Québec - Internal Medicine
Université LavalQuébec, QuebecRegular stream
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 37
- Length
- 3
- Applications per year
- 201–400
- Offered interviews
- 76–100%
Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
2 dates, 26–28 Jan 2027
Québec, 13 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Option of a longitudinal first year based at Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis for at least four residents.
From “Important information” on the CaRMS page
Required general internal medicine rotations at regional sites, chosen from seven available sites in remote regions.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
- This is a three-year core internal medicine program at Université Laval, delivered across multiple sites including tertiary subspecialty settings.
- Residents complete three periods of general internal medicine in regional sites during the second and third years.
- At least four first-year residents complete a longitudinal first year at Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis.
Based on what the program says about itself.
- You’re open to training at sites across a region, not at one hospital.
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What training looks like
- Setting
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Regional community
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Focus areas
- Longitudinal / integrated
- Research
- Offered · research project
- Training language
- French
By year
- PGY-1
- Cardiologie3 périodes
- Unité d'enseignement clinique de médecine interne2 périodes
- Pneumologie2 périodes
- Unité de soins intensifs2 périodes
- Gastroentérologie2 périodes
- Gastroentérologie ou neurologie2 périodes
- Neurologie2 périodes
- Stage clinique de nuit1 période
- Progression vers la discipline1 période
- PGY-2
- Trois stages à option d'une période chacun3 périodes
- Unité d'enseignement de médecine interne2 périodes
- Infectiologie2 périodes
- Néphrologie2 périodes
- Oncologie/Hématologie2 périodes
- Gastroentérologie ou neurologie2 périodes
- Unité de soins intensifs2 périodes
- Médecine interne en région1 période
- Gériatrie1 période
- endocrinologie1 période
- Stage clinique de nuit1 période
- PGY-3
- Unité d'enseignement clinique de médecine interne2 périodes
- Consultations en médecine interne2 périodes
- Médecine interne en région2 périodes
- Infectiologie2 périodes
- Néphrologie2 périodes
- Oncologie/Hématologie2 périodes
- Deux stages à option d'une période chacun2 périodes
- Gériatrie1 période
- endocrinologie1 période
- Unité de soins intensifs1 période
- Stage clinique de nuit1 période
Where you train
Québec, Quebec: 13 teaching sites.
- CHU de Québec (Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu de Québec; CHUL; Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus; Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement; Hôpital St-François-D'Assise)
- CHAU - Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis (Lévis)
- IUCPQ - Hôpital Laval
- CSSS Baie-des-Chaleurs (rural or distributed site)
- CSSS de Beauce (rural or distributed site)
- CSSS région de Thetford (rural or distributed site)
- CSSS Rivière-du-Loup (Rivière-du-Loup · rural or distributed site)
- CSSS de Sept-Iles (Sept-Iles · rural or distributed site)
- CSSS Montmagny-L'Islet (rural or distributed site)
- Hôpital Le Royer, Baie-Comeau (Baie-Comeau · rural or distributed site)
- Centre Anti-Poison du Québec
- Maison Michel-Sarrazin (Soins palliatifs)
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- Centre hospitalier de Rimouski-Neigette (Rimouski · rural or distributed site)
Distributed across a region
Record systems at the listed sites: Cristal-Net at 2 of 13; no published record for 11.
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.
CHU de Québec (Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu de Québec; CHUL; Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus; Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement; Hôpital St-François-D'Assise)
- Clinical record
- Cristal-Net (dossier clinique informatisé), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Clinical record
- Cristal-Net (DCI), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
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
CHAU - Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis
- Clinical record
- DCI Cristal-Net, system named (how far it goes is not stated)
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 30,011 · 2026–2027: 31,265
- Licensed beds
- physical health 208 · psychiatry 70 · geriatrics 20 · neonatology 8
IUCPQ - Hôpital Laval
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 12,268 · 2026–2027: 13,015
- Licensed beds
- physical health 338
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Hôpital Le Royer, Baie-Comeau
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 8,883 · 2026–2027: 8,858
- Licensed beds
- physical health 53 · psychiatry 15 · geriatrics 18
Centre hospitalier de Rimouski-Neigette
- Emergency visits
- 2025–2026: 12,321 · 2026–2027: 12,663
- Licensed beds
- physical health 170 · psychiatry 34 · geriatrics 15 · 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
- Other file component(s)
- Return of service
- Not required · this stream
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (2027 match)
- 26 and 28 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.
16 Internal 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 |
Call
- Call (as the program states it)
- In-house call · night float
- 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
Open after round 1 in 1 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 1 of 9 years.
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| Year | Open after round 1 | Open after round 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | not available | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 11 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab) | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 positions open after round 2 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab) |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
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 | 37 | 3 years | 2 dates, 26–28 Jan 2027 |
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2026 match
| Stream | Positions | Length | Interviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular stream | 34 | 5 years | 2 dates as the CaRMS page writes them |
The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
- The Université Laval Internal Medicine Residency Program offers comprehensive three-year training across multiple hospital sites, providing residents with extensive exposure to tertiary medical specialties.
- The program emphasizes diverse clinical experiences, including regional hospital rotations and a strong focus on patient-centered care and medical competencies.
- Research
- Residents are required to associate with a clinical researcher for a three-year research project, with annual presentations and potential research awards.
- Training setting
- Training occurs across multiple urban and regional hospital sites in Quebec, including tertiary care centers, community hospitals, and regional healthcare facilities.
- Teaching approach
- The program follows a Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) approach, focusing on progressive skill acquisition, frequent formative evaluations, and learner-centered development.
- Enhanced skills
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- What the program looked at
- Clinical stage evaluations
- Annual multiple-choice written exam
- Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
- Research project
- Interview performance
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr(e) Isabelle KirouacDirectrice du programme
- Program office
Équipe Admission, Vice-décanat aux études médicales postdoctorales - Université Laval, Agente de gestion des études
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.
Internal Medicine elsewhere
Nearest to Québec
- Bilingual
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