Housing
4.9%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
−7.6 °CJanuary mean16.9 °CJuly mean
Job outlook
not published for this specialty
How they choose
- Application file components
- CV
- Electives
- Examinations
- Extra-curricular
- Leadership skills
- MSPRs
- Personal letters
- Reference documents
- Research/Publications
- Transcripts
- Other file component(s)
- Return of service
- Not stated on CaRMS page
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
- 3 Nov 2026
- Format
- Virtual
- Traditional (one on one/two on one)
- Panel
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-3 | $80,058 / year |
Call
- Call (provincial max)
- 1 in 4 in-house
- Post-call rule (provincial)
- No new responsibilities after the 24th hour of duty, apart from handover
- Max continuous duty (provincial)
- 24 consecutive hours, plus 2 hours for handover
Benefits
- Annual vacation
- 4 weeks/yr
- Call Stipends
- weekday in-house – $118.02weekend in-house / holiday – $178.72weekday home call – $59.01weekend home call / holiday – $89.35
- CMPA dues paid
- $1,500
- Dental plan
- 75% premium paid
- Educational leave
- 14 days paid leave
- Extended health insurance
- 75% premium paid$1000 per year Flexible Spending Account*
- Life insurance
- 100% towards $150,000 coverage
- Life Support Course Costs (Program Approved
- 100% paid
- Long-term disability insurance
- 100% paid for 75% gross income
- Maternity Leave
- 18 weeks total (17 weeks paid to match 90% of salary when combined with EI)
- Parental Leave
- 2 weeks leave with full pay and benefits;52 weeks (inclusive of Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leaves) – unpaid leave
- Practice Stipend
- $1,500
- Provincial dues (% of salary)
- .95%
- Sick leave
- Up to 3 months or to end contract paid leave, whichever occurs first
- Statutory holidays
- Paid days. Additional days off are given if resident works the day before and part of a named holiday.
Contacts and links
- Program directors
Dr. Meera Grover
Dr. Sarah Elliott
- Program office
Program Administrator, Enhanced Skills Team Lead
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.
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