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General Surgery residency programs in Canada

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

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).

20 general surgery programs are in the 2027 R-1 match, at 18 schools in 8 provinces. Together they state 105 positions. All are 5 years. 5 are IMG-stream listings and 4 are open to all applicants.

Programs

20

19 program sites

Positions stated

105

Every program states one

Schools

18

in 8 provinces, 18 places

IMG stream

5

listings

and 4 open to all

By province

How many positions were there in 2026?

In the 2026 R-1 match, CaRMS reported 93 positions in General Surgery and 0.96 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 5 years. Filter these programs on the Programs page

Newfoundland and Labrador 1 program · 4 positions stated · 1 school

Nova Scotia 1 program · 5 positions stated · 1 school

Quebec 4 programs · 20 positions stated · 4 schools

Ontario 9 programs · 47 positions stated · 7 schools

The 9 programs are on a page of their own, with where you would train and the province’s pay. All 9 general surgery programs in Ontario

Manitoba 1 program · 4 positions stated · 1 school

Saskatchewan 1 program · 4 positions stated · 1 school

Alberta 2 programs · 13 positions stated · 2 schools

British Columbia 1 program · 8 positions stated · 1 school

General Surgery in our collections

Videos and podcasts about general 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 They may be out of date.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.