Fredericton - Family Medicine

Dalhousie UniversityFredericton, New BrunswickIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 17 Nov 2025

From the 2026 match (R-1 2026). See the 2027 version

Positions (approx. quota): 1 position
Length: 2 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 601+
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 29842

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

Summary

The Fredericton Family Medicine program offers a unique, hands-on training experience in a community setting with strong academic links. Residents benefit from extensive clinical exposure, minimal competition for learning opportunities, and a focus on educational excellence in a supportive environment.

Training

Research

Residents are required to complete a scholarly project with protected time for research and critical review of medical literature.

Training setting

The Fredericton program is located in a community setting served by the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, offering training in a 417-bed facility with diverse medical services and strong primary care presence.

Teaching approach

Emphasizes experiential learning, self-directed learning, and a patient-centered approach with graduated responsibility and close mentorship from family physicians.

Setting types

Community hospital
Academic medical center
Rural training site

Focus areas

Community Family Medicine
Rural Medicine
Comprehensive Patient Care
Interprofessional Care

Patient populations

Inpatients
Obstetric patients
Pediatric patients
Geriatric patients
Palliative care patients
Emergency patients

Highlights

Distributed training site
Learner-centered approach
Extensive simulation curriculum
One-on-one preceptor model
Hands-on experiential learning

Strengths

Strong exam performance by residents
Excellent simulation facilities
Comprehensive clinical exposure
Low resident-to-faculty ratio
Diverse clinical learning experiences

Enhanced skills

Emergency Medicine
Palliative Care
Care of the Elderly

By year

PGY-1

Core Family MedicineFredericton16 weeks
Internal MedicineFredericton8 weeks
Obstetrics and GynecologyFredericton8 weeks
PediatricsFredericton6 weeks
Emergency MedicineFredericton4 weeks
General SurgeryFredericton4 weeks
Orthopaedic SurgeryFredericton4 weeks
VacationScheduled at resident's request4 weeks
HospitalistFredericton2 weeks

PGY-2

Core Family MedicineFredericton16 weeks
Community Family MedicineFredericton12 weeks
ElectivesResidents in Fredericton have a total of 8 weeks of electives, scheduled at Residents' request, minimum of 4 weeks in the Maritimes8 weeks
Critical CareFredericton4 weeks
GeriatricsFredericton4 weeks
PsychiatryFredericton4 weeks
Palliative CareFredericton4 weeks
VacationScheduled at resident's request4 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

NAC examination
FMProC assessment
Personal letter
Reference letters
CV
Academic performance

Applications per year

601+

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 13, 24 and 27 Nov 2025; 10 and 23 Jan 2026; 6 Feb 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 24 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$78,578 / year
PGY-2	$83,904 / year

One provincial scale for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, 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)

Annual vacation: 4 weeks
Call stipend: Yes
CMPA dues paid: Yes
Dental coverage: Yes
Educational leave: Yes
Extended health insurance: Yes
Frequency of call: l in 4 in-hospital and for homecall
Life insurance: $100,000 of insurance
Long-term disabilityinsurance: 66.7% of salary
Maternity leave top up after one year’s service: eligible for up to a maximum of 17 weeks top-up allowance for maternity/pregnancy leave
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1.30%
Provincial health insurance: Yes
Sick leave: Yes
Statutory and floating holidays: paid

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 night 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.

MarDocs agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital

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.

Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital

Matched to Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital / Hôpital régional Dr Everett Chalmers (Fredericton) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds: 314 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – New Brunswick.

Unfilled positions in past years

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

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

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.
Year	Open after round 1	Open after round 2
2018	not available	0
2019	0	0
2020	5 positions open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2021	0	0
2022	1 position open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2023	0	0
2024	0	0
2025	6 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	1 position open after round 2 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
2026	0	0

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

Contacts weren't collected for the 2026 match.

The current program director and contacts are on the 2027 version of this program and on the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab).

Location

Fredericton, New Brunswick

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: −9.2 °C Fredericton (Airport), 10.6 km away
July average: 19.7 °C Fredericton (Airport), 10.6 km away
Snowfall: 241.3 cm a year Fredericton (Airport), 10.6 km away
Days below −20 °C: 17.3 days a year Fredericton (Airport), 10.6 km away

People

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

Population: 63,116 people up 7.5% from 2016
Official languages: English only 74.8% · French only 0.3% · English and French 24.3% · neither 0.6% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 12.6% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 5.6% · non-permanent residents: 2.8%
Indigenous identity: 3.5% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 85.2% · public transit 3.7% · walking or cycling 9.1% · other 1.9% Average commute: 14.9 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: $73,000 before tax $64,000 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: Fredericton, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 64,614 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.288 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: not published October 2025 survey, Fredericton, New Brunswick (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $54,161 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 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: 6.0% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Fredericton, New Brunswick (census metropolitan area); standard error 1.0 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: Very good The employment outlook will be Very good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the Fredericton - Oromocto region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033: Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for general practitioners and family physicians, 2024–2033. Recent conditions, 2021–2023: Strong signs of Shortage.