Swift Current - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine
University of SaskatchewanSwift Current, SaskatchewanCompetitive stream
Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match
Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").
At a glance
- Approx. quota
- 2
- Length
- 1
- Applications per year
- 51–200
- Offered interviews
- 26–50%
Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates
Interviews
2 dates, 6–7 Nov 2026
Swift Current, 4 teaching sites
What stands out about this program
Longitudinal integrated FM-EM residency based in a small regional centre rather than block rotations.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Ongoing family medicine half day back, obstetrics call and inpatient rounds during the EM year.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Mileage and housing provided when travelling for mandatory rotations or academics.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
- This 1-year family medicine–emergency medicine program is based at Cypress Regional Hospital in Swift Current and leads to the CCFP-EM.
- Training is built around 32 weeks of longitudinal emergency-department-based clinical time plus 8 weeks of electives, with weekly primary care half-day clinics.
- Tertiary rotations in pediatric emergency medicine (Saskatoon), ICU and trauma (Regina) are included, and residents must complete a QI project.
What training looks like
- Setting
- Regional community
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Rural exposure
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Focus areas
- Longitudinal / integrated
- family_practice_continuity
- POCUS curriculum
- Research
- Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project · protected time
- Training language
- English
- Getting around
- Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
- Travel is reimbursed
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- ER/Longitudinal Learning (32 weeks · CRH, Swift Current)
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine (4 weeks · JPCH, Saskatoon)
- Intensive Care Unit (2 weeks · RGH, Regina)
- Trauma (2 weeks · RGH, Regina)
- Transition to Practice (2 weeks in Regina & 2 weeks in Swift Current · RGH, Regina & CRH, Swift Current)
- Elective Time (8 weeks · TBD)
Where you train
Swift Current, Saskatchewan: 4 teaching sites.
- Cypress Regional Hospital
- Associate Family Physicians Clinic
- Regina General Hospital (Regina)
- Jim Pattison Children's Hospital (Saskatoon)
Record systems at the listed sites: Sunrise Clinical Manager at 3 of 4; no published record for 1.
Hospital facts
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.
Cypress Regional Hospital
- Clinical record
- Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Regina General Hospital
- Clinical record
- Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Jim Pattison Children's Hospital
- Clinical record
- Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM), system named (how far it goes is not stated)
Hospital size and activity: Saskatchewan doesn't publish this as open data.
About Swift Current
People
16,750residents, 2021 Census
Housing
5.5%rental vacancy rate
Winter and summer
−10.8 °CJanuary mean18.3 °CJuly mean
Job outlook
not published for this specialty
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
Interviews and info sessions
- Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
- 6 and 7 Nov 2026
- Format
- Virtual
- Traditional (one on one/two on one)
- Panel
- MMI or rotating station
Pay and call
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-3 | $80,700 / year |
Call
- Call (provincial max)
- 1 in 4 in-house, averaged over a rotation
- Post-call rule (provincial)
- Back on regularly scheduled hours the next work day
- Max continuous duty (provincial)
- 24 hours, plus up to 2 hours for handover
Benefits
- Annual vacation
- 4 weeks
- CMPA dues paid
- 100%
- Dental plan
- 100%
- Educational leave
- Minimum 7 days with pay, 12 Maximum
- Employee Assistance Program
- Two programs available through SMA and University of Saskatchewan
- Extended health insurance
- Blue Cross family coverage, if registered with a Provincial Health Plan
- Life insurance
- Paid premium, >$100,000 coverage
- Long-term disability insurance
- Paid premium cost for Disability Insurance
- Maternity leave/ Paternity
- In conformity with Sask. Labour Standards Act – 17 weeks max maternity leave and up to 35 weeks parental leave.5 paid days paternity (can split the 35 weeks parental leave with mother as desired.)
- Meal allowance
- n/a
- On-Call Stipends
- Home Light: per duty period: $72 weekday; $83 weekendIn House: per duty period: $166 weekday; $191 weekendICU/CCU: per duty period: $166 weekday; $191 weekend
- Provincial dues (% of salary)
- 1 %
- Provincial health insurance
- Yes, if registered with Sask. Health
- Sick leave
- 1.25 days per month to maximum 75 days
- Statutory and floating holidays
- 1.5 times pay or 1/2 pay & day off for stats, plus 6 extra paid days off at Christmas
- Supplemental Maternity Leave Benefits
- 15 weeks topped to 90% pay when eligible for Employment Insurance
Contacts and links
- Program director
Dr. Desiree Rouleau
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
- Program office
FM-EM Swift Current Program Administrator, Enhanced Skills Coordinator
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.
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