Québec - Psychiatry

Université LavalQuébec, QuebecRegular stream

Approx. quota: 13 positions+2 from 11 in the 2026 match
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: 51–200
Offered interviews: 51–75%

Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Not required · this stream

Info session

details

Tue 19 Jan 2027,6:00 pm ET

Interviews

2 dates, 27 Jan – 3 Feb 2027virtual

Québec, 16 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

Program website CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Elective rotation in post-traumatic stress injuries linked to military operations.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

Université Laval's five-year psychiatry residency trains mainly at Quebec City hospitals, including CHU de Québec sites and IUSMQ.
In R4, one of the elective rotations must be done in a region outside the city, and it can be split between two regions.
Hands-on research training is mandatory, and IMGs must complete a one-month acclimatization rotation before residency.

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

What training looks like

Setting: Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community
Rural exposure: Optional rural rotation
Research: Required · research project · protected time
Training language: French

By year

PGY-3: Pédopsychiatrie5 périodes
Gérontopsychiatrie5 périodes
Stage à option3 périodes
PGY-4: Trouble sévère et persistant - psychose6 mois
Consultation-liaison3 mois
Stages à option3 mois

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Urgence psychiatrique (1ère année de résidence (P1 à P3))
Consultation-liaison (1ère année de résidence (P1 à P3))
Unité de Traitement Bref ou d'hospitalisation en psychiatrie générale (1ère année de résidence (P1 à P3))
Urgence physique (1ère année de résidence (P4 à P13) · 1P)
Stage de nuit (1ère année de résidence (P4 à P13) · 1P)
Neurologie (1ère année de résidence (P4 à P13) · 2P)
MD interne ou MD familiale en hospitalisation (1ère année de résidence (P4 à P13) · 1P)
MD familiale en GMF (1ère année de résidence (P4 à P13) · 1P)
Option (1ère année de résidence (P4 à P13) · 2P)
Urgence psychiatrique (1ère année de résidence (P4 à P13) · 2P)
Psychiatrie générale à l'unité interne et en clinique externe (2ème année de résidence (P1 à P13))
Stages optionnels (5ème année de résidence · blocs de 2-6 périodes)

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

Where you train

Québec, Quebec: 16 teaching sites; optional rural rotation.

CHUL
Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus
Hôpital Saint-Sacrement
Centre de pédopsychiatrie de Québec
Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec (IUSMQ)
Hôpital de Baie-St-Paul (Baie-St-Paul · rural or distributed site)
Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ, Hôpital Laval)
CSSS d'Alphonse-Desjardins (Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis) (Lévis)
Hôpital de St-Georges de Beauce (St-Georges · rural or distributed site)
Hôpital de Montmagny-L'Islet (Montmagny · rural or distributed site)
CHR de Rimouski-Neigette (Rimouski · rural or distributed site)

Show all 16 sites

CHR du Grand-Portage - Rivière-du-Loup (Rivière-du-Loup · rural or distributed site)
CSSS du Nord de Lanaudière (Joliette) (Joliette · rural or distributed site)
CSSS de la Côte de Gaspé (rural or distributed site)
CSSS des Îles de la Madeleine (rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: Cristal-Net at 6 of 16; no published record for 10.

Hospital facts

10 sites · public figures and clinical record systems where they are published

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) As of 31 Oct 2026. At CHUL, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Hôpital Saint-Sacrement.
Clinical record: DCI Cristal-Net, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026. At CSSS d'Alphonse-Desjardins (Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis), Hôpital de St-Georges de Beauce.

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.

CHUL

Matched to Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 28,705 · 2026–2027: 29,528
Licensed beds: physical health 296 · neonatology 56

Hôtel-Dieu de Québec

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

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 9,117 · 2026–2027: 9,533
Licensed beds: physical health 262 · hôtellerie 63

Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus

Clinical record: Cristal-Net (dossier clinique informatisé), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 25,968 · 2026–2027: 26,733
Licensed beds: physical health 335

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Hôpital Saint-Sacrement

Matched to Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 15,123 · 2026–2027: 15,641
Licensed beds: physical health 111

Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec (IUSMQ)

Matched to Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Licensed beds: physical health 15 · psychiatry 217

Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ, Hôpital Laval)

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

CSSS d'Alphonse-Desjardins (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

Hôpital de St-Georges de Beauce

Matched to Hôpital de Saint-Georges (Saint-Georges) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 18,152 · 2026–2027: 17,425
Licensed beds: physical health 120 · psychiatry 25 · geriatrics 10 · neonatology 5

Hôpital de Montmagny-L'Islet

Matched to Hôpital de Montmagny (Montmagny) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 13,762 · 2026–2027: 13,489
Licensed beds: physical health 53 · psychiatry 10 · geriatrics 8

CHR de Rimouski-Neigette

Matched to Hôpital Régional de Rimouski (Rimouski) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 12,321 · 2026–2027: 12,663
Licensed beds: physical health 170 · psychiatry 34 · geriatrics 15 · neonatology 5

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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
Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

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
Other file component(s)
Return of service: Not required · this stream
IMG requirements: Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match): 27 Jan 2027; 3 Feb 2027
Format: Virtual

Info sessions

Tue 19 Jan 2027
6:00 pm ET
Info session · Virtual

From the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), read 20 Oct 2026; a row tagged CANPREPP is on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026), alone or as well. Dates and times are as the program wrote them; “your time” is worked out in your browser when your time zone differs. Programs add and change sessions.

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 the 5 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
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

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

Past matches

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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.

Source: CaRMS’s lists of positions open after round 1 and after round 2, as read in October 2026 (latest: 2026 round 1 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab), 2026 round 2 (CaRMS PDF, opens in a new tab)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews	What changed
Regular stream	13	5 years	2 dates, 27 Jan – 3 Feb 2027Virtual	Positions 11 → 13 from the 2026 match

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
Regular streamQuébec - Psychiatrie	11	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 Psychiatry Residency Program is a comprehensive 5-year training program designed to develop competent, versatile psychiatrists capable of working autonomously and in teams across Quebec.
The program focuses on providing a solid foundation in general psychiatry while allowing residents to develop specialized skills in various areas of interest.

Research: Mandatory research training with theoretical and practical components, including individual or team research projects from PGY2-5, with potential for clinician-researcher pathway.
Training setting: Urban and regional training sites across Quebec, including multiple hospitals in Quebec City, Lévis, Rimouski, and other regions, providing diverse clinical experiences.
Teaching approach: Progressive, competency-based training with increasing autonomy, emphasizing clinical skills, psychotherapy, research, and social responsibility through a structured, staged learning approach.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
Clinical Stage Evaluations
Reference Letters
Curriculum Vitae
Motivation Letter
Behavioral Interview
French Language Proficiency

Positions, length and interviews as each match’s CaRMS pages stated them; what changed from our comparison of the two matches and our readings of the 2027 pages.

Contacts and links

Program director: Dr(e) Charles-Yoland DesfossésDirecteur du programme
charles.desfosses.1@ulaval.ca
Program office: Équipe Admission, Vice-décanat aux études médicales postdoctorales - Université Laval, Agente de gestion des études
Write to the officeadmission.postmd@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.

Program websiteWebsite This program on CaRMS

Psychiatry elsewhere

Nearest to Québec

Sherbrooke - PsychiatryUniversité de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke · 165 km
12 positions · Regular, Regular (NRQ) RoS
Montreal - Psychiatry, McGillMcGill University
Montreal · 233 km
10 positions · Regular
Bilingual
Montreal - Psychiatry, MontréalUniversité de Montréal
Montreal · 233 km
15 positions · Regular

In these collections:

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 9 Sep 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 35338 · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

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 24 Oct 2026.

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