Québec - Emergency Medicine
Université LavalQuébec, QuebecRegular stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 4
- Length
- 5
- Applications per year
- 51–200
- Offered interviews
- 51–75%
Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
1 date, 1 Feb 2027
Québec, 11 teaching sites · required rural rotation
What stands out about this program
Three training profiles: clinician-scholar/master's, certificate/structured scientific project, or clinical expertise niche.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Dedicated emergency rotation focused on vulnerable populations.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
- Université Laval's emergency medicine program lasts five years and is based mainly at CHU de Québec hospitals.
- Required rotations include point-of-care ultrasound, toxicology, and an emergency rotation in a remote region.
- Residents must complete a research project or equivalent, and they choose from three training profiles.
- Interviews are virtual.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Rural / remote
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation
- Focus areas
- POCUS curriculum
- Research
- Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
- Training language
- French
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- Urgence (Progression vers la discipline · 2 périodes)
- Urgence intégrée (Progression vers la discipline)
- Orthopédie (Fondements de la médecine d'urgence)
- ORL (Fondements de la médecine d'urgence)
- Ophtalmologie (Fondements de la médecine d'urgence)
- Stage de nuit (compétences transversales) (Fondements de la médecine d'urgence)
- Urgence pédiatrique (Fondements de la médecine d'urgence)
- Consultation de cardiologie (Fondements de la médecine d'urgence)
- Urgence (Fondements de la médecine d'urgence · 3 périodes)
- Échographie ciblée au chevet (Fondements de la médecine d'urgence)
- Anesthésie (Maitrise de la discipline · 2 périodes)
- Plastie (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Préhospitalier/Sinistre (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Toxicologie (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Unité coronarienne (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Traumatologie en centre tertiaire (Maitrise de la discipline · 2 périodes)
- Chirurgie traumatologie aiguë (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Urgence et urgence érudition (Maitrise de la discipline · 9-12 périodes selon le profil choisi)
- Urgence mineure (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Urgence pédagogie (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Urgence réanimation (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Urgence pédiatrique (Maitrise de la discipline · 2 périodes)
- Urgence psychiatrique (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Urgence gériatrique (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Périnatalité (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Soins intensifs adultes (Maitrise de la discipline · 2 périodes)
- Soins intensifs pédiatriques (Maitrise de la discipline · 2 périodes)
- Stages optionnels (Maitrise de la discipline · 3 à 5 selon le profil choisi)
- Option : Neurologie ou neurochirurgie (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Option : discipline liée aux soins intensifs (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Urgence Populations vulnérables (Maitrise de la discipline)
- Urgence gestion et efficience (Transition à la pratique)
- Urgence intégrée (Transition à la pratique · 3 périodes)
- Urgence supervision longitudinale (Transition à la pratique · 2 périodes)
- Urgence gestion longitudinale (Transition à la pratique · 2 périodes)
- Urgence en région éloignée (Transition à la pratique)
- Urgence érudition ou stage de pointe clinique (Transition à la pratique · 5 périodes, selon le profil choisi)
Where you train
Québec, Quebec: 11 teaching sites; required rural rotation.
- Hôpital de l'Enfant Jésus
- CHUL centre mère-enfant
- Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise
- Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
- Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement
- Institut Universitaire de cardiologie et pneumologie de Québec
- Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis (Lévis)
- Centre Anti-Poison du Québec
- CISSS de Lanaudière (rural or distributed site)
- Hôpital St-Georges (rural or distributed site)
- CISSS Bas Saint-Laurent: secteur Matapédia (rural or distributed site)
Record systems at the listed sites: Cristal-Net at 8 of 11; no published record for 3.
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
- Cristal-Net (DCI), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Clinical record
- DCI Cristal-Net, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Hôpital de l'Enfant Jésus
- Clinical record
- Cristal-Net (dossier clinique informatisé), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 25,968 · 2026–2027: 26,733
- Licensed beds
- physical health 335
CHUL centre mère-enfant
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 28,705 · 2026–2027: 29,528
- Licensed beds
- physical health 296 · neonatology 56
Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 16,696 · 2026–2027: 17,516
- Licensed beds
- physical health 254
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Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 9,117 · 2026–2027: 9,533
- Licensed beds
- physical health 262 · hôtellerie 63
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 15,123 · 2026–2027: 15,641
- Licensed beds
- physical health 111
Institut Universitaire de cardiologie et pneumologie de Québec
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 12,268 · 2026–2027: 13,015
- Licensed beds
- physical health 338
Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 30,011 · 2026–2027: 31,265
- Licensed beds
- physical health 208 · psychiatry 70 · geriatrics 20 · neonatology 8
CISSS de Lanaudière
- Clinical record
- DCI Cristal-Net, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Hôpital St-Georges
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 18,152 · 2026–2027: 17,425
- Licensed beds
- physical health 120 · psychiatry 25 · geriatrics 10 · neonatology 5
About Québec
People
549,459residents, 2021 Census
Housing
2.4%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
−11.3 °CJanuary mean20.0 °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 required · this stream
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (2027 match)
- 1 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.
14 Emergency 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 |
| 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 | 4 | 5 years | 1 date, 1 Feb 2027 |
|
2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 3 | 5 years | 1 date as the CaRMS page writes it |
The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
- The Université Laval Emergency Medicine Specialized Residency Program is a comprehensive 5-year training program designed to develop highly competent emergency physicians.
- The program focuses on clinical excellence, research, teaching, and management skills, preparing residents to work in academic or regional medical centers.
- Research
- Residents must complete a research project or equivalent, with three potential profiles: clinician-scholar, certificate/structured scientific project, or clinical expertise focus.
- Training setting
- Urban academic medical centers in Quebec City, including multiple hospital sites such as CHU de Québec, Institut Universitaire de cardiologie et pneumologie de Québec, and various regional hospitals.
- Teaching approach
- Integrated CanMEDS competency framework with a focus on competence-based medical education, progressive independence, and holistic physician development across clinical, academic, and administrative domains.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- Structured recommendation letters
- Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
- Curriculum Vitae
- Motivation letter
- Interview performance
- Clinical rotation evaluations
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr(e) Marie-Pier LanoueDirectrice du programme
- Program office
Équipe Admission, Vice-décanat aux études médicales postdoctorales - Université Laval
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.
Emergency Medicine elsewhere
Nearest to Québec
- Bilingual
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