Montreal - Nuclear Medicine
Université de MontréalMontreal, QuebecRegular stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 2
- Length
- 5
- Applications per year
- 0–50
- Offered interviews
- 51–75%
Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
1 date, 2 Feb 2027
Montreal, 7 teaching sites
Summary
- The Université de Montréal nuclear medicine residency is a 5-year (65-period) program with a common-trunk R1 year, a junior R2 year and senior R3–R5 years.
- Training takes place in the major hospitals of the Université de Montréal network, with a therapy rotation recommended at the CHUQ in Québec City.
- Residents must be able to work in a French-speaking environment, and interviews are virtual.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Research
- Offered · research project
- Training language
- French
By year
- PGY-1
- Progression vers la discipline1
- Cardiologie clinique1
- Orthopédie oncologique1
- Urologie pédiatrique1
- Stage de garde de nuit1
- Oncologie médicale2
- Médecine interne - Unité d'enseignement clinique1
- Oncologie radiologique1
- Oncologie pédiatrique1
- Pneumologie1
- Introduction à la radiologie1
- Rhumatologie1
- PGY-2
- Os et urgence3
- Générale Junior 12
- Générale Junior 24
- Cardiologie nucléaire junior3
- TEP1
Other rotations
- Cardiologie nucléaire senior (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 2 · ICM, CHUM)
- Générale senior (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 4 · CHUM)
- Générale senior (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 2 · HSC)
- Générale senior (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 2 · HMR)
- Thérapie (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 2 · CHUM, CHUQ)
- Neurologie (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 2 · CHUM)
- Pédiatrie nucléaire (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 2 · HSJ)
- Recherche (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 1)
- TEP (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 8 · CHUM, HMR)
- Imagerie axiale Thorax (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 2 · Réseau UdeM)
- Imagerie axiale Abdo-pelvien (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 2 · Réseau UdeM)
- Imagerie axiale Tête et cou (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 1 · Réseau UdeM)
- Imagerie axiale Musculosquelettique (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 1 · Réseau UdeM)
- Stage à option général sénior ou thérapie (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 1 · Stage à option générale sénior (CHUM) ou thérapie (CHUM))
- Stage à options (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 6 · Au choix)
- Stage d’intégration (R5) (Senior (R3-R4-R5) · 1)
Where you train
Montreal, Quebec: 7 teaching sites.
- Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) (Montréal)
- Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (Montréal)
- Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal (Montréal)
- Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal (Montréal)
- CHU Sainte-Justine (Montréal)
- Hôpital Cité-de-la-santé de Laval (Laval)
- CHUQ (Québec)
Record systems at the listed sites: Cristal-Net at 1 of 7, DCi-ChartMaxx at 1, Epic at 2, TELUS at 1; no published record for 2.
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
- 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
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 27,285 · 2026–2027: no row in the file
- Licensed beds
- physical health 420 · geriatrics 20
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Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 8,656 · 2026–2027: 8,991
- Licensed beds
- physical health 153
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
Hôpital Cité-de-la-santé de Laval
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 35,279 · 2026–2027: 36,310
- Licensed beds
- physical health 438 · psychiatry 51
CHUQ
- Clinical record
- Cristal-Net (dossier clinique informatisé), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Clinical record
- Cristal-Net (DCI), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval (Québec)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 28,705 · 2026–2027: 29,528
- Licensed beds
- physical health 296 · neonatology 56
Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus (Québec)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 25,968 · 2026–2027: 26,733
- Licensed beds
- physical health 335
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement (Québec)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 15,123 · 2026–2027: 15,641
- Licensed beds
- physical health 111
Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise (Québec)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 16,696 · 2026–2027: 17,516
- Licensed beds
- physical health 254
L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (Québec)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 9,117 · 2026–2027: 9,533
- Licensed beds
- physical health 262 · hôtellerie 63
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
- Return of service
- Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (2027 match)
- 2 Feb 2027
- Format
- Virtual
- Panel
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.
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 | 2 | 5 years | 1 date, 2 Feb 2027 | Nothing noted |
2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 2 | 5 years | 2 dates as the CaRMS page writes them |
The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
- The Nuclear Medicine Residency Program at Université de Montréal is a comprehensive 5-year postdoctoral training program designed to develop specialized nuclear medicine physicians.
- The program follows the Royal College's Competence by Design framework and provides extensive clinical training across multiple hospital sites in Montreal.
- Research
- Research rotation available, with opportunities for academic and research-oriented training
- Training setting
- Urban academic medical centers in Montreal, including multiple major teaching hospitals with diverse clinical environments and patient populations.
- Teaching approach
- Follows CanMEDS framework, emphasizing not just medical expertise but also professional competencies like collaboration, communication, health advocacy, and continuous learning.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- Academic performance
- Reference letters
- Interview performance
- Leadership skills
- Communication abilities
- Motivation for nuclear medicine
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr(e) Peter George Maliha
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
- Program office
Administrateur
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.
Nuclear Medicine elsewhere
Nearest to Montreal
- Bilingual
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