Victoriaville - Médecine familiale

Université de SherbrookeVictoriaville, 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: 201–400
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Not stated on CaRMS page
CaRMS program ID: 29903

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

Summary

The Université de Sherbrooke Family Medicine Residency Program at Victoriaville offers a comprehensive two-year training that allows residents to become competent in all family medicine care domains through longitudinal exposure. The program provides a flexible curriculum that enables residents to explore areas of interest while being supported by an academic mentor.

Training

Research

Residents can complete a quality improvement project or research project during their training.

Training setting

Training primarily occurs at the GMF-U de Victoriaville and Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska, located in Victoriaville. The program offers exposure to various clinical settings including primary care, emergency, hospital, and community health centers.

Teaching approach

The program emphasizes competency-based medical education with progressive independence, focusing on developing comprehensive family physicians capable of providing continuous, patient-centered care across different clinical domains.

Setting types

Family Medicine Clinic
Community Hospital
Teaching Clinic

Focus areas

Family Medicine
Primary Care
Comprehensive Care
Continuous Care
Acute Care
Chronic Disease Management

Patient populations

Pediatric patients
Geriatric patients
Acute care patients
Chronic disease patients
Mental health patients
Obstetric patients
Palliative care patients

Highlights

Integrated program with longitudinal stages
Weekly academic sessions
Scientific activities
Doctor-patient relationship workshops
Quality improvement project or research project
Optional stages in various settings
Advanced skills training opportunities

Strengths

12 teaching family medicine units
Flexible curriculum
Comprehensive clinical exposure
Strong academic support
Multiple optional stage opportunities
Advanced skills training

Enhanced skills

Care of Elderly
Palliative Care
Clinician Scholar
Emergency Medicine
Sports Medicine and Exercise
Perinatal Care

By year

PGY-1

UNITÉ DE MÉDECINE DE FAMILLE*GMF-U de Victoriaville10 périodes**
OPTIONVoir Stages optionnels2 périodes
UrgenceHôtel-Dieu d’Arthabaska1 période

PGY-2

UNITÉ DE MÉDECINE DE FAMILLEGMF-U de Victoriaville8 périodes
UNITÉ EXTÉRIEUREVoir Unité extérieure2 périodes
OPTIONVoir Stages optionnels1 période
3E SÉLECTIFEn GMF-U ou à la même unité extérieure de 2 périodes1 période
UNITÉ DE MÉDECINE INTERNEHôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska1 période

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

CProMF exam
CV
Motivation letter
Medical school transcript
Reference letters
Interview performance

Applications per year

201–400

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 23 janvier 2026; 27 janvier 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
Level	Annual 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

GMF-U de Victoriaville
Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska

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.

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 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 151 · psychiatry 24 · geriatrics 24 · neonatology 4 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 2 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 2 of 9 years.

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: Victoriaville.

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.
Year	Open after round 1	Open after round 2
2018	not available	0
2019	0	0
2020	0	0
2021	0	0
2022	0	0
2023	0	0
2024	0	0
2025	1 position open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	1 position open after round 2 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
2026	3 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).

Location

Victoriaville, Quebec

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: −10.8 °C Arthabaska, 3.7 km away
July average: 19.4 °C Arthabaska, 3.7 km away
Snowfall: 220.1 cm a year Arthabaska, 3.7 km away
Days below −20 °C: 21.9 days a year Arthabaska, 3.7 km away

People

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

Population: 47,760 people up 3.5% from 2016
Official languages: English only 0.2% · French only 71.9% · English and French 27.5% · neither 0.4% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 3.2% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 0.7% · non-permanent residents: 0.9%
Indigenous identity: 1.1% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 90.4% · public transit 0.5% · walking or cycling 6.9% · other 2.2% Average commute: 15.0 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: $61,200 before tax $54,000 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: Victoriaville, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 46,322 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.152 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)Time-limited: this place meets only the previous community definition, which stays in place “until November 1, 2027 or the day that is 6 months after the day on which a census is published by Statistics Canada, whichever is later”.

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: not published October 2025 survey, Victoriaville, 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 Centre-du-Québec 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.