Montreal - Ophthalmology

Université de MontréalMontreal, QuebecRegular stream

Approx. quota: 5 positions
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: 0–50
Offered interviews: 26–50%

Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Interviews

1 date, 19 Jan 2027virtual

Montreal, 5 teaching sites

Program website CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

One-to-one teaching: a single faculty member usually supervises a single resident in clinic and surgery.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Residents attend the TORIC basic science course in Toronto and the Wills Eye review course in Philadelphia.
From “FAQ” on the CaRMS page

This is a 5-year French-language ophthalmology residency whose first year consists mostly of internal medicine, plastic surgery and 3 ophthalmology periods.
Core years take place mainly at CHUM and Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, with pediatric ophthalmology at CHU Sainte-Justine.
Residents must complete at least one research project, with 5% of residency time allocated to it.

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

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-1: ophtalmologie générale3 périodes
urgence1 période
stage de nuit en médecine interne et à l'urgence1 période
dermatologie1 période
rhumatologie1 période
endocrinologie1 période
sciences de base en ophtalmologieToronto1 période
Chirurgie plastique
microbiologie
neurologie
PGY-2: segment antérieur (cornée) et urgence5 périodes
glaucome et urgence5 périodes
oculoplastie1 période
ophtalmologie pédiatrique et strabisme (initiation)1 période
ophtalmologie généraleune période
chirurgie réfractiveune semaine
PGY-3: rétine/uvéite/oncologie oculaire
ophtalmologie pédiatrique & strabisme
neuro-ophtalmologie
PGY-4: chirurgie de la cataracte
chirurgie du glaucome
du segment postérieur
de la cornée
oculoplastie
strabisme
stage en régionEstrie
PGY-5: Histopathologie oculaire2 périodes
ophtalmologie pédiatrique et strabisme2 périodes
oculoplastie2 périodes
ophtalmogie communautairel'hôpital SacréCoeur1 période
basse vision1 semaine
cours de révision (Wills' Eye Institute)une semaine

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

Where you train

Montreal, Quebec: 5 teaching sites.

CHUM (Montréal)
Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (Montréal)
CHU Sainte-Justine (Montréal)
Hôpital Sacré-Coeur (Montréal)
Campus Trois-Rivieres (Trois-Rivières · rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: DCi-ChartMaxx at 1 of 5, Epic at 1, TELUS at 1; no published record for 2.

Hospital facts

4 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.

CHUM

Clinical record: OACIS (dossier clinique informatisé), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

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

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

CHU Sainte-Justine

Clinical record: DCi-ChartMaxx (dossier clinique informatisé), fully electronic record since May 2014 As of 31 Oct 2026

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

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Hôpital Sacré-Coeur

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

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
Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

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
Return of service: Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match): 19 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.

10 Ophthalmology info sessions at other programs All info sessions

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 the 5 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
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

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

Past matches

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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.

Source: CaRMS’s lists of positions open after round 1 and after round 2, as read in October 2026 (latest: 2026 round 1 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab), 2026 round 2 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews	What changed
Regular stream	5	5 years	1 date, 19 Jan 2027Virtual	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
Regular streamMontreal - Ophtalmologie	5	5 years	Interviews not stated

The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description

A comprehensive 5-year ophthalmology residency program at the Université de Montréal, offering extensive training across all ophthalmic subspecialties.
The program emphasizes one-on-one learning with professors and provides diverse clinical experiences across multiple university-affiliated hospitals.

Research: Residents must complete at least one research project during their five-year program, with strong encouragement for peer-reviewed publication.
Training setting: Training occurs across multiple university-affiliated hospitals in Montreal, including CHUM, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, CHU Sainte-Justine, and Hôpital Sacré-Coeur, with potential rotation in Trois-Rivières.
Teaching approach: Competency-based medical education with a focus on progressive independence, comprehensive skill development, and individualized learning through one-on-one supervision.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Pre-clinical grades
Clinical evaluations
Research and publications
Manual skills
Extracurricular activities
Reference letters
Motivation letter
Ophthalmology and elective rotations

Positions, length and interviews as each match’s CaRMS pages stated them; what changed from our comparison of the two matches and our readings of the 2027 pages.

Contacts and links

Program director: Dr(e) Emilie Goodyear
CaRMS lists no email for the 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.

Program websiteWebsite This program on CaRMS

Ophthalmology elsewhere

Nearest to Montreal

Montreal - Ophthalmology, McGillMcGill University
Montreal · 0 km
5 positions · Regular
Bilingual
Sherbrooke - OphthalmologyUniversité de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke · 131 km
2 positions · Regular
Québec - OphthalmologyUniversité Laval
Québec · 233 km
3 positions · Regular

In these collections:

Programs taught in French or bilingually

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 1 Sep 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 35984 · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

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 24 Oct 2026.

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