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Sherbrooke - Psychiatry

Université de SherbrookeSherbrooke, Quebec

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
10 positions+1 from 9 in the 2026 match
2 positions+1 from 1 in the 2026 match
Length
5 years
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
76–100%

Regular stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Regular (NRQ) RoS stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · 5 years

Info session

all 2 info sessions of this program

Mon 2 Nov 2026,7:00–9:00 pm (time zone not stated)

Interviews

2 dates, 21–28 Jan 2027virtual

Sherbrooke, 7 teaching sites

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

What stands out about this program

  • Electroconvulsive therapy simulation labs at each level of residency.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Longitudinal training tracks in ethics, psychopharmacology and cultural competence.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Two main training bases in different cities: Sherbrooke and Greenfield Park on Montreal's South Shore.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Université de Sherbrooke's psychiatry residency is a 5-year program delivered in Competence by Design.
  • Most rotations take place at Santé Québec Estrie-CHUS in Sherbrooke or at Centre Hospitalier Charles-Lemoyne in Greenfield Park, with a required geriatric psychiatry rotation in Moncton.
  • Residents get one half-day per week for academic activities and another half-day for research and psychotherapy.

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.
    Show the quote

    les deux principaux sites de stage sont le CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS, à Sherbrooke, et le Centre Hospitalier Charles-Lemoyne, à Greenfield Park

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Research
Offered · protected time
Training language
French

By year

PGY-2
  • stage mixteHôpital Ste-Croix
PGY-3
  • psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent6 périodes
  • gérontopsychiatrie6 périodes
PGY-4
  • clinique externe
  • consultation-liaison
  • clinique PEP
  • équipes de suivi intensif dans le milieu
  • psychiatrie légale
  • stages sélectifs (dépendance, trouble du développement intellectuel/trouble du spectre de l'autisme, approches intensives senior)
PGY-5
  • stages choisis par le.la résident.e

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • stage mosaïque (Progression vers la discipline · 3 périodes)
  • psychiatrie adulte (Progression vers la discipline)
  • consultation-liaison (Progression vers la discipline)
  • urgence (Progression vers la discipline)
  • unité de stabilisation rapide (Progression vers la discipline)
  • urgence générale (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • médecine de famille intrahospitalière (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • soins palliatifs (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • neurologie (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • médecine interne hospitalière (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • gériatrie (ou pédiatrie) (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • dépendance (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • approches intensives psychiatriques (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • psychiatrie adulte (intrahospitalière et en clinique externe) (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • gérontopsychiatrie (Hôpital Georges-L-Dumont à Moncton, NB)
PGY-2
  • stage mixteHôpital Ste-Croix
PGY-4
  • clinique externe
  • consultation-liaison
  • clinique PEP
  • équipes de suivi intensif dans le milieu
  • psychiatrie légale
  • stages sélectifs (dépendance, trouble du développement intellectuel/trouble du spectre de l'autisme, approches intensives senior)

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • stage mosaïque (Progression vers la discipline · 3 périodes)
  • psychiatrie adulte (Progression vers la discipline)
  • consultation-liaison (Progression vers la discipline)
  • urgence (Progression vers la discipline)
  • unité de stabilisation rapide (Progression vers la discipline)
  • urgence générale (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • médecine de famille intrahospitalière (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • soins palliatifs (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • neurologie (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • médecine interne hospitalière (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • gériatrie (ou pédiatrie) (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • dépendance (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • approches intensives psychiatriques (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • psychiatrie adulte (intrahospitalière et en clinique externe) (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline)
  • gérontopsychiatrie (Hôpital Georges-L-Dumont à Moncton, NB)

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

Where you train

Sherbrooke, Quebec: 7 teaching sites.

  • Santé Québec Estrie-CHUS
  • Hôtel-Dieu
  • Pavillon Argyll
  • site Fleurimont
  • CH Charles-Lemoyne (Greenfield Park)
  • Hôpital Ste-Croix
  • Hôpital Georges-L-Dumont (Moncton · rural or distributed site)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: ARIANE at 3 of 7, Epic at 1, Purkinje-HM at 1; no published record for 2.

Hospital facts

6 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.

Clinical record
DCI ARIANE (dossier clinique informatisé), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026. At Santé Québec Estrie-CHUS, Hôtel-Dieu, site Fleurimont.

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.

Santé Québec Estrie-CHUS

This name covers 2 hospitals in the province’s lists. Each is shown on its own, A to Z, and the numbers are never added together.

CHUS - Hôpital Fleurimont (Sherbrooke)
Emergency visits
2025–2026: 18,141 · 2026–2027: 19,532
Licensed beds
physical health 365 · psychiatry 6 · neonatology 20
CHUS - Hôtel-Dieu de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke)
Emergency visits
2025–2026: 18,578 · 2026–2027: 18,319
Licensed beds
physical health 216 · psychiatry 105

Pavillon Argyll

Matched to Hôpital et CHSLD Argyll (Sherbrooke) in the province’s hospital list.

Licensed beds
geriatrics 40

site Fleurimont

Matched to CHUS - Hôpital Fleurimont (Sherbrooke) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 18,141 · 2026–2027: 19,532
Licensed beds
physical health 365 · psychiatry 6 · neonatology 20
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CH Charles-Lemoyne

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

Hôpital Ste-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

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

    Goodfor 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
  • Other file component(s)
Return of service
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service
Required · 5 years

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

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
21 and 28 Jan 2027
Format
Virtual
  • MMI or rotating station

Info sessions

  • Mon 2 Nov 2026

    7:00–9:00 pm (time zone not stated)

    Info session

  • Mon 11 Jan 2027

    7:00–9:00 pm (time zone not stated)

    Info session · Virtual

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 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
LevelAnnual 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)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviewsWhat changed
Regular stream105 years2 dates, 21–28 Jan 2027Virtual
  • Positions 9 → 10 from the 2026 match
Regular (NRQ) RoS stream25 years2 dates, 21–28 Jan 2027Virtual
  • Positions 1 → 2 from the 2026 match

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
Regular stream, CaRMS program 30176Sherbrooke - Psychiatrie95 years2 dates as the CaRMS page writes them
Regular stream, CaRMS program 30889Sherbrooke - Psychiatrie15 years2 dates as the CaRMS page writes them
The 2026 page of the Regular stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The Université de Sherbrooke Psychiatry Postdoctoral Program aims to train versatile psychiatrists capable of providing high-quality psychiatric care.
  • Since 2020, the program has transitioned to Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME), offering innovative pedagogical approaches and comprehensive clinical exposure across various psychiatric settings.
Research
Residents are given half a day per week for research activities and are encouraged to engage in research projects throughout their training.
Training setting
Training occurs primarily at two main sites: CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS in Sherbrooke and CH Charles-Lemoyne in Greenfield Park, with additional stages in other hospitals and clinical settings.
Teaching approach
The program emphasizes progressive skill development, interprofessional collaboration, and comprehensive clinical exposure across various psychiatric contexts, focusing on developing competent, adaptable psychiatrists.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • Standardized interview stations
  • Academic record
  • Motivation letter
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Standardized reference forms
  • COPE exam
  • 360-degree evaluations
  • Clinical performance assessments

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 directors
Program office

Secrétaire de direction

Write to the officepostdoc-psychiatrie-med@usherbrooke.ca

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

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

Psychiatry elsewhere

Nearest to Sherbrooke

  • Montreal - Psychiatry, MontréalUniversité de Montréal

    Montreal · 131 km

    15 positions · Regular

  • Montreal - Psychiatry, McGillMcGill University

    Montreal · 131 km

    10 positions · Regular

    Bilingual
  • Québec - PsychiatryUniversité Laval

    Québec · 165 km

    13 positions · Regular

In these collections:

Source

The Regular stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 14 Oct 2026 · The Regular (NRQ) RoS stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 14 Oct 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 35544 (Regular stream), 37217 (Regular (NRQ) RoS 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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