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London - Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine

Western UniversityLondon, OntarioCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

At a glance

Approx. quota
1 position
Length
1 year
Applications per year
0–50
Offered interviews
76–100%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

1 date, 14 Oct 2026virtual

London, 2 teaching sites

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Required advocacy initiative with dedicated time at a community organization chosen by the resident.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Late blocks give residents junior attending roles on consult and outpatient addiction services.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • Rotations take place at London Health Sciences Centre, St Joseph’s Hospital and other settings in Southwestern Ontario.
  • Residents must complete a scholarly project presented at resident research day and take part in a community advocacy initiative.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • Underserved urban
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Transition to Addiction Medicine Enhanced Skills Prorgam
  • Infectious Disease
  • Withdrawal Management and Emergency Medicine
  • Primary care for people who use substances, and for vulnerable populations
  • Intro to Outpatient Addictions with Perinatal Addictions Exposures
  • Outpatient Addictions
  • Addiction and Complex Psychiatry
  • Addiction Medicine Consult
  • Elective
  • Selective, with options in Perinatal Addictions, Indigenous Health, Primary Care for Vulnerable populations, Other options pending availability
  • Addiction Medicine Consult Service
  • Addiction Medicine Consult, , junior attending roles
  • Outpatient Addictions Medicine, junior attending roles

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

Where you train

London, Ontario: 2 teaching sites.

  • London Health Sciences Centre
  • St Joseph’s Hospital - London

Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1 of 2; no published record for 1.

Hospital facts

1 site · clinical record systems where an official source states them

What official sources say for hospitals named above, each with its source and the date we read it. They describe the hospital, not the program. We match names to the sources by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

London Health Sciences Centre

Clinical record
OneChart (Cerner electronic patient record), system named (how far it goes is not stated) As of 31 Oct 2026

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

Hospital size and activity: Ontario doesn't publish this as open data.

About London

  • People

    422,324residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of London

  • Housing

    3.8%rental vacancy rate

    October 2025 survey, London, Ontario (census metropolitan area)

  • Winter and summer

    −5.4 °CJanuary mean21.0 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, London, 10.3 km away

  • Job outlook

    not published for this specialty

More about London (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
  • CV
  • Electives
  • Examinations
  • Extra-curricular
  • Leadership skills
  • MSPRs
  • Personal letters
  • Reference documents
  • Research/Publications
  • Transcripts
Return of service
Required · IMGs only

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
14 Oct 2026
Format
Virtual
  • Panel

Interview dates and format are as the program wrote them.

Pay and call

Provincial scale, last updated 6 Jan 2025 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab). Contract expired, may change. One provincial scale for Ontario, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$85,564 / year

How provincial pay and rent compare

Call

Call (provincial max)
7 nights in 28 in-house
Post-call rule (provincial)
No new patient responsibilities after 24 hours in-hospital, except what clinical handover needs
Max continuous duty (provincial)
24 hours in-hospital, then relieved after handover (up to 2 hours)

The union agreement’s limits and rules for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. PARO agreement, 1 Jul 2023 to 30 Jun 2026. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed. Read as of 1 Oct 2026.

Contacts and links

Program directors
Program office

Postgraduate Program Coordinator

Email on the CaRMS page(opens in a new tab)

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

Enhanced Skills Program Webpage(opens in a new tab)The Department of Family Medicine(opens in a new tab)The College of Family Physicians of Canada(opens in a new tab)The Canadian Society for Addiction Medicine(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to London

Source

The program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab) · FM/ES 2027 match · last approved 15 Jul 2026.

Accredited · CaRMS program ID 37023 · How these pages are made ›

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 8 Oct 2026.

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