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Rural Hanover - Family Medicine

Western UniversityRural Hanover, Ontario

Stream

At a glance

Approx. quota
2 positions
1 position
Length
2 years
Applications per year
601+
Offered interviews
76–100%
0–25%

CMG stream · open to Canadian medical graduates

IMG stream · open to international medical graduates

Return of service: Required

IMG requirements: Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program; Observerships don’t count as clinical experience details under How they choose

Info session

all 3 info sessions of this program

Wed 4 Nov 2026,6:30–8:30 pm ESTvia CANPREPP source (opens in a new tab)

Interviews

3 dates, 20–24 Jan 2027virtual

1 date, 15 Jan 2027virtual

Rural Hanover, 1 teaching site · based in a rural community

After residency in Ontario: capitation model, entry capped

Program website(opens in a new tab)X(opens in a new tab)Facebook(opens in a new tab)CANPREPP profile(opens in a new tab)CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab)

What stands out about this program

  • Residents must live in Hanover for PGY2 and practise mostly in a rural family practice.

    From “Program curriculum” on the CaRMS page

  • This is a 2-year family medicine residency at Western University aimed at producing generalists for rural Canada.
  • The first year builds foundations in medicine and surgery, and in the second year residents spend most of their time in a rural family practice, with exposure to the ER, intrapartum obstetrics and inpatient care.
  • Residents must live in Hanover during PGY2.

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

Based on what the program says about itself.

  • You’re open to training at sites across a region, not at one hospital.
    Show the quote

    Residents are required to live in Hanover in their PGY2 year.

Not a ranking.

What training looks like

Setting
  • Rural / remote
Rural exposure
Based in a rural community
Focus areas
  • Rural / remote

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

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

Where you train

Rural Hanover, Ontario: 1 teaching site; based in a rural community.

  • Hanover Medical Clinic (Hanover)

Distributed across a region

Record systems at the listed sites: no published record for 1 of 1.

Hospital facts

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

About Hanover

  • People

    7,967residents, 2021 Census

    Municipality of Hanover

  • Housing

    not published for this area

  • Winter and summer

    −7.1 °CJanuary mean19.4 °CJuly mean

    1991–2020 normals, Mount Forest, 29.4 km away

  • Job outlook

    Very goodfor the specialty here, 2025–2027

More about Hanover (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
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
Return of service
Required
IMG requirements
  • Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program
  • Observerships don’t count as clinical experience

Application file components as each stream’s CaRMS page describes them.

Interviews and info sessions

Interview dates (2027 match)
20, 23 and 24 Jan 2027
Interview dates (2027 match)
15 Jan 2027
Format
Virtual
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)

Info sessions

From the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), read 20 Oct 2026; a row tagged CANPREPP is on CANPREPP’s events calendar (read 24 Oct 2026), alone or as well. Dates and times are as the program wrote them; “your time” is worked out in your browser when your time zone differs. Programs add and change sessions.

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 the 2 levels this program covers.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$73,367 / year
PGY-2
$79,670 / 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.

After residency

Family doctors in Ontario can join a model that pays for enrolled patients, hours worked and visits: the Family Health Organization (FHO), FHO+ since 1 April 2026. A new graduate is a physician who joins a patient enrolment model within three years of completing a family medicine residency; the status runs for 12 months from joining. Entry is capped: 40 physicians a month for FHO, 60 a month for FHO+ in the first year of the 2024-2028 agreement; later years to be determined. Compare provinces

Official pages read 31 Oct 2026.

Past matches

Open after round 1 in 6 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 1 of 9 years.

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

Show the table, with round 2
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 available0
20191 position open after round 1 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20201 position open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20212 positions open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20222 positions 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)
20233 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20243 positions open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
202500
202600

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

What this means

  • 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 or how heavy the workload is.
  • 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.

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)).

Year by year

2027 match

The 2027 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviewsWhat changed
CMG stream22 years3 dates, 20–24 Jan 2027VirtualNothing noted
IMG stream12 years1 date, 15 Jan 2027VirtualNothing noted

2026 match

The 2026 match, one row per stream (scrolls sideways on narrow screens)
StreamPositionsLengthInterviews
CMG stream22 years3 dates, 21–25 Jan 2026
IMG stream12 years1 date, 16 Jan 2026
The 2026 page of the CMG stream: our summary of its CaRMS description
  • The Western University Family Medicine Rural Hanover program is a two-year residency designed to produce comprehensive rural family physicians capable of providing high-quality medical care in both outpatient and hospital environments.
  • The curriculum focuses on developing robust generalists who can meet the current and future healthcare needs of rural Canadians through a progressive training approach.
Research
Not stated on CaRMS page
Training setting
Rural setting in Hanover, Ontario, with training primarily occurring at the Hanover Medical Clinic and local healthcare facilities. Residents are required to live in Hanover during their PGY-2 year.
Teaching approach
Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, focusing on developing comprehensive generalist skills through immersive rural medical experiences and structured academic learning.
Enhanced skills
Not stated on CaRMS page
What the program looked at
  • Medical Student Performance Record
  • Personal letter
  • Reference letters
  • Interview
  • Family Medicine Professional Choices Assessment (FMProC)

Positions, length and interviews as each match’s CaRMS pages stated them; what changed from our comparison of the two matches and our readings of the 2027 pages.

Contacts and links

Program director

  • Dr. Daniel Grushka

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Program office

Postgraduate Program Coordinator

Write to the officejberge33@uwo.ca

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

Program websiteWebsiteXFacebookCANPREPPCANPREPPThe Centre for Studies in Family Medicine(opens in a new tab)Family Medicine Residents of Western(opens in a new tab)The College of Family Physicians of Canada(opens in a new tab)This program on CaRMS(opens in a new tab)

Discussed on Reddit

Public Reddit posts and comments where someone describes this program. Each one links to Reddit.

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Family Medicine elsewhere

Nearest to Rural Hanover

  • Rural Mount Forest - Family MedicineMcMaster University

    Rural Mount Forest · 30 km

    2 positions · CMG, IMG

    Rural
  • Rural Listowel - Family MedicineWestern University

    Rural Listowel · 47 km

    2 positions · CMG, IMG

    Rural
  • Rural-Owen Sound - Family MedicineMcMaster University

    Rural-Owen Sound · 47 km

    3 positions · CMG, IMG

    Rural
In these collections:

Source

The CMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 8 Sep 2026 · The IMG stream’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), last approved 8 Sep 2026 · 2027 match · not final until file review opens 26 November; as of 19 Oct 2026, re-checked every two weeks.

Accredited · CaRMS program IDs 36145 (CMG stream), 36056 (IMG stream) · How these pages are made › · See the 2026 match under Year by year

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 24 Oct 2026.

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