Montreal - Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
Université de MontréalMontreal, Quebec
Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match
Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 4
- Length
- 1
- Applications per year
- 0–50
- Offered interviews
- 51–75%76–100%
Regular stream
Particular stream
Interviews
1 date, 26 Oct 2026
Not stated on the Particular stream’s CaRMS page
Montreal, 5 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Residents take part in ECHO telementoring projects on hepatitis, concurrent disorders, chronic pain and Indigenous wellness.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Community placement includes the Native Friendship Centre of Montréal clinic.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Residents may sit the ISAM certification exams.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
- This 12-month addiction medicine program is based at the CHUM addiction medicine service in Montréal, a francophone hospital with a research centre.
- Training includes ambulatory, inpatient and consultation-liaison blocks, addiction psychiatry, a community placement and an 8-week scholarly block.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Urban community
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Focus areas
- Indigenous health
- Longitudinal / integrated
- Research
- Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
- Training language
- French
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- Blocs ambulatoires (9 semaines)
- Blocs hospitaliers (9 semaines)
- Blocs consultation-liaison (10 semaines)
- Bloc érudition (8 semaines · CRCHUM)
- Stage de psychiatrie des toxicomanies (4 semaines · CHUM)
- Stage communautaire en toxicomanie (4 semaines)
- Stage à option au sein du réseau de l'Université de Montréal (4 semaines)
- Stage à option hors réseau (4 semaines)
Where you train
Montreal, Quebec: 5 teaching sites.
- Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (Montréal)
- Centre de recherche du CHUM (Montréal)
- Centre d'amitié autochtone de Montréal (Montréal)
- CLSC Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (Montréal)
- Relais-méthadone: Hôpital Notre-Dame (Montréal)
Record systems at the listed sites: TELUS at 1 of 5; no published record for 4.
Hospital facts
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.
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
- Clinical record
- OACIS (dossier clinique informatisé), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 30,754 · 2026–2027: 32,697
- Licensed beds
- physical health 732 · psychiatry 38 · neonatology 10
Relais-méthadone: Hôpital Notre-Dame
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 15,709 · 2026–2027: 15,697
- Licensed beds
- physical health 224 · psychiatry 38 · geriatrics 34
About Montréal
People
1,762,949residents, 2021 Census
Housing
2.9%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
−9.2 °CJanuary mean21.7 °CJuly mean
Job outlook
not published for this specialty
How they choose
- Application file components
- Extra-curricular
- Leadership skills
- CV
- Reference documents
- MSPRs
- Examinations
- Personal letters
- Research/Publications
- Transcripts
- Electives
- Other file component(s)
- Return of service
- Not stated on CaRMS page
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match), Regular stream
- 26 Oct 2026
- Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match), Particular stream
- Not stated on the Particular stream’s CaRMS page
- Format
- Virtual
- Panel
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-3 | $70,890 / year |
Call
- 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
Benefits
- 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
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr(e) Iskra Pirija
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
- Program office
secrétaire
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.
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