Montreal - Cardiac Surgery

Université de MontréalMontreal, QuebecRegular stream

Approx. quota: 2 positions+1 from 1 in the 2026 match
Length: 6 years
Applications per year: 0–50
Offered interviews: 76–100%

Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Interviews

1 date, 18 Jan 2027Panel

Montreal, 4 teaching sites

CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Dedicated PGY-5 rotations in TAVI and endovascular therapy, three blocks each.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

The Université de Montréal Cardiac Surgery program is a six-year Royal College-accredited residency delivered across multiple high-volume academic centres.
Training sites include the Montreal Heart Institute, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal, CHU Sainte-Justine for pediatric cardiac surgery, and CHUM.
PGY-5 includes dedicated blocks in endovascular therapy, TAVI, and ECMO/mechanical circulatory support/heart transplantation.
Functional French proficiency is required.

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 · protected time
Training language: French

By year

PGY-1: Cardiac Surgery4 blocks
Cardiology – Coronary Care Unit2 blocks
Intensive Care Unit2 blocks
Trauma Surgery2 blocks
Cardiac Anesthesia1 block
Night Float1 block
Surgical Foundations Boot Camp1 block
PGY-2: Cardiac Surgery5 blocks
Cardiac Catheterization / Hemodynamics3 blocks
Vascular Surgery3 blocks
Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia1 block
Intensive Care Night Float1 block
PGY-3: Cardiac Surgery8 blocks
Thoracic Surgery3 blocks
Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography2 blocks
PGY-4: Cardiac Surgery10 blocks
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery3 blocks
PGY-5: Cardiac Surgery5 blocks
Endovascular Therapy3 blocks
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)3 blocks
ECMO, Mechanical Circulatory Support (VAD), and Heart Transplantation2 blocks

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Adult Cardiac Surgery (Postgraduate Year 6 (PGY-6) · 13 blocks)
Interventional Radiology (Elective Rotations)
Cardiac Surgery (Elective Rotations · Université Laval)
Echocardiography (Elective Rotations)
Cardiac Anesthesia (Elective Rotations)

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

Where you train

Montreal, Quebec: 4 teaching sites.

Montreal Heart Institute (Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal – ICM) (Montréal)
Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal (CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal) (Montréal)
CHU Sainte-Justine (Montréal)
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) (Montréal)

Record systems at the listed sites: DCi-ChartMaxx at 1 of 4, Epic at 1, TELUS at 1; no published record for 1.

Hospital facts

4 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

Emergency visits. Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds. Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Montreal Heart Institute (Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal – ICM)

Matched to Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 8,656 · 2026–2027: 8,991
Licensed beds: physical health 153

Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal (CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal)

Clinical record: Epic: Dossier santé numérique (DSN), fully electronic record since May 2026 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur-de-Montréal (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 27,285 · 2026–2027: no row in the file
Licensed beds: physical health 420 · geriatrics 20

CHU Sainte-Justine

Clinical record: DCi-ChartMaxx (dossier clinique informatisé), fully electronic record since May 2014 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to CHU Sainte-Justine (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 27,172 · 2026–2027: 27,007
Licensed beds: physical health 333 · psychiatry 19 · neonatology 66

Show facts for 1 more sites

Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Clinical record: OACIS (dossier clinique informatisé), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 30,754 · 2026–2027: 32,697
Licensed beds: physical health 732 · psychiatry 38 · neonatology 10

Quebec's Dossier santé numérique is live at two regional health authorities only (Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal and Mauricie-et-Centre-du-Québec). No date is published for the other establishments. As of 31 Oct 2026

Verify with the official source: each source button opens the publisher’s own page.

Sources and licences

Contient de l'information fournie par le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec et visée par CC BY 4.0. Données modifiées. (Contains information provided by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec under CC BY 4.0. Data modified.)

About Montréal

People
1,762,949residents, 2021 Census
Municipality of Montréal
Housing
2.9%rental vacancy rate
October 2025 survey, Montréal, Quebec (census metropolitan area)
Winter and summer
−9.2 °CJanuary mean21.7 °CJuly mean
1991–2020 normals, Montreal Trudeau (Airport), 11.2 km away
Job outlook
Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Montréal (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): 18 Jan 2027
Format: Panel

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.

2 Cardiac Surgery info sessions at other programs All info sessions

Pay and call

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). One provincial scale for Quebec, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 6 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$58,728 / year
PGY-2	$64,809 / year
PGY-3	$70,890 / year
PGY-4	$76,969 / year
PGY-5	$83,050 / year
PGY-6	$89,131 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (as the program states it): In-house call · night float
Call (provincial max): 6 calls in an establishment per 28 days
Post-call rule (provincial): 8 hours of mandatory rest after a work period
Max continuous duty (provincial): 16 hours in an establishment in any 24-hour period

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Benefits

28 lines as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024: Adoption leave, Annual vacation, Assistant Resident Coordinator, and more

Adoption leave: 29 to 38 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Annual vacation: 20 days/year
Assistant Resident Coordinator: $425/month
Call Premium: $607/28 days
Conference leave: 7 days pd/year
Dental Plan: Yes, available for a fee
Exam leave: Day (s) of the exam
Extended Health Insurance: Yes
Leave for death in family: From 1 to 5 days depending on the family member
Leave of absence without pay (exceptional measure): 12 months maximum
Life insurance: Yes
Long-Term disability insurance: Yes
Maternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP*) and FMRQ **: 21 weeks95 % of salary
Meals: Reduced feeFree during on-call duty
Pager: Provided by the establishment
Parental leave (time sharing between parents): 19 to 29 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Parking: ½ of doctors’ feeFree during on-call duty
Paternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP) and FMRQ: 1 week, 100% of salary3 to 5 weeks, 100% of salary(two options)
Professional Liability Insurance****(CPMA not applicable): Yes (free)
Quebec Health Insurance Program / RAMQ***: Yes
Resident Coordinator: $583/month
Resuscitation courses and examination leave: Day of the course and of the exam, course paid
Sick leave: 9.6 days pd / yearAnd reimbursement of days not taken
Statutory and floating holidays: 13/year
Study leave: 10 days pd/year
Superior Financial Programs: Yes
Teaching Premium: $240/28 days
Wedding leave: 7 days paid + 7 days without pay

Past matches

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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
Regular stream	2	6 years	1 date, 18 Jan 2027Panel	Positions 1 → 2 from the 2026 match

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
Regular stream	1	6 years	1 date, 19 Jan 2026

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

The Cardiac Surgery Residency Program at the University of Montreal offers comprehensive training in cardiovascular disease diagnosis, surgical management, and perioperative care.
Residents benefit from a high-volume, tertiary-care environment with exposure to complex adult and pediatric cardiac cases.
The program emphasizes evidence-based practice, surgical excellence, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Research: Active clinical and fundamental research opportunities with strong emphasis on scholarly activities
Training setting: Urban medical centers in Montreal, including multiple hospitals with high-volume cardiac surgical procedures and diverse clinical environments.
Teaching approach: Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, emphasizing evidence-based practice, surgical skills development, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Academic achievements
Clinical/research experience
Electives
Examinations
Extra-curricular activities
Leadership skills
Reference letters
Research/publications
Medical student performance record

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. Marina Ibrahim
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Program office: Secrétaire du programme d'entraînement en Chirurgie Cardiaque
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.

This program on CaRMS

Cardiac Surgery elsewhere

Nearest to Montreal

Montreal - Cardiac Surgery, McGillMcGill University
Montreal · 0 km
1 position · Regular
Ottawa - Cardiac SurgeryUniversity of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON · 166 km
1 position · CMG
Québec - Cardiac SurgeryUniversité Laval
Québec · 233 km
1 position · Regular
French

In these collections:

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 25 Aug 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 35881 · 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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