Rural Brandon - Psychiatry

University of ManitobaRural Brandon, Manitoba

Approx. quota: 2 positions
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: 51–200
Offered interviews: 76–100%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

IMG stream · open to international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Open house

all 2

Tue 15 Dec 2026,6:30 pm CSTvia CANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)

Interviews

6 dates, 20–27 Jan 2027virtual

Rural Brandon, 10 teaching sites · required rural rotation

A car is recommended

Program website CANPREPP profile CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Residents start psychotherapy training with their own patient during the second half of PGY-1.
From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page
Community psychiatry experiences in Northern Manitoba and Nunavut are available through Ongomiizwin.
From “Training sites” on the CaRMS page

This is a five-year University of Manitoba psychiatry residency with Brandon teaching sites at the Brandon Regional Health Center, the regional referral centre for Western Manitoba.
PGY-1 is a basic clinical training year, PGY-2 to PGY-4 consist of 6-month core psychiatry blocks, and PGY-5 is 12 months of elective training.
Residents must complete a research deliverable before the end of PGY3 and take part in community placements that include rural/remote sites.

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

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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The Brandon teaching sites include the Center for Adult Psychiatry (CAP), the Center for Geriatric Psychiatry (CGP), and the Child and Adolescent Treatment Center.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting: Regional community
Rural / remote
Rural exposure: Required rural rotation
Research: Required · research project · protected time
Getting around: A car is recommended
Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
Travel is reimbursed

By year

PGY-1: inpatient psychiatric ICU
emergency room psychiatry
consultation-liaison psychiatry
research
family medicine
emergency medicine
neurology
internal medicine
PGY-2: adult inpatient psychiatry6-month
adult outpatient psychiatry6-month
PGY-3: geriatric psychiatry6-month
child and adolescent psychiatry6-month
PGY-4: Consultation-Liaison psychiatry6 months
Severe and Persistent Mental Illness psychiatry6 months
Shared Care/Collaborative Care
PGY-5: elective training12 months

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

Where you train

Rural Brandon, Manitoba: 10 teaching sites; required rural rotation. A car is recommended.

Brandon Regional Health Center (Brandon)
Center for Adult Psychiatry (CAP) (Brandon)
Center for Geriatric Psychiatry (CGP) (Brandon)
Child and Adolescent Treatment Center (Brandon)
Town Center Clinics (Brandon)
PsycHealth Centre (Winnipeg)
Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)
McEwen Building at the St. Boniface Hospital (Winnipeg)
Victoria Hospital (Winnipeg)
Selkirk Mental Health Centre (rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Altera at 4 of 10; no published record for 6.

Moving to a new system: Brandon Regional Health Center; Health Sciences Centre; McEwen Building at the St. Boniface Hospital; Victoria Hospital (scheduled 31 Mar 2027 across the province).

Hospital facts

4 sites · clinical record systems where an official source states them

What official sources say for hospitals named above, each with its source and the date we read it. 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: Altera Digital Health (EPR), moving to a new system in every hospital by 31 Mar 2027; this hospital’s own date is not published by the province yet As of 31 Oct 2026. At Brandon Regional Health Center, Health Sciences Centre, McEwen Building at the St. Boniface Hospital, Victoria Hospital.

Manitoba's electronic patient record is going into every hospital by the end of March 2027, a hospital at a time (6 of 57 complete as of June 2026). Order entry is not included at this stage. As of 31 Oct 2026

Verify with the official source: each source button opens the publisher’s own page.

Hospital size and activity: Manitoba doesn't publish this as open data.

About Brandon

People
51,313residents, 2021 Census
Municipality of Brandon
Housing
not published for this area
Winter and summer
−16.7 °CJanuary mean18.4 °CJuly mean
1991–2020 normals, Brandon, 7.4 km away
Job outlook
Undeterminedfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Brandon (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: CV
Electives
Examinations
Extra-curricular
Leadership skills
MSPRs
Personal letters
Reference documents
Research/Publications
Transcripts
Return of service, CMG stream: Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service, IMG stream: Required · IMGs only
IMG requirements, IMG stream: Not stated on CaRMS page

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

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match): 20, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 Jan 2027
Format: Virtual
Traditional (one on one/two on one)
Panel

Info sessions

Tue 15 Dec 2026
6:30 pm CST
Open house · VirtualCANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)
Wed 16 Dec 2026
6:30 pm CST
Open house · VirtualCANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)

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 22 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). One provincial scale for Manitoba, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Manitoba
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$72,171 / year
PGY-2	$77,416 / year
PGY-3	$83,372 / year
PGY-4	$89,329 / year
PGY-5	$95,285 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (provincial max): 7 calls per 4-week block, in-house and home call combined
Post-call rule (provincial): No duty hours before 06:00 the next calendar day, after in-hospital call
Max continuous duty (provincial): 26 consecutive hours (24, plus 2 for handover)

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. PARIM agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Past matches

Open after round 1 in 6 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 2 of 9 years.

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: Rural Brandon.

Show the table, with round 2

Positions at this site, all streams, still open after round 1 and after round 2, by year. Each count above zero links to the CaRMS list page it comes from.
Year	Open after round 1	Open after round 2
2018	not available	0
2019	0	0
2020	0	0
2021	1 position open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2022	1 position open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2023	1 position open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	1 position open after round 2 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
2024	1 position open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2025	2 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2026	3 positions open after round 1 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	3 positions open after round 2 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)

CaRMS’s first-round list for 2018 was not found, so round 1 is counted over 8 years and round 2 over 9.

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
CMG stream	2	5 years	6 dates, 20–27 Jan 2027Virtual	Nothing noted
IMG stream	2	5 years	6 dates, 20–27 Jan 2027Virtual	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG stream	2	5 years	6 dates, 21–28 Jan 2026
IMG stream	2	5 years	6 dates, 21–28 Jan 2026

The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description

The University of Manitoba Psychiatry training program offers a supportive and welcoming learning environment.
Residents are active members of the department, receiving expert training in biological and psychological treatments, with a strong emphasis on psychotherapy modalities.

Research: Residents are required to complete at least one publishable research paper by PGY-3, with up to one year of research time available during PGY-5. A dedicated Research Track is also available.
Training setting: Training occurs in Brandon and Winnipeg, with multiple clinical sites including Brandon Regional Health Center, PsycHealth Centre, and community clinics across Manitoba.
Teaching approach: Competency-based medical education focusing on developing residents as medical experts, communicators, collaborators, leaders, health advocates, scholars, and professionals.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: Medical Student Performance Record
Personal letter
CV/Resume
References
Interview performance
Clinical experiences
Communication skills

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 directors: Dr. Michael Harrington
Dr. Camille Glidden
Dr. Kirsten Penner-Goeke
CaRMS lists no email for the directors.
Program office: Program Administrator
Write to the officeCaRMS.Psych@umanitoba.ca

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.

Program websiteWebsite CANPREPPCANPREPP Video on YouTube This program on CaRMS

Psychiatry elsewhere

Nearest to Rural Brandon

Winnipeg - PsychiatryUniversity of Manitoba
Winnipeg · 202 km
13 positions · CMG, IMG
Regina - PsychiatryUniversity of Saskatchewan
Regina, SK · 339 km
4 positions · CMG, IMG
Saskatoon - PsychiatryUniversity of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK · 534 km
4 positions · CMG, IMG

In these collections:

Source

The CMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 17 Sep 2026 · The IMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 17 Sep 2026 · 2027 match · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 36148 (CMG stream), 35523 (IMG stream) · 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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