Montreal - Internal Medicine
Université de MontréalMontreal, QuebecRegular stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 45
- Length
- 3
- Applications per year
- 201–400
- Offered interviews
- 51–75%
Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
1 date, 27 Jan 2027
Montreal, 15 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Residents change their base hospital in third year to vary clinical exposure.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Three mandatory regional periods across the three years, in centres such as Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan.
From “Training sites” on the CaRMS page
- This is a three-year French-language internal medicine core program at Université de Montréal, based mainly at CHUM, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur and Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont.
- Residents are attached to one hospital for the first two years and are invited to change base hospital in third year.
- Three regional periods are mandatory, including Trois-Rivières or Shawinigan, and a one-month research rotation is required in second year.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Regional community
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Research
- Required · research project · protected time
- Training language
- French
By year
- PGY-2
- Dermatologie1-2 périodes / spécialité
- Hépatologie1-2 périodes / spécialité
- Allergie-immunologie1-2 périodes / spécialité
- Oncologie1-2 périodes / spécialité
- PGY-3
- Unité d’enseignement clinique3 périodes
- Soins ambulatoires3 périodes
- Consultations2 périodes
- Mois de nuit1 période
- Oncologie (à compter de l’année 2021-2022)1 période
- Neurologie1 période
- Région1 période
- Soins intensifs ou soins ambulatoires1 période / spécialité
- Recherche (avec approbation du responsable de la recherche)1 période supplémentaire
- Dermatologie
- Hépatologie
- Allergie
- Immunologie clinique
- Oncologie
- Médecine obstétricale (capacités d’accueil limitées)
- Médecine vasculaire (capacités d’accueil limitées)
Other rotations
- Stage en région (1 ère année) (R1 – R2 · 1 période · Trois-Rivières)
- Deux périodes de mois de nuit (soit une période en R1 et une période en R2) (R1 – R2 · 2 périodes · CHUM – HMR - HSC)
- Unité d’enseignement (2+2) (R1 – R2 · 4 périodes · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
- Stage de médecine interne en région (2 e année) (R1 – R2 · 1 période · Shawinigan, Trois-Rivières)
- Endocrinologie (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM - HMR - HSC)
- Gériatrie (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM - HMR - HSC)
- Cardiologie (dont 1 période à l’UC) (R1 – R2 · 2 périodes · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
- Pneumologie (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
- Néphrologie (R1 – R2 · 2 périodes · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
- Neurologie (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM – HMR - HSC)
- Gastroentérologie (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
- Hématologie (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
- Rhumatologie (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM – HMR - HSC)
- Maladies infectieuses (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
- Soins intensifs (période 8 à 13 de la 1 ère année, et une période au cours de la 2 e année) (R1 – R2 · 2 périodes · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
- Recherche (2 e année) (R1 – R2 · 1 période · CHUM – HMR – HSC)
Where you train
Montreal, Quebec: 15 teaching sites.
- Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) (Montréal)
- Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR) (Montréal)
- Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal (HSCM) (Montréal)
- Institut de Cardiologie (Montréal)
- CHU Ste-Justine (Montréal)
- Le Gardeur
- Hôpital Notre-Dame du CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal (Montréal)
- Trois-Rivières (Trois-Rivières · rural or distributed site)
- Shawinigan (Shawinigan · rural or distributed site)
- St-Jérôme (St-Jérôme · rural or distributed site)
- Jonquière (Jonquière · rural or distributed site)
- Drummondville (Drummondville · rural or distributed site)
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- Granby (Granby · rural or distributed site)
- Chicoutimi (Chicoutimi · rural or distributed site)
- Rouyn (Rouyn · rural or distributed site)
Record systems at the listed sites: DCi-ChartMaxx at 1 of 15, Epic at 3, TELUS at 1; no published record for 10.
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.
- Clinical record
- Epic: Dossier santé numérique (DSN), fully electronic record since May 2026
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
- 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
Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR)
- 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)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 27,285 · 2026–2027: no row in the file
- Licensed beds
- physical health 420 · geriatrics 20
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CHU Ste-Justine
- Clinical record
- DCi-ChartMaxx (dossier clinique informatisé), fully electronic record since May 2014
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 27,172 · 2026–2027: 27,007
- Licensed beds
- physical health 333 · psychiatry 19 · neonatology 66
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.
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
Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027
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. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
- IMG requirements
- Recent clinical experience (within 4 years)
- Observerships don’t count as clinical experience
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (2027 match)
- 27 Jan 2027
- Format
- Virtual
- MMI or rotating station
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.
16 Internal Medicine info sessions at other programsAll info sessions
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-1 | $58,728 / year |
| PGY-2 | $64,809 / year |
| PGY-3 | $70,890 / year |
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
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
Past matches
Open after round 1 in 1 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 1 of 9 years.
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| Year | Open after round 1 | Open after round 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | not available | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 7 positions open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab) | 3 positions open after round 2 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab) |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
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.
Year by year
2027 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 45 | 3 years | 1 date, 27 Jan 2027 |
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2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 47 | 5 years | 2 dates as the CaRMS page writes them |
The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
- The Université de Montréal's Internal Medicine Common Trunk program offers a robust training experience with the most diverse clinical exposure in Quebec.
- With a population base of over one million inhabitants and a teaching faculty of more than 500 professors, residents receive cutting-edge medical expertise and clinical exposure across multiple specialized settings.
- Research
- Mandatory one-month research stage in second year, with optional second month possible. Epidemiology and research ethics courses provided.
- Training setting
- Training occurs primarily in three major hospitals: CHUM, Sacré-Cœur Hospital, and Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, with additional rotations possible at other clinical sites including regional hospitals.
- Teaching approach
- The program emphasizes competency-based medical education, progressive independence, and holistic patient-centered care, focusing on developing physicians who demonstrate exceptional interprofessional, academic, and clinical competencies.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- Clinical rotation evaluations
- Curriculum vitae
- Multiple Mini Interview (MMI)
- Research portfolio
- Support form from clinical supervisor
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr(e) Marie Pier ArsenaultDirecteur de programme
- Program office
Secrétaire du programme
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.
Internal Medicine elsewhere
Nearest to Montreal
- Bilingual
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