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Ottawa - Psychiatry

University of OttawaOttawa, Ontario

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
9 positions−1 from 10 in the 2026 match
2 positions
Length
5 years
Applications per year
401–600
Offered interviews
0–25%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

IMG stream · open to international medical graduates

Return of service: Required

IMG requirements: Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program; “Any applicant below the average for the examination or below the top 30% of applicants…” details under How they choose

Info session

details info sessions of this program

Tue 3 Nov 2026,6:00–8:00 pm (time zone not stated)

Interviews

12 dates, 18 Jan – 5 Feb 2027virtual

Ottawa, 6 teaching sites

Program website(opens in a new tab)CANPREPP profile(opens in a new tab)CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Residents can complete rotations in French as well as English.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Faculty run the national psychiatry review course every year.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • The University of Ottawa Psychiatry program is a 5-year residency based at six Ottawa teaching hospitals, including the Royal Ottawa Hospital and CHEO.
  • Psychotherapy training is longitudinal from PGY2 to PGY4, and all residents complete a mandatory scholarly project with protected time.
  • Rotations can be done in French and English, and there are no mandatory rural rotations.

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
Research
Required · scholarly or quality-improvement 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.

  • psychiatry (Transition to Discipline · two blocks)
  • Internal Medicine (Foundations)
  • Family Medicine (Foundations)
  • Endocrinology (Foundations)
  • Geriatric Medicine (Foundations)
  • Adult and Child Emergency Medicine (Foundations)
  • Neurology (Foundations)
  • Palliative Care (Foundations)
  • Psychiatric Emergency Service (Foundations)
  • Addictions (Foundations)
  • Intellectual Developmental Disorder (Foundations)
  • Under-Serviced Psychiatry (Foundations)
  • General Hospital Adult Inpatient psychiatry (Foundations · 6 mos · Civic, General, MFH & ROH & QCH)
  • General Hospital Adult Outpatient psychiatry (Foundations · 6 mos · Civic, General & MFH & ROH & QCH)
  • Child & Adolescent psychiatry (Core · 5 mos · CHEO & ROH)
  • Geriatric psychiatry (Core · 5 mos · ROH & MFH & TOH)
  • Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (Core · 6 mos · ROH, MFH & TOH)
  • Consultation-Liaison psychiatry (Core · 3 mos · Civic, General, & MFH)
  • Shared & Collaborative Care (Core · 5 mos · Civic, General, & MFH & QCH)
  • Psychotherapy (Core · longitudinal for PGY2 - 4 · All teaching sites)
  • Electives (Transition to Practice · 7 blocks)
  • Electives (Transition to Practice · 6 blocks)

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • Transition to Discipline/Foundations (Transition to Discipline/Foundations · 12 mos · Civic, General & MFH & ROH)
  • General Hospital Adult Inpatient psychiatry (Foundations · 6 mos · Civic, General, MFH & ROH)
  • General Hospital Adult Outpatient psychiatry (Foundations · 6 mos · Civic, General & MFH, ROH)
  • Child & Adolescent psychiatry (Core · 5 mos · CHEO & ROH)
  • Geriatric psychiatry (Core · 5 mos · ROH & MFH)
  • Severe & Persistent Mental Illness (Core · 6 mos · ROH, MFH & General)
  • Consultation-Liaison psychiatry (Core · 3 mos · Civic, General, & MFH)
  • Shared & Collaborative Care (Core · 2 mos · Civic, General, & MFH)
  • Psychotherapy (Core · longitudinal for PGY 2- 4 · All teaching sites)
  • Electives (Transition to Practice · 7 blocks)
  • Electives (Transition to Practice · 6 blocks)

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

Where you train

Ottawa, Ontario: 6 teaching sites.

  • The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus
  • The Ottawa Hospital General Campus
  • Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
  • The Royal Ottawa Hospital
  • Montfort Hospital
  • Queensway Carleton Hospital

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 5 of 6; no published record for 1.

Hospital facts

5 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 The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, The Ottawa Hospital General Campus.
Clinical record
Epic (Atlas Alliance shared system), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026. At Montfort Hospital, Queensway Carleton Hospital.

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Clinical record
Epic, 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

    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
Return of service
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service
Required
IMG requirements
  • Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program
  • “Any applicant below the average for the examination or below the top 30% of applicants will not be considered further.”

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28 and 29 Jan 2027; 1, 2, 4 and 5 Feb 2027
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Info sessions

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
LevelAnnual 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 3 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.
YearOpen after round 1Open after round 2
2018not available0
201900
202000
202100
202200
20231 position open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
202400
20252 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20263 positions open after round 1 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)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)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviewsWhat changed
CMG stream95 years12 dates, 18 Jan – 5 Feb 2027Virtual
  • Positions 10 → 9 from the 2026 match
IMG stream25 years12 dates, 18 Jan – 5 Feb 2027VirtualNothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream105 years13 dates, 12 Jan – 6 Feb 2026
IMG stream25 years13 dates, 12 Jan – 6 Feb 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The University of Ottawa Psychiatry Program offers comprehensive training in psychiatry, emphasizing a wide breadth of expertise across various subspecialties.
  • The program focuses on developing highly qualified psychiatrists through an engaging and supportive educational environment that covers multiple clinical domains and psychotherapeutic approaches.
Research
Protected time for mandatory scholarly project, comprehensive seminar series on research methodology, annual Research Day presentation
Training setting
Urban medical training environment in Ottawa, with multiple hospital sites including academic and community hospitals across different campuses.
Teaching approach
Competency-based medical education using a progressive learning approach, with structured curriculum focusing on CanMEDS roles and comprehensive skill development throughout residency stages.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • CV
  • Examinations
  • Leadership skills
  • Medical Student Performance Record
  • Personal letter
  • Reference documents
  • Research/Publications
  • Transcripts

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. Sephora Tang

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Program office

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

Program websiteWebsiteCANPREPPCANPREPPThis program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Psychiatry elsewhere

Nearest to Ottawa

  • Kingston - PsychiatryQueen’s University

    Kingston · 146 km

    8 positions · CMG, IMG

  • Montreal - PsychiatryMcGill University

    Montreal, QC · 166 km

    10 positions · Regular

    Bilingual
  • North Bay - PsychiatryNOSM University

    North Bay · 308 km

    2 positions · CMG, IMG

In these collections:

Source

The CMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 14 Aug 2026 · The IMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 14 Aug 2026 · 2027 match · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 36374 (CMG stream), 36131 (IMG stream) · 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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