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Cardiac Surgery residency programs in Canada

2027 R-1 match · CaRMS program descriptions read 19 Oct 2026 · In French: Chirurgie cardiaque

2027 programs aren’t final yetDetails

2027 match programs, from CaRMS as of 19 Oct 2026. Programs can still change until file review opens 26 November; we re-check every two weeks. Always confirm on CaRMS (opens in a new tab).

12 cardiac surgery programs are in the 2027 R-1 match, at 12 schools in 6 provinces. Together they state 13 positions. All are 6 years. 3 are open to all applicants.

Programs

12

12 program sites

Positions stated

13

Every program states one

Schools

12

in 6 provinces, 11 places

IMG stream

0

listings

and 3 open to all

By province

How many positions were there in 2026?

In the 2026 R-1 match, CaRMS reported 12 positions in Cardiac Surgery and 0.52 positions per CMG who ranked it first (first iteration). Every discipline on Match data

Positions left open after each round, year by year, are on Trends. Pay by province and year of training is on Provinces compared.

Where are the programs?

Provinces in Statistics Canada’s order. Within a province, schools A to Z. Every program here is 6 years. Filter these programs on the Programs page

Nova Scotia 1 program · 1 position stated · 1 school

Quebec 3 programs · 4 positions stated · 3 schools

Ontario 4 programs · 4 positions stated · 4 schools

Manitoba 1 program · 1 position stated · 1 school

Alberta 2 programs · 2 positions stated · 2 schools

British Columbia 1 program · 1 position stated · 1 school

Cardiac Surgery in our collections

Videos and podcasts about cardiac surgery residency

Public podcast episodes and videos about this specialty, some about residency in Canada and some for students choosing a specialty. The short descriptions are ours; each link goes to the original.

These are public recordings, reviewed by hand and linked here, not endorsed. They may be out of date. Confirm with the program.

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A program counts once however many streams it has (CMG, IMG and the others are the tags on its row). Positions are the quotas each stream states; a program that states none is not counted as zero, and a quota two streams of one program both state, as the University of Manitoba’s Competitive pairs do, is counted once. Counted from the 2027 program pages read 19 Oct 2026. The 2026 programs are on the Programs page. CdnMD is independent of CaRMS: confirm everything on carms.ca (opens in a new tab). Found a mistake? Open the program’s page and use “Report a problem”; fixes are listed on Corrections.