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Toronto - Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine

University of TorontoToronto, OntarioCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

At a glance

Approx. quota
Not stated on CaRMS page
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
76–100%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

Not stated on CaRMS page

Toronto, 2 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Includes gambling disorders and nicotine dependency clinics alongside youth concurrent disorders experience.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This one-year addiction medicine program trains family physicians to treat patients with substance use disorders in urban or rural settings.
  • Residents rotate across University of Toronto network hospitals and community settings while keeping a longitudinal family medicine clinic.
  • All residents complete a scholarly project in education, policy, advocacy, QI or research.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • family_practice_continuity
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Inpatient addiction medicine consultation service
  • Medical withdrawal unit
  • Outpatient management of concurrent disorders
  • Residential treatment
  • Managing patients with chronic pain and opioid use disorders
  • Managing patients with pregnancy and substance use disorders
  • Youth concurrent disorders
  • Nicotine dependency clinic
  • Gambling disorders clinic
  • Optional selectives including HIV and Hepatitis C care, borderline personality disorder clinic, sexual behaviours clinic, etc.
  • Longitudinal half day back in family medicine
  • Family Medicine Longitudinal Experience
  • Integrated Pain and Chemical Dependency
  • Medical Withdrawal Service
  • Outpatient Addiction Medicine and Concurrent Disorders (AMS)
  • Youth Addiction and Concurrent Disorders Service
  • Inpatient Addiction (SJHC) (SJHC)
  • Inpatient Addiction (SMH) (SMH)
  • Residential Treatment

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

Where you train

Toronto, Ontario: 2 teaching sites.

  • SJHC
  • SMH

Record systems at the listed sites: no published record for 2 of 2.

Hospital facts

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

About Toronto

  • People

    2,794,356residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Toronto

  • Housing

    3.0%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Toronto, Ontario (census metropolitan area)

  • Winter and summer

    −3.5 °CJanuary mean22.5 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Toronto (City), 11.0 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Toronto (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
Required · IMGs only

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
Not stated on CaRMS page
Format
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

Pay and call

Provincial scale, last updated 6 Jan 2025 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). Contract expired, may change. One provincial scale for Ontario, 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, Ontario
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$85,564 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (provincial max)
7 nights in 28 in-house
Post-call rule (provincial)
No new patient responsibilities after 24 hours in-hospital, except what clinical handover needs
Max continuous duty (provincial)
24 hours in-hospital, then relieved after handover (up to 2 hours)

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. PARO agreement, 1 Jul 2023 to 30 Jun 2026. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Contacts and links

Program director

  • Dr. Erin Lurie

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Program office

Program Assistant

Write to the officefammed.enhanced@utoronto.ca

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

https://dfcm.utoronto.ca/enhanced-skills-program(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Toronto

Source

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

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34639 · 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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