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Montreal - Family Medicine - Care of the Elderly

Université de MontréalMontreal, Quebec

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
3 positions
Not stated on CaRMS page
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
76–100%

Regular stream

Particular stream

Interviews

1 date, 20 Oct 2026virtual

Montreal, 8 teaching sites7 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

Also at Montréal, applied for at the school: Programme de compétences avancées en soins aux personnes âgées (trois mois) (Care of the elderly, 3 months), on Montréal’s page of programs applied for at the school · residents and practising physicians · date unclear on the school’s page (as of 10 Oct 2026)

Not through CaRMS: you apply to Montréal, on its own dates. Confirm on the school’s page before you apply.

What stands out about this program

  • Longitudinal family-practice continuity clinic one day every two weeks throughout the year.

    From “Selection criteria” on the CaRMS page

  • Choice of a 12-month advanced-competence or 3-month upskilling format.

    From “General instructions” on the CaRMS page

  • This care of the elderly enhanced-skills program for family physicians lasts one year, with a three-month option also offered.
  • Training is based at the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, with rotations at CHUM, Centre hospitalier de Verdun and the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal.
  • Residents keep a family-medicine continuity clinic one day every two weeks and choose four 4-week elective rotations.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • family_practice_continuity
Research
Offered · research project
Training language
French

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • UCDG (deux périodes · IUGM, CHUM, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal)
  • URFI (une période · IUGM)
  • Gérontopsychiatrie en milieu hospitalier (une période · IUGM)
  • Soins de longue durée (une période · IUGM)
  • Cliniques externes spécialisées (deux périodes · IUGM)
  • Gérontopsychiatrie (ambulatoire) (une période · Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSSM))
  • Consultations gériatriques (urgence et étage) (une période · Centre hospitalier de Verdun)
  • Stages optionnels (4 stages de 4 semaines · Au choix (voir ci-bas))
  • Stage longitudinal (13 périodes (une journée par deux semaines) · Prise en charge et visites à domicile)
  • Soins palliatifs (Stages optionnels)
  • Soins à domicile (Stages optionnels)
  • Clinique de la douleur (Stages optionnels)
  • Recherche (Stages optionnels)
  • Clinique des troubles du mouvement (Stages optionnels)
  • Pédagogie médicale (Stages optionnels · CPASS)
  • Symptômes comportamentaux et psychologiques de la démence (SCPD) (Stages optionnels)
  • Consultations en gériatrie (Stages optionnels · HSCM)
  • Hospitalisation unité de soins aux personnes âgées (Stages optionnels · Hôpital Notre-Dame)
  • UCDG (Stages optionnels · Cité de la Santé (Laval))

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • UCDG (une période · CHUM Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal)
  • Soins post-aïgus (une période · IUGM)
  • URFI (une période · IUGM)
  • Gérontopsychiatrie en milieu hospitalier (une période · IUGM)
  • Soins de longue durée (une période · IUGM)
  • Cliniques externes spécialisées (deux périodes · IUGM)
  • Gérontopsychiatrie clinique (une période · Institut universitaire de santé mentale de Montréal)
  • Consultations gériatriques (urgence et étage) (une période · Centre hospitalier de Verdun)
  • Stages optionnels (4 stages de 4 semaines · Au choix (voir ci-bas))
  • Stage longitudinal (13 périodes (une journée par deux semaines) · Prise en charge en cabinet OU CHSLD ET six visites à domicile)

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

Where you train

Montreal, Quebec: 8 teaching sites7 teaching sites.

  • Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM) (Montréal)
  • CHUM (Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal) (Montréal)
  • Centre hospitalier de Verdun (Montréal)
  • Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (Montréal)
  • Hôpital Sacré Coeur de Montréal (Montréal)
  • Centre d'hébergement Notre Dame de la Merci (Montréal)
  • Hôpital Notre Dame (Montréal)
  • UCDG Cité de la Santé (Laval) (Laval)
  • Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM) (Montréal)
  • CHUM (Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal) (Montréal)
  • Centre hospitalier de Verdun (Montréal)
  • Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSSM) (Montréal)
  • Hôpital Sacré Coeur de Montréal (Montréal)
  • Centre d'hébergement Notre Dame de la Merci (Montréal)
  • Hôpital Notre Dame (Montréal)

Record systems at the listed sites, all streams: no published record for 9 of 9.

Hospital facts

7 sites · public figures where the province publishes them

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

  • 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.
  • 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.

Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM)

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

Licensed beds
geriatrics 67

CHUM (Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal)

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

Centre hospitalier de Verdun

Matched to Hôpital de Verdun (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 17,664 · 2026–2027: 18,044
Licensed beds
physical health 244
Show facts for 4 more sites

Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal

Matched to Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 2,256 · 2026–2027: 2,194
Licensed beds
physical health 20 · psychiatry 267

Hôpital Sacré Coeur de Montréal

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

Centre d'hébergement Notre Dame de la Merci

Matched to Centre d'Hébergement Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Licensed beds
geriatrics 18

Hôpital Notre Dame

Matched to Hôpital Notre-Dame (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 15,709 · 2026–2027: 15,697
Licensed beds
physical health 224 · psychiatry 38 · geriatrics 34

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

    not published for this specialty

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
  • 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

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
20 Oct 2026
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

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 PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$70,890 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

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

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

Contacts and links

Program director
Program office

adjointe à l'enseignement universitaire

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. Site staff and other contacts are listed there too.

Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal(opens in a new tab)Le Guide médical en soins de longue durée(opens in a new tab)Programme de compétences avancées en soins aux personnes âgées(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Care of the Elderly elsewhere

Nearest to Montreal

Source

The Regular stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 17 Jul 2026 · The Particular stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 17 Jul 2026 · FM/ES 2027 match.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 34570 (Regular stream), 34644 (Particular stream) · 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 8 Oct 2026.

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