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Ottawa - Public Health and Preventive Medicine including Family Medicine

University of OttawaOttawa, Ontario

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
1 position−1 from 2 in the 2026 match
1 position
Length
5 years
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
0–25%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

IMG stream · open to international medical graduates

Return of service: Required

IMG requirement: “Candidates must have had some public health practice experience in Canada before applying” details under How they choose

Info session

all 2 info sessions of this program

Thu 5 Nov 2026,time not stated

Interviews

3 dates, 19–21 Jan 2027virtual

Ottawa, 11 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

A car is recommended

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

What stands out about this program

  • Core and elective training in federal government agencies, including PHAC, ISC-FNIHB and National Defence.

    From “Selection criteria” on the CaRMS page

  • Residents may spend half a day per week in supervised family medicine clinical practice.

    From “Additional information” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a 5-year Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency whose first two years are integrated with uOttawa Family Medicine.
  • The third year is dedicated to graduate-level academic coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics and public health sciences.
  • Public health rotations take place at local, provincial and federal agencies, including the Public Health Agency of Canada and Department of National Defence.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Public health agency
  • Urban community
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural exposure
Optional rural rotation
Research
Required · research project
Training language
English and French
Getting around
  • A car is recommended

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • Academic Training (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 10)
  • Surveillance/ Epidemiology (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 3)
  • Health Promotion/ Disease Prevention (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 3)
  • Communicable Disease/ Health Protection (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 2 blocks junior & 3 blocks senior · local public health unit)
  • Environmental Health (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 3)
  • Public Health Policy & Planning (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 3)
  • Senior Management and Leadership (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 6)
  • elective (Core and Transition to Practice · Six blocks)

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • Academic Training (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 10)
  • Surveillance/ Epidemiology (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 3)
  • Health Promotion/ Disease Prevention (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 3)
  • Communicable Disease/ Health Protection (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 2 blocks junior & 3 blocks senior · local public health unit)
  • Environmental Health (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 3)
  • Public Health Policy & Planning (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 3)
  • Senior Management and Leadership (Years 3-5 of the Family Medicine Stream · 6)

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

Where you train

Ottawa, Ontario: 11 teaching sites; optional rural rotation. A car is recommended.

  • Ottawa Public Health
  • School of Epidemiology and Public Health
  • Ottawa Hospital campuses
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Department of National Defence
  • Indigenous Services Canada - First Nations and Inuit Health Branch
  • Public Health Ontario
  • Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health
  • Santé Québec Outaouais
  • Eastern Ontario Health Unit (rural or distributed site)
  • South East Health Unit (rural or distributed site)
  • Ottawa Public Health
  • Eastern Ontario Health Unit
  • Santé Québec Outaouais
  • Public Health Ontario
  • Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health
  • Department of National Defence
  • Indigenous Services Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
  • South East Health Unit
  • School of Epidemiology and Public Health
  • Ottawa Hospital

Record systems at the listed sites, all streams: Epic at 2 of 13; no published record for 11.

Hospital facts

1 site · 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.

Ottawa Hospital campuses

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
Return of service
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service
Required
IMG requirements
  • “Candidates must have had some public health practice experience in Canada before applying”

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

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
19, 20 and 21 Jan 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 4 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
20191 position open after round 1 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
202000
202100
202200
20231 position open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20242 positions open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
202500
20261 position 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 stream15 years3 dates, 19–21 Jan 2027Virtual
  • Positions 2 → 1 from the 2026 match
IMG stream15 years3 dates, 19–21 Jan 2027Virtual
  • New for 2027

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream25 years3 dates, 3–5 Feb 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The University of Ottawa's Public Health and Preventive Medicine (PHPM) residency program offers comprehensive training in Ottawa, providing unique local, provincial, and federal public health opportunities.
  • The program is designed to prepare residents to independently practice PHPM at multiple levels, with training in both official languages and diverse settings.
Research
Residents are encouraged to complete research projects and can pursue Master's degrees with program support.
Training setting
Training occurs in urban and rural settings across Ottawa, including community health centers, academic hospitals, federal and provincial government agencies, and local health units.
Teaching approach
Tailored, competency-based training with formative assessments, self-directed learning, and progressive independence, focusing on developing comprehensive public health physician competencies.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • Academic excellence
  • MCCQE Part I results
  • Letters of reference
  • Personal letter
  • Interview performance
  • Demonstrated public health interest

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

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Program office

Program Administrator

Write to the officesephphpm@uottawa.ca

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

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

Public Health and Preventive Medicine including Family Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Ottawa

In these collections:

Source

The CMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 8 Sep 2026 · The IMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 8 Sep 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 35975 (CMG stream), 35346 (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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