Victoria - Family Medicine

University of British ColumbiaVictoria, British ColumbiaIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 11 Sep 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 6 positions
Length: 2 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 201–400
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 30209

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

Summary

The Victoria Site offers a comprehensive two-year Family Medicine residency program that prepares graduates to confidently provide services in diverse patient care settings. Located in Victoria, British Columbia, the program provides extensive training across urban, semi-urban, and rural environments, emphasizing community-based healthcare and serving under-serviced populations.

Training

Research

Residents must complete a scholar project and present their work at the annual Scholarship Day.

Training setting

Based in the Capital Regional District with training across Greater Victoria, surrounding communities like Sooke, Sidney, and Duncan, utilizing community family practices and two major hospitals with 950 acute care beds.

Teaching approach

Competency-based medical education focusing on developing skilled primary care physicians with professional flexibility, lifelong learning, and a commitment to comprehensive community-based healthcare.

Setting types

Academic medical center
Community hospitals
Rural clinics
Urban family practices

Focus areas

Community-based primary care
Rural medicine
Urban family practice
Comprehensive community health care
Under-serviced population care

Patient populations

Urban patients
Rural community patients
Inner-city core populations
Vulnerable populations
Diverse community settings

Highlights

Mandatory 2-month rural rotation
Optional Enhanced Rural training (4-6 months)
Interprovincial or international electives
Scholarship Day in June
Quality improvement project
Evidence-based medicine emphasis

Strengths

Distributed training across 23 sites
Strong academic and administrative support
High graduate preparedness
Diverse training environments
Resident wellness prioritization

Enhanced skills

Emergency Medicine
Care of the Elderly
Anesthesia
Palliative Medicine
Sports and Exercise Medicine
Clinician Scholars program

By year

PGY-1

Integrated Family Practice/Obstetrics/ Women’s HealthThe equivalent of 8 weeks of preceptor attached Community Family Practice combined with some Family Practice acute hospital care on the hospitalist service spread out over 16 weeks.For the Obstetrics and Women’s Health component, the encompassing Obstetrics and Gynecology, including Labor and Delivery shifts, Ante-partum care, Postpartum care, specialty Gynecology clinics, FP Pre-Natal clinics and FP oriented Women’s Health clinics spread out over 16 weeks.LDR overnight in-hospital call (average 1 per month)16 weeks
In Hospital General Care4 weeks Internal Medicine CTU – overnight in-hospital call (average 1:4)2 weeks Hospitalist (Family Practice) and overnight in-hospital call (average 1:4)6 weeks
Introduction to Family MedicineEarly family practice clinic exposure, extra academic sessions on family practice approach to certain conditions, exposure to FP hospital medicine with FP Hospitalists4 weeks
EmergencyBased in the Cowichan District Hospital (Duncan) or Royal Jubilee and Victoria General Hospitals (Victoria).4 weeks
Care of ChildrenIn-Patient Pediatrics CTU at Victoria General Hospital, may include some ambulatory care as available in the community.Overnight in-hospital call (Average 1:4)4 weeks
Concentrated Family Practice1 block of time in attached community FP preceptor’s office without any additional call responsibilities or other seminars besides AHD.4 weeks
ElectivesElectives may be split up into two 2-week blocks or one 4 week block.4 weeks
Labour & Delivery ShiftsIn Hospital exposure to Labour & Delivery shifts and overnight in-hospital call (average 1:4)2 weeks
Cardiac CarePrimarily In-Hospital Cardiac Medicine; may include some ambulatory care2 weeks
Addictions MedicineIncludes 1 week of inpatient addictions consultations, and 1 week of outpatient addictions treatment and will include option for certifying in suboxone prescribing course.Call expectations determined by rotation2 weeks

PGY-2

Family practice (Rural Block)8 weeks of family practice in a rural setting in communities across the province,OR16 weeks in total with reduction Family Medicine urban componentCall expectations determined by rotation8 or 16 weeks
Family MedicineThe equivalent of 14 weeks (reduced if doing Enhanced Rural) of Family Practice experience with attached urban preceptor(s)Call expectations of one overnight in-hospital call on average every two weeks (Hospitalist Service)Call expectations determined by Preceptor for Family Practice on call14 weeks total
Elective Block8 weeks of blocked electives8 weeks
Palliative Care4 weeks of Palliative Care in Hospice Victoria or Duncan.Call expectations determined by rotation4 weeks
Surgical SelectivesICU or Trauma for 2 weeks and Surgical selective of 2 weeksOR2 x 2 weeks of Surgical SelectiveCall expectations determined by rotation4 weeks
Elective - Family Medicine Selective4 weeks of family medicine selectives (opportunities may be focused on longitudinal exposure)4 weeks
Transition to Practice (TTP)4 weeks of complete office immersion, penultimate or ultimate block of residency4 weeks
BATSCombination of Anaesthesia in Victoria and Duncan, Sexual Health, Wedge excisions, Lumps and Bumps2 week
Psychiatry2 weeks of Psychiatry blockCall expectations determined by rotation2 weeks
MSK Medicine2 weeks of ambulatory Orthopedics/ Sports/Physical/Rehab Medicine/ Rheumatology2 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

File review (50%)
MMI interview (45%)
FMProC score (5%)

Applications per year

201–400

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 17, 17–27, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 28 Jan 2026; 8 Feb 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 2 Sep 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Salaries from April 2027.

Annual salary by PGY level, British Columbia
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$71,390 / year
PGY-2	$79,571 / year

One provincial scale for British Columbia, 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)

Annual vacation: 4 weeks
CMPA dues paid: Yes. Mandatory
Dental plan: 100% Premiums Paid
Educational leave: Yes
Extended health insurance: 100% Premiums Paid
Frequency of calls: 1 in 4 onsite/1 in 3 offsite
Life insurance: 100% Premium Paid
Long-term disability insurance: Yes 100% Premiums Paid
Maternity leave: 17 weeks, plus up to 78 weeks Parental Leave
Meal allowance: No
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1.5%
Provincial health insurance: 100% Premiums Paid
Sick leave: Yes
Statutory holidays: 2 x pay plus extra day with pay

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 in 4 in-house

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

RDBC agreement, 1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2029.

Teaching sites

Royal Jubilee Hospital
Victoria General Hospital
Cowichan District Hospital

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.

Royal Jubilee Hospital

Matched to Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 14,532 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 3,973 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Victoria General Hospital

Matched to Victoria General Hospital (Victoria) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 8,131 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 2,108 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Cowichan District Hospital

Matched to Cowichan District Hospital (Duncan) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 5,070 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 1,443 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

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).

Location

Victoria, British Columbia

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: 5.8 °C Victoria Gonzales (City), 2.8 km away
July average: 16.3 °C Victoria Gonzales (City), 2.8 km away
Snowfall: 38.6 cm a year Victoria (Airport), 25.2 km away
Days below −20 °C: 0.0 days a year Victoria Gonzales (City), 2.8 km away

People

2021 Census. Figures are for the municipality of Victoria, not the metropolitan area. Statistics Canada rounds counts, so small places are approximate.

Population: 91,867 people up 7.1% from 2016
Official languages: English only 86.0% · French only 0.0% · English and French 13.2% · neither 0.8% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 20.0% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 3.5% · non-permanent residents: 3.0%
Indigenous identity: 5.0% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 53.3% · public transit 11.1% · walking or cycling 32.1% · other 3.5% Average commute: 18.7 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: $67,500 before tax $60,000 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: Victoria, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 363,222 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.144 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.

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: 3.3% October 2025 survey, Victoria, British Columbia (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $59,363 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, British Columbia, population 100,000 to 499,999, 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.
Unemployment rate: 5.3% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Victoria, British Columbia (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.6 points. A survey estimate.

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 Vancouver Island and Coast 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 34-10-0130-01. 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.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0459-01 Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted, reference month 2026-09. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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.

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