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Barrie - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine

University of TorontoBarrie, 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
0–25%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

1 date, 21 Oct 2026Panel

Barrie, 5 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Dedicated 4-week ED ultrasound rotation aiming for CEUS Independent Practitioner status, preceded by an EDE 1 course.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Trauma rotation at St. Michael's Hospital includes shadowing Trauma Team Leader call.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Residents may keep a weekly half-day in their base hospital Family Practice Unit.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This 1-year, 13-block emergency medicine program at the University of Toronto Barrie site leads to a CCFP Certificate of Added Competence in Emergency Medicine.
  • A 4-week ED ultrasound rotation targets CEUS Independent Practitioner status, and residents complete a required scholarly project.

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

What training looks like

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

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • General Emergency Department (12 weeks · Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre)
  • Pediatric Emergency Department (8 weeks · Community ER/Tertiary Paediatric)
  • Anesthesia (Adult and Pediatric) (4 weeks · Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre)
  • Musculoskeletal (Orthopedics/Plastic Surgery (4 weeks · Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre)
  • Elective (4 weeks)
  • Intensive Care Unit (8 weeks · Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre)
  • Coronary Care Unit (4 weeks · Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre)
  • Trauma (4 weeks · St. Michael Hospital)
  • ED Ultrasound (4 weeks · Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre / Toronto)

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

Where you train

Barrie, Ontario: 5 teaching sites.

  • Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
  • St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto)
  • St. Joseph health Centre (Toronto)
  • Michael Garron Hospital (Toronto)
  • Credit Valley hospital (Mississauga)

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 1 of 5, MEDITECH at 1; no published record for 3.

Hospital facts

2 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.

Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre

Clinical record
MEDITECH Expanse (CARE4 shared record), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

St. Michael's Hospital

Clinical record
Epic, fully electronic record since Nov 2024 As of 31 Oct 2026

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

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

About Barrie

  • People

    147,829residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Barrie

  • Housing

    4.2%rental vacancy rate

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

  • Winter and summer

    −7.2 °CJanuary mean20.1 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Egbert, 17.6 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Barrie (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)
21 Oct 2026
Format
  • Panel

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 (as the program states it)
In-house 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. Amna KARABEGOVIC

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

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.

DFCM Enhanced Skills Emergency Medicine Program Page(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Barrie

Source

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

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34647 · 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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