Ottawa - Bilingual - General Surgery

University of OttawaOttawa, OntarioCMG stream

Approx. quota: 1 position
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: 51–200
Offered interviews: 26–50%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

Info session

all 2

Fri 6 Nov 2026,7:00–8:00 pm ESTvia CANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)

Interviews

1 date, 5 Feb 2027MMI or rotating station

Ottawa, 7 teaching sites

Program website Instagram CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Bilingual stream offering French-language surgical training at the Montfort Hospital, from early through senior residency.
From “Additional information” on the CaRMS page

This is a five-year General Surgery residency at the University of Ottawa, based at The Ottawa Hospital's three campuses.
Applicants to this stream must be comfortable in French and English, and residents can get added exposure to surgery practised in French at the Montfort Hospital.
The program offers a Surgical Scientist Program and community surgery experience at partnering hospitals.

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: Francophone minority communities
Research: Offered · research project · protected time
Training language: English and French

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Emergency Medicine (Early residency · Montfort Hospital)
Gastroenterology (Early residency · Montfort Hospital)
General Surgery (Early residency · Montfort Hospital)
General Surgery (senior residency · Montfort)

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

Where you train

Ottawa, Ontario: 7 teaching sites.

Ottawa Hospital - Civic Campus
Ottawa Hospital - General Campus
Ottawa Hospital - Riverside Campus
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
The Montfort Hospital
Pembroke Regional Hospital (Community) (Pembroke · rural or distributed site)
Hawkesbury and District General Hospital (Hawkesbury · rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 6 of 7; no published record for 1.

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.

Clinical record: Epic (Atlas Alliance shared system), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026. At Ottawa Hospital - Civic Campus, Ottawa Hospital - General Campus, Ottawa Hospital - Riverside Campus.

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario

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

The Montfort Hospital

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

Pembroke Regional Hospital (Community)

Clinical record: Epic (Atlas Alliance shared system), fully electronic record since Oct 2026 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
Goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

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: Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match): 5 Feb 2027
Format: MMI or rotating station

Info sessions

Fri 6 Nov 2026
7:00–8:00 pm EST
Info session · VirtualCANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)
Fri 13 Nov 2026
7:00–8:00 pm EST
Info session · 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 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 the 5 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$73,367 / year
PGY-2	$79,670 / year
PGY-3	$85,564 / year
PGY-4	$92,701 / year
PGY-5	$98,567 / 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.

Past matches

Open after round 1 in 2 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 0 of 9 years.

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

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	0	0
2022	0	0
2023	1 position open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2024	1 position open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2025	0	0
2026	0	0

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	1	5 years	1 date, 5 Feb 2027MMI or rotating station	Nothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
CMG streamOttawa - General Surgery	1	5 years	1 date, 6 Feb 2026

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

The University of Ottawa General Surgery Program offers comprehensive training for those interested in academic or community practice.
Located at The Ottawa Hospital, which serves 1.3 million people, the program provides extensive surgical experience with over 50,000 surgical cases annually and excellent research opportunities.

Research: Extensive research opportunities through Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, with graduate programs in Basic Science Research, Clinical Epidemiology, Health Administration, Education, and Public Health.
Training setting: Urban academic medical center in Ottawa, with multiple hospital sites serving a large population in Eastern Ontario, including academic and community hospital settings.
Teaching approach: Competency-based medical education following Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada standards, emphasizing progressive independence and comprehensive surgical training.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: CV
Electives
Personal letter
Reference documents
Research/Publications
Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI)

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 director: Dr. Kimberly Bertens
Faculty profile of Dr. Kimberly Bertens(opens in a new tab)
Biography
In addition Dr. Bertens has completed a Masters of Public Health with a focus in quantitative methods at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research interests include the interface between sociodemographic factors and access to surgical care.
Source: uottawa.ca · checked Oct 2026
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Program office: Program Administrator
Write to the officepa.gensurg@toh.ca

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

Program websiteWebsite University of Ottawa Website - General Surgery This program on CaRMS

Videos and podcasts

From the program

Public podcast episodes and videos where the program presents itself. The short descriptions are ours; each link goes to the original.

Programs describe what makes them unique (opens YouTube in a new tab)
YouTube · 2024
Cold Steel (opens in a new tab)
YouTube channel

These are public recordings, reviewed by hand and linked here, not endorsed. They may be out of date. Confirm with the program.

All videos, podcasts and discussions →

General Surgery elsewhere

Nearest to Ottawa - Bilingual

Ottawa - General SurgeryUniversity of Ottawa
Ottawa · 0 km
6 positions · CMG, IMG
Kingston - General SurgeryQueen’s University
Kingston · 146 km
5 positions · CMG
Montreal - General SurgeryMcGill University
Montreal, QC · 166 km
4 positions · Regular

In these collections:

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · 2027 match · last approved 9 Sep 2026 · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 36544 · 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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