Québec - Family Medicine - Palliative Care

Université LavalQuébec, Quebec

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

Approx. quota: Regular stream3 positions
Particular stream1 position
Length: 1 year
Applications per year: 0–50
Offered interviews: 76–100%

Regular stream

Particular stream

Interviews

1 date, 6 Nov 2026virtual

Québec, 7 teaching sites

CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Optional continuity family-medicine clinic, up to a half-day weekly, in the resident's own GMF-U.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Six-day integrated continuing-education program in palliative care at Maison Michel-Sarrazin.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Year ends with a formal written and oral examination.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

This one-year palliative care enhanced-skills program trains physicians to provide primary and consultation palliative care services.
Of 13 periods, 11 are mandatory, including 8 periods of palliative care, home palliative care, psycho-oncology and radiation/medical oncology, plus 2 elective periods.
Training takes place at CHU de Québec sites, Maison Michel-Sarrazin and other Québec-area centres.
Residents must complete a supervised scholarly project with a half-day per week released.

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

What training looks like

Setting: Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure: Not stated on CaRMS page
Research: Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
Training language: French

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

Psycho-oncologie (Stages cliniques obligatoires · 1 période)
Radio-oncologie / oncologie médicale (Stages cliniques obligatoires · 1 période)
Soins palliatifs (Stages cliniques obligatoires · 8 périodes)
Soins palliatifs à domicile (Stages cliniques obligatoires · 1 période)
Prolongement de stages obligatoires (Stages à options)
Soins palliatifs Hôtel-Dieu-de-Lévis (Stages à options · Hôtel-Dieu-de-Lévis)
Soins palliatifs pédiatriques (Stages à options)
Clinique de la douleur (Stages à options)
Stage région (Stages à options)
Médecine universitaire (Stages à options)

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

Where you train

Québec, Quebec: 7 teaching sites.

CHU de Québec (Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, CHUL)
Maison Michel-Sarrazin
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec
Hôpital Jeffery Hale
CLSC La Source
CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches (Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis) (Lévis)
CIUSSS de la Côte-Nord (rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: no published record for 7 of 7.

Hospital facts

4 sites · public figures where the province publishes them

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.

CHU de Québec (Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, CHUL)

This name covers 5 hospitals in the province’s lists. Each is shown on its own, A to Z, and the numbers are never added together.

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

Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec

Matched to Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 12,268 · 2026–2027: 13,015
Licensed beds: physical health 338

Hôpital Jeffery Hale

Matched to Hôpital Jeffery Hale (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Licensed beds: physical health 15 · geriatrics 16

Show facts for 1 more sites

CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches (Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis)

Matched to Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis (Lévis) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 30,011 · 2026–2027: 31,265
Licensed beds: physical health 208 · psychiatry 70 · geriatrics 20 · neonatology 8

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 Québec

People
549,459residents, 2021 Census
Municipality of Québec
Housing
2.4%rental vacancy rate
October 2025 survey, Québec, Quebec (census metropolitan area)
Winter and summer
−11.3 °CJanuary mean20.0 °CJuly mean
1991–2020 normals, Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 4.2 km away
Job outlook
not published for this specialty

More about Québec (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

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match): 6 Nov 2026
Format: Virtual
Panel

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

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 PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
Level	Annual salary
PGY-3	$70,890 / 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

Contacts and links

Program director: Dr(e) Virginie Audet CroteauDirectrice du programme
virginie.audet-croteau.med@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Program office: Conseiller à la gestion des études, Équipe Admission, Vice-décanat aux études médicales postdoctorales - Université Laval
Write to the officesecteur1empd@fmed.ulaval.ca

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.

Programme de compétences avancées en soins palliatifs This program on CaRMS

Family Medicine - Palliative Care elsewhere

Nearest to Québec

Sherbrooke - Family Medicine - Palliative CareUniversité de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke · 165 km
2 positions · Regular
Montreal - Family Medicine - Palliative Care, MontréalUniversité de Montréal
Montreal · 233 km
Regular, Particular
Montreal - Family Medicine - Palliative Care, McGillMcGill University
Montreal · 233 km
4 positions · Regular, Particular
Bilingual

Source

The Regular stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 14 Jul 2026 · The Particular stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 15 Jul 2026 · FM/ES 2027 match.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 34646 (Regular stream), 34540 (Particular stream) · How these pages are made ›

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 8 Oct 2026.

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