Brandon - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine

University of ManitobaBrandon, ManitobaCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

Contacts and 2 more links

Open on carms.ca

CaRMS program description, FM/ES 2027 match, last approved 27 Jul 2026

Positions (approx. quota): 3 positions
Length: 1 year
Stream: Competitive
Discipline: Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine
Applications per year: 51–200
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 34594

Bands are 5-year averages the program reports to CaRMS. They describe past cycles, not your odds.

Summary

This 1-year CCFP-EM program prepares family medicine graduates for the CCFP-EM Certification in Emergency Medicine.
Residents are based at Brandon Regional Health Centre, including 20 weeks of community/regional emergency medicine, with rotations at Winnipeg tertiary centres.

Training

Setting

Regional community
Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural / remote

Sites

7 teaching sites

Brandon Regional Health Centre
Health Sciences Centre
St. Boniface Hospital

Show all 7

Children's Hospital
Selkirk Regional Health Centre
Portage District General Hospital
Thompson General Hospital

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Required rural rotation (4 weeks)

Focus areas

POCUS curriculum
Procedural emphasis

Research

Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project

Getting around

A car is recommended
Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
Travel is reimbursed

Highlights

Brandon residents rotate through Clinical Coaching Teams of three CCFP(EM) preceptors for consistent feedback.
High-volume primary stroke management with virtual Telestroke neurology at a regional stroke centre.
Residents use handheld Butterfly IQ ultrasound devices to build POCUS resuscitation skills over the year.

By year

Year 3

Emergency Medicine (Community/Regional)Brandon Regional Health Centre20 weeks
Anaesthesia (Adult)Brandon Regional Health Centre4 weeks
TraumaGold Surgery - HSC Winnipeg4 weeks
Emergency Medicine (Tertiary)Health Sciences Centre or St. Boniface Hospital4 weeks
Emergency Medicine (Rural)Thompson, Portage la Prairie, or Selkirk4 weeks
Pediatric Emergency MedicineChildren's Hospital4 weeks
Medical/Surgical ICUBrandon Regional Health Centre4 weeks
Medical or Surgical ICUHSC or St. Boniface General Hospital4 weeks
Cardiology/CCUSt Boniface General Hospital.4 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

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

Applications per year

51–200

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (FM/ES 2027 match)

14 and 15 Oct 2026

Mode

Virtual

Format

Panel

Programs can change interview dates. Confirm on carms.ca.

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 22 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Manitoba
Level	Annual salary
PGY-3	$83,372 / year

One provincial scale for Manitoba, 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.

Call

Call (provincial max): 7 calls per 4-week block, in-house and home call combined

The union agreement’s cap for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. Check with the program.

PARIM agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

Brandon Regional Health Centre (Brandon)
Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)
St. Boniface Hospital (Winnipeg)
Children's Hospital (Winnipeg)
Selkirk Regional Health Centre (Selkirk · rural or distributed site)
Portage District General Hospital (Portage la Prairie · rural or distributed site)
Thompson General Hospital (Thompson · rural or distributed site)

Hospital facts

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

Contacts

Grouped by the titles CaRMS lists. The program office (administrators and coordinators) usually answers questions about the program and applying; the director leads the training.

Program officeadministrators and coordinators

emergmed.ccfp@umanitoba.ca

Theia Clarke · CCFP-EM Program Administrator

204-272-3060

Jocelyn Beever
Administrative Coordinator
Jocelyn.Beever@umanitoba.ca
204-578-4215
Collette Thiessen
Enhanced Skills Program Administrator
Collette.Thiessen@umanitoba.ca

Program director

Dr. Robert Gourlay
Program Director
robert.gourlay@umanitoba.ca

Site staffdirectors and coordinators at the teaching sites

Dr Jason Kilimnik
Site Lead
jason.kilimnik@umanitoba.ca

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

Location

Brandon, Manitoba

About the city

Public statistics for the place named by this program’s location label, each with its source and reference period. They describe the place, not the program, and are not a ranking. Check each source before you rely on it.

Climate

Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020. Each value comes from the nearest weather station that reports it, not from the city itself.

January average: −16.7 °C Brandon, 7.4 km away
July average: 18.4 °C Brandon, 7.4 km away
Snowfall: 128.2 cm a year Brandon, 7.4 km away
Days below −20 °C: 53.3 days a year Brandon, 7.4 km away

People

2021 Census. Figures are for the municipality of Brandon, not the metropolitan area. Statistics Canada rounds counts, so small places are approximate.

Population: 51,313 people up 5.0% from 2016
Official languages: English only 92.9% · French only 0.0% · English and French 4.8% · neither 2.2% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 18.1% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 5.5% · non-permanent residents: 2.3%
Indigenous identity: 14.2% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 89.9% · public transit 3.5% · walking or cycling 5.6% · other 1.1% Average commute: 14.6 minutes. Shares are of people who commute.The way Canadians commute was altered in 2021 by the pandemic, with lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19 and changes in how and where Canadians worked leading to 2.8 million fewer commuters, compared with five years earlier. Statistics Canada, The Daily, 30 Nov 2022(opens in a new tab)
Median household income: $76,000 before tax $66,000 after tax · income year 2020, in 2020 dollars

Rural and remote

This describes the place named by the program’s location label. Programs can train in several towns, so it is not every site.

Population centre: Brandon, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 50,532 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.329 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.

Housing, cost and work

Each figure names the area it covers. A missing line means the source publishes nothing for this area.

Basic cost of living: $53,331 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Brandon, Manitoba, for two adults with two children. A modest, basic basket (the poverty line), not a resident’s budget. A size-class region is not the town itself.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Index of Remoteness (17-26-0001), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0066-01 Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for the reference family by Market Basket Measure region, component and base year, 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0011-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0002-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0057-01 Household income statistics by household type: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0173-01 Mother tongue by knowledge of official languages: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0266-01 Indigenous identity by Registered or Treaty Indian status: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0307-01 Immigrant status and period of immigration by place of birth: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0458-01 Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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.