Montreal - Neurology
Université de MontréalMontreal, QuebecRegular stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 4
- Length
- 5
- Applications per year
- 0–50
- Offered interviews
- 51–75%
Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
2 dates, 28–29 Jan 2027
Montreal, 10 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Describes itself as Quebec's largest adult neurology residency program.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Up to 20% of residency (13 periods) can be reserved for research, with an MSc neuroscience option.
From “FAQ” on the CaRMS page
- This is a 5-year adult neurology residency based at the CHUM, with other training sites including Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur and CHU Sainte-Justine.
- R1 is spent in internal medicine and R2–R5 in neurology, including a required community neurology period in Granby or Trois-Rivières.
- A research or quality project is mandatory, with a required research month at the end of R2.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Regional community
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Research
- Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
- Training language
- French
By year
- PGY-1
- spécialités de médecine interne8 périodes
- neurologie adulte3 périodes
- Médecine d'urgence
- Psychiatrie
- PGY-2
- neurologie adulte6 périodes
- disciplines connexes à la neurologie (neurochirurgie et neuroradiologie)2 périodes
- EEG2 périodes
- physiatrie1 période
- recherche1 période
- cliniques spécialisées1 période
- Clinique longitudinale du résidentune journée mensuelle à partir de P7
- PGY-3
- neurologie adulte3 périodes
- neuropédiatrie3 périodes
- périodes à option3 périodes
- neurologie vasculaire1 période
- cliniques externes spécialisées1 période
- soins palliatifs1 période
- EMG/clinique neuromusculaire1 période
- Clinique longitudinale du résidentune journée mensuelle
- PGY-4
- disciplines connexes à la neurologie (incluant 1 période de neuropathologie et 1 période de neuro-ophtalmologie)8 périodes
- neurologie adulte2 périodes
- cliniques externes spécialisées2 périodes
- neurologie vasculaire1 période
- Clinique longitudinale du résidentune journée mensuelle
- PGY-5
- stages optionnels9 périodes
- neurologie adulte2 périodes
- neurologie vasculaire1 période
- cliniques externes spécialisées1 période
- Clinique longitudinale du résidentune journée mensuelle
Other rotations
- Neuroradiologie* (2e période) (1 période · CHUM, HMR, HSCM)
- Neuropathologie* (2e période) (1 période · CHUM, HSJ)
- Neuropsychologie (1 période · CHUM, HMR)
- Soins intensifs neurologiques (1 période · CHUM, HSCM, Institut neurologique de Montréal)
- Neuropsychiatrie (1 période · CHUM)
- Neuro-oncologie (1 période · CHUM)
- Troubles du mouvement (1 période · CHUM, HSJ)
- Électrophysiologie clinique (1-9 périodes · CHUM, HMR, HSCM, HSJ)
- Stage en cliniques externes spécialisées (1- 6 périodes · CHUM, HMR, HSJ, HSCM)
- Pédagogie médicale (1 période · Université de Montréal)
- Stage de recherche (1- 12 périodes · CHUM, HMR, HSCM)
- Stage d'étude par cumul (1 période · Université de Montréal)
Where you train
Montreal, Quebec: 10 teaching sites.
- CHUM (Montréal)
- Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (Montréal)
- Hôpital Sacré-Coeur de Montréal (Montréal)
- CHU Sainte-Justine (Montréal)
- Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal (Montréal)
- Institut de cardiologie de Montréal (Montréal)
- Institut neurologique de Montréal (Montréal)
- CSSS de Trois-Rivières (Trois-Rivières · rural or distributed site)
- CSSS de Chicoutimi (Chicoutimi · rural or distributed site)
- CIUSSS de l'Estrie (Hôpital de Granby) (Granby · rural or distributed site)
Record systems at the listed sites: DCi-ChartMaxx at 1 of 10, Epic at 1, TELUS at 2; no published record for 6.
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.
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
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 26,902 · 2026–2027: 29,102
- Licensed beds
- physical health 507 · geriatrics 28 · neonatology 26
Hôpital Sacré-Coeur de Montréal
- Clinical record
- Epic: Dossier santé numérique (DSN), fully electronic record since May 2026
- 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 Sainte-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
Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal
- Licensed beds
- physical health 99
Institut de cardiologie de Montréal
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 8,656 · 2026–2027: 8,991
- Licensed beds
- physical health 153
Institut neurologique de Montréal
- Clinical record
- TELUS (Oacis), since 2006, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Licensed beds
- physical health 90
CIUSSS de l'Estrie (Hôpital de Granby)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 15,690 · 2026–2027: 16,437
- Licensed beds
- physical health 112 · psychiatry 22 · geriatrics 16
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.
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (2027 match)
- 28 and 29 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.
2 Neurology 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 |
| PGY-4 | $76,969 / year |
| PGY-5 | $83,050 / 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
No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.
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 | 4 | 5 years | 2 dates, 28–29 Jan 2027 |
|
2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 5 | 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 offers the largest neurology residency program in Quebec and one of the largest in Canada.
- The program provides extensive exposure to diverse neurological pathologies with expert faculty across all neurology subspecialties, training excellent general neurologists for population care.
- Research
- One mandatory research month, with potential for up to 12 months of research, including MSc in Neurosciences and Clinician-Researcher Program.
- Training setting
- Urban academic medical centers in Montreal, including multiple hospital sites such as CHUM, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Hôpital Sacré-Coeur, and CHU Sainte-Justine, with additional training in regional community hospitals.
- Teaching approach
- Competency-based medical education focusing on progressive skill development through four stages: Transition to Discipline, Foundations of Discipline, Mastery of Discipline, and Transition to Practice.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- Academic Performance
- Clinical Evaluations
- Motivation Letter
- Reference Letters
- Curriculum Vitae
- Interview Performance
- Research Portfolio
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr(e) Antoine Duquette
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
- Program office
Adjointe administrative
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.
Neurology elsewhere
Nearest to Montreal
- Bilingual
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