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Barrie - Family Medicine - Palliative Care

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
26–50%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

Not stated on CaRMS page

Barrie, 10 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Required one-block rotation in palliative care for people experiencing homelessness (PEACH) with Inner City Health Associates.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This 12-month University of Toronto palliative care enhanced skills program has a Barrie stream that prepares physicians to provide primary and consultant palliative care.
  • Mandatory blocks include inpatient consultation and oncology at Royal Victoria Hospital, home palliative care with the Barrie team, and rotations at Southlake, Princess Margaret, SickKids and Inner City Health Associates.
  • Residents must complete a scholarly project and attend a four-month longitudinal half-day ambulatory clinic.

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.
    Show the quote

    Personal and career objectives that can be met by the Barrie stream of the training program at U of T

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Regional community
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
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 Consultation Services (2 blocks · Royal Victoria Hospital)
  • Home Palliative Care (2 blocks · Barrie palliative care team)
  • Inpatient Palliative Care Unit (2 blocks · Southlake Regional Health Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital)
  • Medical + Radiation Oncology (1 block · Royal Victoria Hospital)
  • Psychosocial Oncology (1 block · University Health Network (Princess Margaret Hospital), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)
  • PEACH (Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless) (1 Block · Inner City Health Associates (ICHA))
  • Pediatric Palliative Care (0.5 Block · The Hospital for Sick Children)
  • Non-malignant Palliative Care (0.5 Block · Royal Victoria Hospital)
  • Elective (3 blocks · Negotiated individually, with approval of PD)
  • longitudinal, four-month, half-day clinic (four-month · Odette Cancer Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital or Mount Sinai Hospital)

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

Where you train

Barrie, Ontario: 10 teaching sites.

  • Royal Victoria Hospital
  • Barrie palliative care team
  • Southlake Regional Health Centre (Newmarket)
  • Princess Margaret Hospital (Toronto)
  • University Health Network (Princess Margaret Hospital) (Toronto)
  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto)
  • Inner City Health Associates (ICHA) (Toronto)
  • The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
  • Odette Cancer Centre (Toronto)
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 3 of 10, MEDITECH at 2, Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1; no published record for 4.

Moving to a new system: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (scheduled 2027). Mount Sinai Hospital.

Hospital facts

6 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 Hospital

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

Southlake Regional Health Centre

Clinical record
MEDITECH Expanse, fully electronic record As of 31 Oct 2026

Princess Margaret Hospital

Clinical record
Epic, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026
Show facts for 3 more sites

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Clinical record
Oracle Health, moving to a new system, scheduled 2027 As of 31 Oct 2026

The Hospital for Sick Children

Clinical record
Epic, system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

Mount Sinai Hospital

Clinical record
Epic (shared instance with Unity Health), moving to a new system 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)
Not stated on CaRMS page
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 (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. Sarah Kawaguchi

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. Site staff and other contacts are listed there too.

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

Family Medicine - Palliative Care 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 37001 · 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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