Saint-François-d'Assise - Family Medicine
Université LavalSaint-François-d'Assise, QuebecRegular stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 15
- Length
- 2
- Applications per year
- 401–600
- Offered interviews
- 76–100%
Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
5 dates, 19–26 Jan 2027
Saint-François-d'Assise, 25 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Only in-hospital family medicine teaching unit (GMF-U) in the Laval network.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Offers a post-residency 'Transition à la pratique' advanced-skills program described as unique in Canada.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
- This two-year Université Laval family medicine program is based at the GMF-U Saint-François d'Assise, located inside Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise in Québec's Limoilou neighbourhood.
- Training is longitudinal, with hospital and regional rotations of 2 to 4 weeks integrated alongside ongoing clinic activity.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Regional community
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Focus areas
- Longitudinal / integrated
- Research
- Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project
- Training language
- French
- Enhanced skills
- Other
- Emergency Medicine
- Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Palliative Care
- Care of the Elderly
- Clinician Scholar / Research
- Maternity and Newborn Care
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- Fondation à la médecine de famille (période de transition) (A)
- Pratique ambulatoire au GMF-U, urgence et médecine hospitalière, rencontres avec les professionnels de la santé (A)
- Urgence (B · 4 semaines)
- Médecine familiale + médecine interne (B · 2 semaines)
- Périnatalité (C · 4 semaines)
- Médecine familiale + pédiatrie (C · 2 semaines)
- Stage à option 1 (D · 4 semaines)
- Médecine familiale + région (D · 2 semaines)
- Stage clinique de nuit (E · 4 semaines)
- Médecine familiale + région (E · 2 semaines)
- Stage de médecine hospitalière (F · 4 semaines)
- Médecine familiale + équité en santé (F · 2 semaines)
- Stage à option 2 (G · 4 semaines)
- Médecine familiale + région (G · 2 semaines)
- Soins aux personnes âgées et soins palliatifs (H · 4 semaines)
- Médecine familiale + santé mentale (H · 2 semaines)
Where you train
Saint-François-d'Assise, Quebec: 25 teaching sites.
- GMF-U Saint-François d'Assise (Québec)
- CHUL: Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval (Québec)
- HDQ: Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (Québec)
- HDL: Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis (Lévis)
- HEJ: Hôpital l'Enfant-Jésus (Québec)
- HSS: Hôpital St-Sacrement (Québec)
- IUCPQ: l'Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (Québec)
- Amqui (Amqui · rural or distributed site)
- Baie-Comeau (Baie-Comeau · rural or distributed site)
- Blanc-Sablon (Blanc-Sablon · rural or distributed site)
- Chandler (Chandler · rural or distributed site)
- Chibougamau (Chibougamau · rural or distributed site)
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- Gaspé (Gaspé · rural or distributed site)
- Havre-Saint-Pierre (Havre-Saint-Pierre · rural or distributed site)
- Îles de la Madeleine (Îles de la Madeleine · rural or distributed site)
- Kuujjuaq (Kuujjuaq · rural or distributed site)
- Les Escoumins (Les Escoumins · rural or distributed site)
- Matane (Matane · rural or distributed site)
- Rimouski (Rimouski · rural or distributed site)
- Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac (Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac · rural or distributed site)
- Trois-Pistoles (Trois-Pistoles · rural or distributed site)
- Sept-Îles (Sept-Îles · rural or distributed site)
- Rivière-du-Loup (Rivière-du-Loup · rural or distributed site)
- Baie St-Paul (Baie St-Paul · rural or distributed site)
- Thetford Mines (Thetford Mines · rural or distributed site)
Record systems at the listed sites: Cristal-Net at 6 of 25; no published record for 19.
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)
CHUL: Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 28,705 · 2026–2027: 29,528
- Licensed beds
- physical health 296 · neonatology 56
HDQ: Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 9,117 · 2026–2027: 9,533
- Licensed beds
- physical health 262 · hôtellerie 63
HDL: Hôpital 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
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HEJ: Hôpital 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
HSS: Hôpital St-Sacrement
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 15,123 · 2026–2027: 15,641
- Licensed beds
- physical health 111
IUCPQ: l'Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 12,268 · 2026–2027: 13,015
- Licensed beds
- physical health 338
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
- Other file component(s)
- Return of service
- Not required · this stream
- IMG requirements
- Recent clinical experience (within 4 years)
- Observerships don’t count as clinical experience
- “Pour les candidats DIM, l’entrevue est complétée par 3 ECOS (Examen Clinique Objectif et Structuré) de 10 minutes chacun permettant d’évaluer la capacité clinique.”
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (2027 match)
- 19, 20, 21, 22 and 26 Jan 2027
- Format
- Virtual
- Traditional (one on one/two on one)
- 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.
59 Family Medicine info sessions at other programsAll info sessions
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-1 | $58,728 / year |
| PGY-2 | $64,809 / year |
Call
- Call (as the program states it)
- In-house call · frequency “une fin de semaine par période”
- 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
After residency
Family doctors in Quebec are paid fee-for-service today. A new model, which pays for enrolled patients, visits and hours worked, is agreed but not in force yet. Every family doctor in the public plan needs a compliance notice (avis de conformité) for a territory in the medical-staffing plan (PTEM, formerly PREM), or a waiver that stands in for it. Compare provinces
Year by year
2027 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 15 | 2 years | 5 dates, 19–26 Jan 2027 |
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2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 16 | 2 years | 5 dates as the CaRMS page writes them |
The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
- The Université Laval Family Medicine Residency Program aims to train comprehensive family physicians capable of providing high-quality, continuous healthcare across various settings.
- The program emphasizes leadership, scholarship, and collaboration, with training across 13 diverse clinical sites in urban and rural environments.
- Research
- Includes scholarly projects, quality improvement initiatives, and optional research-focused tracks like Clinician Scholar
- Training setting
- Urban and rural clinical settings in Quebec City, including 7 hospitals and multiple Group Medical Practices (GMF-U), with a focus on diverse patient populations and comprehensive healthcare delivery.
- Teaching approach
- Competency-based medical education emphasizing progressive independence, reflective practice, and holistic patient-centered care across the CanMEDS roles.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- CProMF exam
- Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
- Medical transcripts
- Optional personal letter
- Clinical experience
- Interview performance
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr(e) Samuel Boudreault
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
- 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.
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