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Val d'Or - Médecine familiale

Université McGillVal d'Or, QuebecRegular stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved date not on file

From the 2026 match (R-1 2026). See the 2027 version

Positions (approx. quota)
5 positions
Length
2 years
Stream
Regular
Discipline
Médecine familiale
Applications per year
51–200
Applicants offered interviews
51–75%
Accreditation
Not stated on CaRMS page
CaRMS program ID
29479

Bands are 5-year averages the program reports to CaRMS. They describe past cycles, not your odds.

Summary

The GMF-U of Vallée-de-l'Or is a unique and friendly training environment for becoming a versatile and competent family physician. The curriculum provides quality exposure to acute intra-hospital care and technical procedures, with an interesting number of elective rotations for those seeking to acquire specific expertise during their training.

Training

Research
Mandatory critical evaluation/quality of care project, with additional opportunities for interested residents to engage in research projects.
Training setting
CISSS de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue in Val-d'Or, primarily at the Val-d'Or Hospital Center and the GMF-U of Vallée-de-l'Or, serving eastern Abitibi and some Algonquin and Cree communities.
Teaching approach
Competency-based medical education focused on developing autonomous, polyvalent family physicians through progressive, integrated learning experiences that mirror real-world medical practice.
Setting types
  • Rural hospital
  • Family medicine teaching unit
  • Community health center
Focus areas
  • Family Medicine
  • Rural Medicine
  • Comprehensive Primary Care
  • Community Health
Patient populations
  • Eastern Abitibi residents
  • Algonquin communities
  • Cree communities of James Bay
  • Rural and remote populations
Highlights
  • Horizontal integration of skills over 2 years
  • Longitudinal exposure to diverse clinical settings
  • Mandatory critical evaluation/quality of care project
  • Optional research opportunities
  • Potential advanced skills programs in emergency medicine, geriatrics, palliative care, sports medicine, maternal/child health
Strengths
  • Small resident cohorts allowing personalized teaching
  • Comprehensive clinical exposure
  • Strong emphasis on continuity of care
  • Multilingual training environment
  • Supportive teaching team
Enhanced skills
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Care of the Elderly
  • Palliative Care
  • Sports Medicine
  • Maternal/Child Health
  • Hospital Medicine
  • Clinician Scholar Program

By year

PGY-1
  • EmergencyVal-d'Or Hospital1 period
  • ObstetricsVal-d'Or Hospital1 period
  • Super Bloc GMF-UVal-d'OrMultiple periods
PGY-2
  • Elective RotationsResident's choice5 periods
  • Pediatric AmbulatoryVal-d'Or1 period
  • Selective StageVal-d'Or2 weeks per specialty
  • Super Bloc GMF-UVal-d'OrMultiple periods

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at
  • Academic performance
  • Reference letters
  • Personal letter
  • CV
  • Interview performance
  • Clinical skills
  • Communication abilities
  • French language proficiency
Applications per year
51–200
Applicants offered interviews
51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match)
3 février 2026; 4 février 2026

Programs can change interview dates. Confirm on carms.ca.

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$58,728 / year
PGY-2
$64,809 / year

One provincial scale for Quebec, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 2 levels this program covers.

Benefits

Benefits as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024; check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

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

Call

Call (provincial max)
6 calls in an establishment per 28 days

The union agreement’s cap for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. Check with the program.

FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028.

Teaching sites

  • Centre Hospitalier de Val-d'Or
  • GMF-U de la Vallée-de-l'Or

Hospital facts

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

Centre Hospitalier de Val-d'Or

Matched to Hôpital de Val-d'Or (Val-d'Or) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 11,299 · 2026–2027: 11,152 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
physical health 73 · geriatrics 8 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.

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.)

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 8 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 8 of 9 years.

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: Val d'Or.

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 available3 positions open after round 2 in 2018, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20195 positions open after round 1 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)2 positions open after round 2 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20203 positions open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)2 positions open after round 2 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20213 positions open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)3 positions open after round 2 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20221 position open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)1 position open after round 2 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20234 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20245 positions open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)4 positions open after round 2 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20255 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)3 positions open after round 2 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20262 positions open after round 1 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)3 positions open after round 2 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)

CaRMS’s first-round list for 2018 was not found, so round 1 is counted over 8 years and round 2 over 9.

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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. Verify with the CaRMS lists. 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)). 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.

Contacts

Contacts weren't collected for the 2026 match.

The current program director and contacts are on the 2027 version of this program and on the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab).

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Location

Val d'Or, Quebec

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About the city

Public statistics for the place named by this program’s location label, each with its source and reference period. They describe the place, not the program, and are not a ranking. Check each source before you rely on it.

Climate

Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020. Each value comes from the nearest weather station that reports it, not from the city itself.

January average
−16.3 °C Val-D'or, 7.4 km away
July average
17.7 °C Val-D'or, 7.4 km away
Snowfall
not reported No weather station within 100 km reports it
Days below −20 °C
56.6 days a year Val-D'or, 7.4 km away

People

2021 Census. Figures are for the municipality of Val-d'Or, not the metropolitan area. Statistics Canada rounds counts, so small places are approximate.

Population
32,752 people up 0.8% from 2016
Official languages
English only 0.9% · French only 63.5% · English and French 35.5% · neither 0.1% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants
2.3% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 0.7% · non-permanent residents: 0.8%
Indigenous identity
5.2% of residents
How people commute
car, truck or van 89.6% · public transit 0.4% · walking or cycling 6.2% · other 3.8% Average commute: 16.5 minutes. Shares are of people who commute.The way Canadians commute was altered in 2021 by the pandemic, with lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19 and changes in how and where Canadians worked leading to 2.8 million fewer commuters, compared with five years earlier. Statistics Canada, The Daily, 30 Nov 2022(opens in a new tab)
Median household income
$75,500 before tax $64,500 after tax · income year 2020, in 2020 dollars

Rural and remote

This describes the place named by the program’s location label. Programs can train in several towns, so it is not every site.

Population centre
Val-d'Or, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people) 25,473 people in 2021
Remoteness index
0.363 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.
Student loan forgiveness
Family medicine here may qualify for up to $60,000 of Canada Student Loan forgiveness. Eligibility depends on the postal code of where you work: check the official postal-code lookup. Postal-code lookup(opens in a new tab)

Housing, cost and work

Each figure names the area it covers. A missing line means the source publishes nothing for this area.

Rental vacancy rate
1.0% October 2025 survey, Val-d'Or, Quebec (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living
$46,852 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Quebec, population 30,000 to 99,999, for two adults with two children. A modest, basic basket (the poverty line), not a resident’s budget. A size-class region is not the town itself.

Job outlook

Employment and Social Development Canada’s rating for the occupation in the economic region. It is not a count of jobs, and says nothing about CaRMS positions or your match.

Outlook, 2025–2027
Good The employment outlook will be Good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the Abitibi - Témiscamingue region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033
Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for general practitioners and family physicians, 2024–2033. Recent conditions, 2021–2023: Strong signs of Shortage.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
  • Adapted from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey, October 2025 (vacancy rates), and Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0132-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), 2024 to 2033 projections).
  • Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, 3-Year Employment Outlooks).
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Index of Remoteness (17-26-0001), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, Canada Student Loan Forgiveness (Canada.ca), page dated 2026-06-03.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0066-01 Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for the reference family by Market Basket Measure region, component and base year, 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0011-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0002-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0057-01 Household income statistics by household type: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0173-01 Mother tongue by knowledge of official languages: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0266-01 Indigenous identity by Registered or Treaty Indian status: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0307-01 Immigrant status and period of immigration by place of birth: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0458-01 Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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 5 Oct 2026.