Sherbrooke - General Surgery

Université de SherbrookeSherbrooke, QuebecRegular stream

Approx. quota: 5 positions+1 from 4 in the 2026 match
Length: 5 years
Applications per year: 51–200
Offered interviews: 51–75%

Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Interviews

1 date, 26 Jan 2027virtual

Sherbrooke, 5 teaching sites

CaRMS program page

What stands out about this program

Longitudinal program of formative written and oral exams structures study throughout residency.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page
Academic rounds follow a three-year cyclical plan covering core general surgery topics.
From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

This is a five-year French-language general surgery residency based at Santé Québec Estrie-CHUS (Fleurimont and Hôtel-Dieu) in Sherbrooke, with 18 residents.
All residents must complete a research project and a quality-of-care evaluation project, and ATLS and ACLS are required in first year.

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

Based on what the program says about itself.

You’re open to training at sites across a region, not at one hospital.
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Stages dans des milieux délocalisés.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting: Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community
Rural exposure: Not stated on CaRMS page
Research: Required · research project · protected time
Training language: French

By year

PGY-1: Chirurgie générale8
Recherche1
Dissection anatomique et technique chirurgicale1
Chirurgie thoracique1
Soins intensifs chirurgicaux2
PGY-2: Chirurgie généraledont 3 au Centre hospitalier Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska11
Soins intensifs chirurgicaux1
Clinique externe/Recherche1
PGY-3: Chirurgie généraledont 2-3 périodes à l'hôpital de Chicoutimi7
Endoscopie digestive1
Recherche1
Radiologie1
Choix entre clinique externe ou chirurgie thoracique à ChicoutimiChicoutimi1
Chirurgie vasculaire2
PGY-4: Chirurgie généraledont 2 périodes en milieu délocalisé5
Chirurgie vasculaire1-2
Endoscopie digestive1
Stages à option3
Pathologie0-1
Clinique externe1
Oncologie1
PGY-5: Chirurgie générale9
Clinique externe1
Endoscopie1
Stage d'intégration des apprentissages2

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

Where you train

Sherbrooke, Quebec: 5 teaching sites.

Santé-Québec Estrie - CHUS | Hôpitaux Fleurimont et Hôtel-Dieu
Centre Hospitalier Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska (Victoriaville · rural or distributed site)
Hôpital de Chicoutimi (Chicoutimi · rural or distributed site)
Hôpital Sainte-Croix (Drummondville · rural or distributed site)
Centre Hospitalier Charles-Le Moyne (Greenfield Park · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: Epic at 1 of 5, Purkinje-HM at 1; no published record for 3.

Hospital facts

4 sites · public figures and clinical record systems where they are published

Public figures for hospitals named above, each with its source and reference period. They describe the hospital, not the program. We match names to the sources by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

How to read the figures

Emergency visits. Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds. Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Centre Hospitalier Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska

Matched to Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska (Victoriaville) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 15,564 · 2026–2027: no row in the file
Licensed beds: physical health 151 · psychiatry 24 · geriatrics 24 · neonatology 4

Hôpital de Chicoutimi

Matched to Hôpital de Chicoutimi (Saguenay) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 20,522 · 2026–2027: 21,228
Licensed beds: physical health 311 · psychiatry 57 · neonatology 19 · hôtellerie 21

Hôpital Sainte-Croix

Clinical record: Epic: Dossier santé numérique (DSN), fully electronic record since May 2026 As of 31 Oct 2026

Matched to Hôpital Sainte-Croix (Drummondville) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 17,461 · 2026–2027: no row in the file
Licensed beds: physical health 154 · psychiatry 25 · geriatrics 18 · neonatology 4

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Centre Hospitalier Charles-Le Moyne

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

Matched to Hôpital Charles-le Moyne (Longueuil) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 30,073 · 2026–2027: 30,629
Licensed beds: physical health 571

Quebec's Dossier santé numérique is live at two regional health authorities only (Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal and Mauricie-et-Centre-du-Québec). No date is published for the other establishments. As of 31 Oct 2026

Verify with the official source: each source button opens the publisher’s own page.

Sources and licences

Contient de l'information fournie par le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec et visée par CC BY 4.0. Données modifiées. (Contains information provided by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec under CC BY 4.0. Data modified.)

About Sherbrooke

People
172,950residents, 2021 Census
Municipality of Sherbrooke
Housing
2.7%rental vacancy rate
October 2025 survey, Sherbrooke, Quebec (census metropolitan area)
Winter and summer
−9.5 °CJanuary mean19.7 °CJuly mean
1991–2020 normals, Lennoxville, 9.1 km away
Job outlook
Moderatefor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Sherbrooke (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: Extra-curricular
Leadership skills
CV
Reference documents
MSPRs
Examinations
Personal letters
Research/Publications
Transcripts
Electives
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): 26 Jan 2027
Format: Virtual
MMI or rotating station

Info sessions

None listed on the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) (read 20 Oct 2026) or on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026). Programs add sessions through the fall.

18 General Surgery info sessions at other programs All info sessions

Pay and call

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). One provincial scale for Quebec, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$58,728 / year
PGY-2	$64,809 / year
PGY-3	$70,890 / year
PGY-4	$76,969 / year
PGY-5	$83,050 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (provincial max): 6 calls in an establishment per 28 days
Post-call rule (provincial): 8 hours of mandatory rest after a work period
Max continuous duty (provincial): 16 hours in an establishment in any 24-hour period

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Benefits

28 lines as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024: Adoption leave, Annual vacation, Assistant Resident Coordinator, and more

Adoption leave: 29 to 38 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Annual vacation: 20 days/year
Assistant Resident Coordinator: $425/month
Call Premium: $607/28 days
Conference leave: 7 days pd/year
Dental Plan: Yes, available for a fee
Exam leave: Day (s) of the exam
Extended Health Insurance: Yes
Leave for death in family: From 1 to 5 days depending on the family member
Leave of absence without pay (exceptional measure): 12 months maximum
Life insurance: Yes
Long-Term disability insurance: Yes
Maternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP*) and FMRQ **: 21 weeks95 % of salary
Meals: Reduced feeFree during on-call duty
Pager: Provided by the establishment
Parental leave (time sharing between parents): 19 to 29 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Parking: ½ of doctors’ feeFree during on-call duty
Paternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP) and FMRQ: 1 week, 100% of salary3 to 5 weeks, 100% of salary(two options)
Professional Liability Insurance****(CPMA not applicable): Yes (free)
Quebec Health Insurance Program / RAMQ***: Yes
Resident Coordinator: $583/month
Resuscitation courses and examination leave: Day of the course and of the exam, course paid
Sick leave: 9.6 days pd / yearAnd reimbursement of days not taken
Statutory and floating holidays: 13/year
Study leave: 10 days pd/year
Superior Financial Programs: Yes
Teaching Premium: $240/28 days
Wedding leave: 7 days paid + 7 days without pay

Past matches

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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
Regular stream	5	5 years	1 date, 26 Jan 2027Virtual	Positions 4 → 5 from the 2026 match

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
Stream	Positions	Length	Interviews
Regular stream, CaRMS program 29282Sherbrooke - Chirurgie générale	4	5 years	1 date as the CaRMS page writes it
Regular stream, CaRMS program 31007Sherbrooke - Chirurgie générale	1	5 years	1 date as the CaRMS page writes it

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

The Université de Sherbrooke's General Surgery Residency Program is a comprehensive 5-year training program designed to prepare residents to provide surgical care across diverse practice settings throughout Canada.
The program offers extensive clinical exposure, research opportunities, and academic training across multiple hospital sites.

Research: Residents must complete a research project and quality assessment project. A clinician-researcher program is available and can be pursued during residency after discussion with the program director.
Training setting: Training occurs across multiple urban and regional hospital sites in Quebec, including academic medical centers, community hospitals, and regional health centers in Sherbrooke, Victoriaville, Chicoutimi, Drummondville, and Greenfield Park.
Teaching approach: The program emphasizes competency-based medical education, progressive independence, and comprehensive surgical training across multiple clinical domains with a focus on developing expert medical professionals.
Enhanced skills: Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at: CV and Medical Student Performance Record
Reference documents
Motivation letter
Research experience
Clinical rotations performance
Interview performance

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(e) Jessika Hétu
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Program office: Secrétaire de direction
Write to the officechirurgieprogramme-fmss@usherbrooke.ca

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

Service de chirurgie générale This program on CaRMS

General Surgery elsewhere

Nearest to Sherbrooke

Montreal - General Surgery, McGillMcGill University
Montreal · 131 km
4 positions · Regular
Bilingual
Montreal - General Surgery, MontréalUniversité de Montréal
Montreal · 131 km
6 positions · Regular
Québec - General SurgeryUniversité Laval
Québec · 165 km
5 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 36217 · 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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