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Montreal - Family Medicine - Palliative Care

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
2 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, 18 teaching sites16 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

Also at Montréal, applied for at the school: Soins palliatifs - programme de 3 mois (formation supplémentaire) (Palliative care, 3 months), on Montréal’s page of programs applied for at the school · residents and practising physicians · no dates published (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 communication-skills rotation with personalized feedback from a psychologist, about nine 2-hour sessions per year.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Year-long exposure to medical assistance in dying, including following patients requesting MAID and ethics reflection.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Required pediatric palliative care rotation at CHU Sainte-Justine or a pediatric palliative care home.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Training combines university hospitals, community hospitals, home care and palliative care residences in the Montreal area.
  • Residents complete a research or scholarly project during a dedicated full-time period and have three elective periods.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Mixed settings
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • Longitudinal / integrated
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
Training language
French

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Unité de soins palliatifs et de consultations hospitalières (3)
  • Recherche ou projet d’érudition (1)
  • Soins à domicile (1)
  • Soins palliatifs pédiatriques (1)
  • Hémato-oncologie ou radio-oncologie (1)
  • Options (stages adaptés aux besoins du résident) (3)
  • Maisons de soins palliatifs (1)
  • Stage intégré de soins palliatifs en hôpital communautaire (2)

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Unité de soins palliatifs et consultations hospitalières en centre hospitalier (3)
  • Recherche ou projet d’érudition (1)
  • Soins à domicile (1)
  • Soins palliatifs pédiatriques (1)
  • Hémato-oncologie ou radio-oncologie (1)
  • Options (stages adaptés aux besoins du résident) (3)
  • Maisons de soins palliatifs (1)
  • Stage intégré de soins palliatifs en hôpital communautaire (2)
  • stage longitudinal sur les habiletés de communication

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

Where you train

Montreal, Quebec: 18 teaching sites16 teaching sites.

  • Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal (CHUM) (Montréal)
  • Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR) (Montréal)
  • Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal (HSCM) (Montréal)
  • Maison Victor-Gadbois (MVG) (Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil)
  • Maison St-Raphaël 6005 (MSR) (Montréal)
  • Maison Teresa-Dellar (MTD) (Kirkland)
  • Maison Source Bleue (MSB) (Boucherville)
  • Hôpital Marie-Clarac (Montréal)
  • Centre hospitalier de Verdun (CHV) (Verdun)
  • Hôpital Santa-Cabrini (S-C) (Montréal)
  • Hôpital Pierre-Boucher (HPB) (Longueuil)
  • Hôpital Jean-Talon (HJT) (Montréal)
Show all 18 sites
  • CIUSSS du Nord-De-l'Île-de-Montréal (Montréal)
  • CIUSSS de l'Est-De-l'Île-de-Montréal (Montréal)
  • CIUSSS Centre-Sud-Ouest-De-l'Île-de-Montréal (Montréal)
  • Centre hospitalier universitaire Ste-Justine (HSJ) (Montréal)
  • La Phare Enfants et Famille (Montréal)
  • Cité de la Santé de Laval (CSL) (Laval)
  • Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal (CHUM) (Montréal)
  • Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR) (Montréal)
  • Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal (HSCM) (Montréal)
  • Maison Victor-Gadbois (MVG) (Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil)
  • Maison St-Raphaël 6005 (MSR) (Montréal)
  • Maison Teresa-Dellar (MTD) (Kirkland)
  • Centre hospitalier de Verdun (CHV) (Verdun)
  • Hôpital Santa-Cabrini (S-C) (Montréal)
  • Hôpital Pierre-Boucher (HPB) (Longueuil)
  • Hôpital Jean-Talon (HJT) (Montréal)
  • CIUSSS du Nord-De-l'Île-de-Montréal (Montréal)
  • CIUSSS de l'Est-De-l'Île-de-Montréal (Montréal)
Show all 16 sites
  • CIUSSS Centre-Sud-Ouest-De-l'Île-de-Montréal (Montréal)
  • Centre hospitalier universitaire Ste-Justine (HSJ) (Montréal)
  • La Phare Enfants et Famille (Montréal)
  • Cité de la Santé de Laval (CSL) (Laval)

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 1 of 18; no published record for 17.

Hospital facts

10 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.

Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal (CHUM)

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

Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR)

Matched to Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 26,902 · 2026–2027: 29,102
Licensed beds
physical health 507 · geriatrics 28 · neonatology 26

Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal (HSCM)

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
Show facts for 7 more sites

Hôpital Marie-Clarac

Matched to Hôpital Marie-Clarac (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Licensed beds
physical health 228

Centre hospitalier de Verdun (CHV)

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

Hôpital Santa-Cabrini (S-C)

Matched to Hôpital Santa Cabrini (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 15,441 · 2026–2027: 15,611
Licensed beds
physical health 305 · geriatrics 18

Hôpital Pierre-Boucher (HPB)

Matched to Hôpital Pierre-Boucher (Longueuil) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 23,690 · 2026–2027: 24,579
Licensed beds
physical health 334 · psychiatry 35 · neonatology 15

Hôpital Jean-Talon (HJT)

Matched to Hôpital Jean-Talon (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 16,759 · 2026–2027: no row in the file
Licensed beds
physical health 131 · psychiatry 30 · geriatrics 25

Centre hospitalier universitaire Ste-Justine (HSJ)

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

Cité de la Santé de Laval (CSL)

Matched to Hôpital de la Cité-de-la-Santé (Laval) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 35,279 · 2026–2027: 36,310
Licensed beds
physical health 438 · psychiatry 51

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

    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

  • Dr(e) Jean-Nicolas Moncion

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Program office

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.

Département de médecine de famille et de médecine d'urgence - Programme de compétences avancées(opens in a new tab)Site Admission Faculté médecine Université de Montréal(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Palliative Care elsewhere

Nearest to Montreal

Source

The Regular stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 15 Jul 2026 · The Particular stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 15 Jul 2026 · FM/ES 2027 match.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 34555 (Regular stream), 34553 (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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