Montreal - Radiation Oncology
Université de MontréalMontreal, QuebecRegular stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 2
- Length
- 5
- Applications per year
- 0–50
- Offered interviews
- 76–100%
Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
1 date, 25 Jan 2027
Montreal, 5 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Exposure to CyberKnife radiosurgery, LDR/HDR brachytherapy and intraoperative radiotherapy.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Option to do radiation oncology rotations in the McGill or Université Laval networks.
From “Training sites” on the CaRMS page
- This is a 5-year radiation oncology residency at Université de Montréal, with most required radiation oncology rotations at CHUM and Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont.
- The first year covers medicine, surgery, palliative care and radiology, and a community rotation at Laval or Charles-Lemoyne is included.
- Residents complete a research project, and most take 1 to 3 research periods.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Urban community
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Research
- Required · research project · protected time
- Training language
- French
By year
- PGY-1
- stage de transition à la discipline
- soins palliatifs
- chirurgie (ORL-oncologie, neurochirurgie, chirurgie générale ou gynéco-oncologie)
- médecine interne (oncologie, pneumologie, médecine de nuit)
- radiologie
- neuro-radiologie
- PGY-2
- stages dans des sous-spécialités de la radio-oncologie
- dosimétrie des photons
- PGY-3
- stages dans les différentes sous-spécialités de la radio-oncologie
- PGY-5
- dosimétrie en lien avec la radiochirurgie, l'irradiation pancorporelle et les autres techniques spécialisés
Other rotations
- stage en milieu communautaire (Cité de la Santé de Laval, soit à l'Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne)
- transition vers la pratique (3 à 9 mois)
Where you train
Montreal, Quebec: 5 teaching sites.
- CHUM (Montréal)
- Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR) (Montréal)
- Cité de la Santé de Laval (Laval)
- Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne
- CHU Sainte-Justine (Montréal)
Record systems at the listed sites: DCi-ChartMaxx at 1 of 5, Epic at 1, Purkinje-HM at 1, TELUS at 1; no published record for 1.
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 (HMR)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 26,902 · 2026–2027: 29,102
- Licensed beds
- physical health 507 · geriatrics 28 · neonatology 26
Cité de la Santé de Laval
- Clinical record
- Epic: Dossier santé numérique (DSN), fully electronic record since May 2026
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 35,279 · 2026–2027: 36,310
- Licensed beds
- physical health 438 · psychiatry 51
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Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne
- Clinical record
- Purkinje-HM (DCI), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 30,073 · 2026–2027: 30,629
- Licensed beds
- physical health 571
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
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)
- 25 Jan 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.
7 Radiation Oncology 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 (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, 25 Jan 2027 | Nothing noted |
2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 2 | 5 years | Interviews not stated |
The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
- The Université de Montréal Radio-oncologie program is a 5-year residency that began transitioning to Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) in 2019.
- The program is distinguished by its friendly atmosphere, diverse professional faculty, and high-quality technical platform, offering residents exposure to advanced radiotherapy techniques like CyberKnife, brachytherapy, and adaptive radiotherapy.
- Research
- Residents are required to complete a research project, which can be clinical or fundamental, leading to a publication, oral presentation, or conference poster.
- Training setting
- Training occurs primarily at CHUM and Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR) in Montreal, with additional rotations in community hospitals and pediatric oncology at CHU Sainte-Justine.
- Teaching approach
- A progressive, competency-based approach focusing on individual resident development, with increasing autonomy and responsibility throughout the 5-year program, emphasizing multidisciplinary learning and patient-centered care.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- Academic performance
- Reference letters
- CV
- Research activities
- Interview performance
- ECOS stations
- CanMEDS competencies
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr(e) Guila DelouyaDirectrice de programme
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing. Site staff and other contacts are listed there too.
Radiation Oncology elsewhere
Nearest to Montreal
- Bilingual
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