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Ottawa - Family Medicine - Care of the Elderly

University of OttawaOttawa, OntarioCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
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

Ottawa, 6 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

Also at Ottawa, applied for at the school: Care of the Elderly - re-entry candidates (Category 1 program, non-CaRMS entry), on Ottawa’s page of programs applied for at the school · 12 months · residents and practising physicians · no dates published (as of 10 Oct 2026)

Not through CaRMS: you apply to Ottawa, on its own dates. Confirm on the school’s page before you apply.

What stands out about this program

  • Longitudinal link to a family medicine clinic maintains general family practice throughout the year.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Option to complete select rotations in French.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This 12-month (13-block) Care of the Elderly enhanced skills program is based at Bruyère Continuing Care in Ottawa.
  • Core rotations include geriatric rehabilitation, geriatric medicine, geriatric psychiatry, day hospital, palliative care and long-term care, plus 2 elective blocks.
  • Residents keep a longitudinal link to a family medicine clinic and complete a scholarly project.

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

What training looks like

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

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Geriatric Rehabilitation (3 blocks)
  • Geriatric Medicine (2 blocks)
  • Geriatric Psychiatry (2 blocks)
  • Geriatric Day Hospital (1 block)
  • Palliative Care (1 block)
  • Long-term Care (1 block or longitudinal)
  • elective rotations (2 blocks)

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

Where you train

Ottawa, Ontario: 6 teaching sites.

  • Bruyère Continuing Care Hospital
  • The Ottawa Hospital
  • Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
  • L'Hôpital Montfort
  • Queensway Carleton Hospital
  • local long-term care facilities

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 2 of 6; no published record for 4.

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.

The Ottawa Hospital

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

Queensway Carleton Hospital

Clinical record
Epic (Atlas Alliance shared system), system named (how far it goes is not stated) 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 Ottawa

  • People

    1,017,449residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Ottawa

  • Housing

    2.9%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario part, Ontario/Quebec (census agglomeration)

  • Winter and summer

    −9.6 °CJanuary mean21.3 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Ottawa (City), 5.1 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about Ottawa (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
  • Other file component(s)
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
Virtual
  • 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
Program office

PGY3 Program Coordinator

Write to the officeesfpdfm@uottawa.ca

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

PGY3 Enhanced Skills programs, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Care of the Elderly elsewhere

Nearest to Ottawa

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · FM/ES 2027 match · last approved 27 Jul 2026.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 34565 · 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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