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des Aurores Boréales - Family Medicine

Université de Montréaldes Aurores Boréales, QuebecRegular stream

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CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 8 Sep 2026 · See the 2026 version

2027 match programs, from CaRMS as of 5 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).

Positions (approx. quota)
6 positions
Length
2 years
Stream
Regular
Discipline
Family Medicine
Applications per year
401–600
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%
Accreditation
Accredited
CaRMS program ID
35617

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

Summary

  • This is a 2-year Université de Montréal family medicine residency based at the CUMF Les Aurores Boréales.
  • Residents complete 8 family medicine periods in first year and 7 in second, plus 12 weeks of emergency medicine and an 8-week regional medicine rotation.
  • A two-year scholarly project (research, knowledge transfer or quality improvement) is mandatory.

Training

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
Sites

2 teaching sites

  • CUMF Les Aurores Boréales
  • Ste-Justine
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project
Training language
French
Enhanced skills
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Care of the Elderly
  • Palliative Care
  • Clinician Scholar / Research
  • Addiction Medicine
  • Sport and Exercise Medicine
  • Maternity and Newborn Care
Highlights
  • Longitudinal follow-up of six pregnant patients, including attending the delivery and following the children.

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • médecine de famille (1ère année de résidence · 8 périodes)
  • médecine de famille (2 e année · 7 périodes)
  • Urgence (12 semaines)
  • unité d'hospitalisation de médecine familiale (6 à 8 semaines)
  • cardiologie et unité coronarienne (4 semaines)
  • obstétrique-périnatalité (4 semaines)
  • Soins palliatifs en établissement, clinique externe et à domicile (4 semaines)
  • Urgence à Ste-Justine (4 semaines · Ste-Justine)
  • Hospitalisation et ambulatoire (4 semaines)
  • Stage en médecine en région (8 semaines)
  • Option (12 semaines)
  • Stage de nuit/gardes de nuit

Selection

Application file components
  • Extra-curricular
  • Leadership skills
  • CV
  • Reference documents
  • MSPRs
  • Examinations
  • Personal letters
  • Research/Publications
  • Transcripts
  • Electives
  • Other file component(s)
Return of service
Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.
IMG requirements
  • Recent clinical experience (within 4 years)
  • Observerships don’t count as clinical experience
  • “l’entrevue de ces candidats comportera aussi 3 cas cliniques de type ECOS.”
Applications per year
401–600
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)
19, 20, 21, 22 and 26 Jan 2027
Mode
Virtual
Format
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$58,728 / year
PGY-2
$64,809 / year

One provincial scale for Quebec, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 2 levels this program covers.

Benefits

Benefits as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024; check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Adoption leave
29 to 38 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Annual vacation
20 days/year
Assistant Resident Coordinator
$425/month
Call Premium
$607/28 days
Conference leave
7 days pd/year
Dental Plan
Yes, available for a fee
Exam leave
Day (s) of the exam
Extended Health Insurance
Yes
Leave for death in family
From 1 to 5 days depending on the family member
Leave of absence without pay (exceptional measure)
12 months maximum
Life insurance
Yes
Long-Term disability insurance
Yes
Maternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP*) and FMRQ **
21 weeks95 % of salary
Meals
Reduced feeFree during on-call duty
Pager
Provided by the establishment
Parental leave (time sharing between parents)
19 to 29 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Parking
½ of doctors’ feeFree during on-call duty
Paternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP) and FMRQ
1 week, 100% of salary3 to 5 weeks, 100% of salary(two options)
Professional Liability Insurance****(CPMA not applicable)
Yes (free)
Quebec Health Insurance Program / RAMQ***
Yes
Resident Coordinator
$583/month
Resuscitation courses and examination leave
Day of the course and of the exam, course paid
Sick leave
9.6 days pd / yearAnd reimbursement of days not taken
Statutory and floating holidays
13/year
Study leave
10 days pd/year
Superior Financial Programs
Yes
Teaching Premium
$240/28 days
Wedding leave
7 days paid + 7 days without pay

Call

Call (provincial max)
6 calls in an establishment per 28 days

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

FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028.

Teaching sites

  • CUMF Les Aurores Boréales
  • Ste-Justine

Hospital facts

Public figures for hospitals named above, each with its source and reference period. They describe the hospital, not the program, and are not a ranking. We match names to the province’s lists by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

Ste-Justine

Matched to CHU Sainte-Justine (Montréal) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits
2025–2026: 27,172 · 2026–2027: 27,007 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds
physical health 333 · psychiatry 19 · neonatology 66 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Sources and licences

  • Contient de l'information fournie par le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec et visée par CC BY 4.0. Données modifiées. (Contains information provided by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec under CC BY 4.0. Data modified.)

Unfilled positions in past years

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

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: des Aurores Boréales.

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 available5 positions open after round 2 in 2018, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20196 positions open after round 1 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)4 positions open after round 2 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20204 positions open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)3 positions open after round 2 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20216 positions open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)6 positions open after round 2 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20226 positions open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)6 positions open after round 2 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20236 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)6 positions open after round 2 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20245 positions open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)4 positions open after round 2 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20254 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)4 positions open after round 2 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20266 positions open after round 1 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)7 positions open after round 2 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)

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

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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. Verify with the CaRMS lists. 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)). 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.

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

admission@medfam.umontreal.ca

Sonia Bellefleur · Personne contact du programme

(514) 343-6111, poste 80936

Program directors

Site staffdirectors and coordinators at the teaching sites

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

More links

Location

des Aurores Boréales, Quebec

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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 6 Oct 2026.