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London - Family Medicine - Emergency 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
8 positions
Length
1 year
Applications per year
51–200
Offered interviews
0–25%

Competitive stream · open to Canadian and international medical graduates

Return of service: Required · IMGs only

Interviews

1 date, 5 Nov 2026virtual

London, 14 teaching sites · optional rural rotation

CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Cadaver-based procedural training in thoracotomy, lateral canthotomy and cricothyroidotomy.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Dedicated POCUS block with WesternSono.

    From “Program highlights” on the CaRMS page

  • Weekly full academic day protected from clinical duties.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This one-year enhanced skills residency in emergency medicine for family medicine graduates is based in London, Ontario.
  • Most blocks, including emergency, ICU, POCUS and pediatrics, are at London Health Sciences Centre, with an anesthesia-EM hybrid block at a community hospital, primarily St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital.
  • Residents must complete a research project and present it at research day.
  • Physicians already in practice are not eligible.

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

What training looks like

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Regional community
Rural exposure
Optional rural rotation
Focus areas
  • POCUS curriculum
  • Procedural emphasis
Research
Required · research project

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • ED (2 Blocks · LHSC with dedicated mentorship)
  • ICU (2 Blocks · Critical Care Trauma Care (CCTC) at LHSC)
  • CCU (1 Block · LHSC)
  • Pediatric ED (2 Blocks · Children's Hospital LHSC, Optional PCCU)
  • POCUS (1 Block · LHSC and WesternSono)
  • Anesthesia Hybrid (1 Block · Community Anesthesia & ED Combined Rotation)
  • Ortho Hybrid (1 Block · SJHC and Sports Medicine Clinic)
  • Plastics (1 Block · Hand and Upper Limb Clinic (HULC) or LHSC)
  • Elective (1 Block · TBD)
  • ED SR (1 Block · Transition to Practice ED Rotation)

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

Where you train

London, Ontario: 14 teaching sites; optional rural rotation.

  • London Health Sciences Centre
  • Children's Hospital LHSC
  • St Josephs Health Care London
  • Fowler Kennedy Sports Medicine Clinics
  • Hand and Upper Limb Clinic (HULC)
  • St Thomas Elgin General Hospital (St. Thomas · rural or distributed site)
  • Huron Perth Hospital Alliance Stratford (Stratford · rural or distributed site)
  • Grey Bruce Health Services Owen Sound (Owen Sound · rural or distributed site)
  • Alexandra Marine General Hospital Goderich (Goderich · rural or distributed site)
  • Chatham Kent Health Alliance (Chatham · rural or distributed site)
  • Sarnia Bluewater Health (Sarnia · rural or distributed site)
  • Windsor Regional Hospital (Windsor · rural or distributed site)
Show all 14 sites
  • Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital (Strathroy · rural or distributed site)
  • Woodstock Hospital (Woodstock · rural or distributed site)

Record systems at the listed sites: Oracle Health (Cerner) at 1 of 14; no published record for 13.

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
  • Other file component(s)
Return of service
Required · IMGs only

Application file components as the program describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
5 Nov 2026
Format
Virtual
  • MMI or rotating station

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

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

Western_CCFP(EM)(opens in a new tab)FMEM CaRMS Presentation(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Family Medicine - Emergency 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 34680 · 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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