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Edmonton - Psychiatry

University of AlbertaEdmonton, AlbertaCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 29 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)
10 positions
Length
5 years
Stream
CMG
Discipline
Psychiatry
Applications per year
51–200
Applicants offered interviews
26–50%
Accreditation
Accredited
CaRMS program ID
36467

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

Summary

  • The University of Alberta Psychiatry Residency Program is a five-year program based in Edmonton.
  • Training takes place at multiple sites including the University of Alberta Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Misericordia and Grey Nuns community hospitals, and community and rural clinics.
  • Residents complete a scholarly project with a mentor and can take research electives or an MSc in Psychiatry during residency.

Training

Setting
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Urban community
  • Rural / remote
Sites

17 teaching sites

  • The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH)
  • Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH)
  • The Grey Nuns Community Hospital (GNH)
Show all 17
  • Alberta Hospital Edmonton (AHE)
  • Edmonton Community Health Hub North
  • Community Psychiatry Division
  • Misericordia Community Hospital (MIC)
  • The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Mental Health Clinic
  • The Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital (GRH)
  • Villa Caritas
  • Child and Adolescent Services Association (CASA)
  • The Stollery Children’s Hospital
  • Henwood Treatment Centre
  • Camrose Mental Health Program
  • Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC)
  • Whitehorse General Hospital (WGH)
  • The Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury (CCMHBI)
Rural exposure
Required rural rotation (4 weeks)
Research
Required · scholarly or quality-improvement project · protected time
Training language
English
Highlights
  • Option to complete an MSc in Psychiatry during residency, with half-day seminars credited as coursework.
  • Advanced training in interventional psychiatry including ECT, rTMS and ketamine therapy.
  • Area of Focused Competence in Addictions can be completed in the fifth year of residency.

By year

PGY-1
  • General Internal Medicine2 Blocks
  • Emergency Medicine1 Block
  • Family Medicine1 Block
  • Inpatient Neurology1 Block
  • Outpatient Neurology & Brain Injury1 Block
  • Selective and Elective rotations1 Block
  • Geriatric Medicine1 Block
  • Addiction Medicine1 Block
PGY-2
  • Inpatient Psychiatry Rotation6 Blocks
  • Outpatient Psychiatry Rotation6 Blocks

From the program's rotation list.

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • Community and Rural Psychiatry (Transition to Discipline (TD) · 1 Block)
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Transition to Discipline (TD) · 2 weeks)
  • Forensic Psychiatry (Transition to Discipline (TD) · 2 weeks)
  • Emergency Psychiatry (Transition to Discipline (TD) · 1 Block)
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Core of Discipline (CD) · 6 blocks)
  • Geriatric Psychiatry (Core of Discipline (CD) · 6 blocks)
  • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (Core of Discipline (CD) · 4 Blocks)
  • Rehabilitation Psychiatry (Core of Discipline (CD) · 5 Blocks)
  • Addiction Psychiatry (Core of Discipline (CD) · 1 blocks)
  • Shared-Care Psychiatry (Core of Discipline (CD) · 1 blocks)
  • Electives in PGY-4 (Core of Discipline (CD) · 4 Blocks)
  • Junior Attending Role (ED Psychiatry or Inpatient Psychiatry) (Transition to Practice (TTP) · 1 Block)

Selection

Application file components
  • CV
  • Electives
  • Examinations
  • Extra-curricular
  • Leadership skills
  • MSPRs
  • Personal letters
  • Reference documents
  • Research/Publications
  • Transcripts
Return of service
Not required · all residents
Applications per year
51–200
Applicants offered interviews
26–50%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)
25, 27 and 29 Jan 2027; 1 and 3 Feb 2027
Mode
Virtual
Format
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)
  • Panel
  • MMI or rotating station

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, Alberta
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$67,440 / year
PGY-2
$74,153 / year
PGY-3
$80,058 / year
PGY-4
$86,281 / year
PGY-5
$92,698 / year

One provincial scale for Alberta, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 levels this program covers.

Benefits

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

Annual vacation
4 weeks/yr
Call Stipends
weekday in-house –  $118.02weekend in-house / holiday – $178.72weekday home call – $59.01weekend home call / holiday – $89.35
CMPA dues paid
$1,500
Dental plan
75% premium paid
Educational leave
14 days paid leave
Extended health insurance
75% premium paid$1000 per year Flexible Spending Account*
Frequency of calls
In-house call: 7/28. 2/4 weekend call.Home call: 9/28. 2/4 weekend call**A Resident scheduled on Home call but who is required to work more than four hours in hospital during the call period, of which more than one full hour is past 12:00 a.m. and before 6:00 a.m., or more than six (6) hours in hospital during the call period, shall be remunerated at the rate for In-House call.$100 per day for each scheduled weekend day of patient rounds when not on-call
Life insurance
100% towards $150,000 coverage
Life Support Course Costs (Program Approved
100% paid
Long-term disability insurance
100% paid for 75% gross income
Maternity Leave
18 weeks total (17 weeks paid to match 90% of salary when combined with EI)
Parental Leave
2 weeks leave with full pay and benefits;52 weeks (inclusive of Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leaves) – unpaid leave
Practice Stipend
$1,500
Provincial dues (% of salary)
.95%
Sick leave
Up to 3 months or to end contract paid leave, whichever occurs first
Statutory holidays
Paid days. Additional days off are given if resident works the day before and part of a named holiday.

Call

Call (provincial max)
1 in 4 in-house

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

PARA agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2028.

Teaching sites

  • The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) (Edmonton)
  • Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) (Edmonton)
  • The Grey Nuns Community Hospital (GNH) (Edmonton)
  • Alberta Hospital Edmonton (AHE) (Edmonton)
  • Edmonton Community Health Hub North (Edmonton)
  • Community Psychiatry Division (Edmonton)
  • Misericordia Community Hospital (MIC) (Edmonton)
  • The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Mental Health Clinic (Edmonton)
  • The Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital (GRH) (Edmonton)
  • Villa Caritas (Edmonton)
  • Child and Adolescent Services Association (CASA) (Edmonton)
  • The Stollery Children’s Hospital (Edmonton)
  • Henwood Treatment Centre
  • Camrose Mental Health Program (Camrose · rural or distributed site)
  • Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre (RDRHC) (Red Deer · rural or distributed site)
  • Whitehorse General Hospital (WGH) (Whitehorse · rural or distributed site)
  • The Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury (CCMHBI) (Ponoka · rural or distributed site)

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 3 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 0 of 9 years.

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

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
201900
202000
20212 positions open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
202200
20231 position open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20241 position 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.

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

psycpgme@ualberta.ca

Shared by Sreya Jacob · Program Administrator, Dana Black · Program Administrator and Chelsey Konowalyk · Program Administrator

Program directors

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

Location

Edmonton, Alberta

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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
−10.3 °C Edmonton (City), 4.5 km away
July average
18.1 °C Edmonton (City), 4.5 km away
Snowfall
123.9 cm a year Edmonton (City), 4.5 km away
Days below −20 °C
23.8 days a year Edmonton (City), 4.5 km away

People

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

Population
1,010,899 people up 8.3% from 2016
Official languages
English only 91.0% · French only 0.1% · English and French 6.6% · neither 2.3% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants
32.5% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 6.8% · non-permanent residents: 2.4%
Indigenous identity
5.8% of residents
How people commute
car, truck or van 85.1% · public transit 8.1% · walking or cycling 4.4% · other 2.4% Average commute: 23.7 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
$90,000 before tax $79,500 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
Edmonton, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 1,151,635 people in 2021
Remoteness index
0.114 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.

Rental vacancy rate
3.8% October 2025 survey, Edmonton, Alberta (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living
$58,876 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Edmonton, Alberta, 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.
Unemployment rate
6.9% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Edmonton, Alberta (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.7 points. A survey estimate.

Job outlook

Employment and Social Development Canada’s rating for the occupation in the economic region. It is not a count of jobs, and says nothing about CaRMS positions or your match.

Outlook, 2025–2027
Good The employment outlook will be Good for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine (NOC 31100) in the Edmonton region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033
Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine, 2024–2033. Recent conditions, 2021–2023: Strong signs of Shortage.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
  • Adapted from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey, October 2025 (vacancy rates), and Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0130-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), 2024 to 2033 projections).
  • Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, 3-Year Employment Outlooks).
  • 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 14-10-0459-01 Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted, reference month 2026-09. 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 6 Oct 2026.