Kingston - Psychiatry

Queen’s UniversityKingston, OntarioIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 8 Oct 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 3 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Psychiatry
Applications per year: 201–400
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 29999

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

Summary

Queen's University Psychiatry Residency offers a comprehensive 5-year training program dedicated to developing exceptional psychiatrists. The program provides a strong academic foundation, excellent clinical rotations, and research opportunities, supported by enthusiastic faculty who are committed to mentoring residents and supporting their diverse career goals.

Training

Research

Residents can choose between General and Intensive Research Streams, with opportunities to participate in research projects, present at conferences, and potentially publish manuscripts.

Training setting

Training occurs across multiple sites in Kingston, Ontario, including Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Providence Care Hospital, and various community mental health settings, offering diverse clinical experiences.

Teaching approach

Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, emphasizing comprehensive clinical skills development, research training, and individualized career path exploration.

Setting types

Academic medical center
Community hospital
Chronic care facility
Rehabilitation center

Focus areas

Adult Psychiatry
Child and Youth Psychiatry
Geriatric Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Emergency Psychiatry
Mood Disorders
Psychotic Disorders
Shared Care Psychiatry

Patient populations

Adult psychiatric patients
Child and youth psychiatric patients
Geriatric psychiatric patients
Forensic patients
Patients with mood disorders
Patients with psychotic disorders
Emergency psychiatric patients
Community mental health patients

Highlights

Clinician Investigator Program (CIP)
Two research training streams
Protected academic time on Wednesday afternoons
Comprehensive psychotherapy training
Biannual OSCE Half Days
Monthly Journal Club and Wellness Sessions
Annual Review Courses in Psychiatry

Strengths

Full Royal College accreditation
Strong research infrastructure
Comprehensive psychotherapy training
Diverse clinical exposure
Supportive and mentorship-focused faculty
Flexible research opportunities

Enhanced skills

Psychotherapy training
Research methodology
Clinician Investigator Program

By year

PGY-1

Psychiatry3 blocks
Selective1 block
Psychiatry Selective1 block
Geriatric medicine1 block
Internal Medicine1 block
Emergency Medicine1 block
Pediatrics1 block
Neurology1 block
Family medicine1 block
Rehabilitative Medicine1 block
Hospital Medicine1 block

PGY-2

Inpatient Psychiatry 4 blocks Outpatient Psychiatry 2 blocks Emergency Psychiatry 1 block Research6 blocks

PGY-3

Child & Youth Psychiatry Geriatric Psychiatry 1 block Consultation Liaison Psychiatry6 blocks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

Medical School Performance Record
Medical School Transcript
Letters of reference
Personal letter
Interview performance
Research/Publications
Electives in Psychiatry

Applications per year

201–400

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 20 and 21 Jan 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 6 Jan 2025 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Contract expired, may change.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$73,367 / year
PGY-2	$79,670 / year
PGY-3	$85,564 / year
PGY-4	$92,701 / year
PGY-5	$98,567 / year

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

Call

Call (provincial max): 7 nights in 28 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.

PARO agreement, 1 Jul 2023 to 30 Jun 2026. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed.

Teaching sites

Kingston Health Sciences Centre
Hotel Dieu Hospital
Kingston General Hospital
Providence Care Hospital

Hospital facts

Hospital size and activity: Ontario 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: Kingston.

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	0	0
2021	0	0
2022	2 positions open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2023	2 positions open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2024	1 position open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2025	0	0
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

Kingston, Ontario

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: −7.0 °C Kingston, 5.5 km away
July average: 20.8 °C Kingston, 5.5 km away
Snowfall: 158.0 cm a year Centreville, 33.8 km away
Days below −20 °C: 13.2 days a year Centreville, 33.8 km away

People

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

Population: 132,485 people up 7.0% from 2016
Official languages: English only 85.8% · French only 0.2% · English and French 13.4% · neither 0.6% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 13.6% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 2.0% · non-permanent residents: 2.5%
Indigenous identity: 4.2% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 81.5% · public transit 6.2% · walking or cycling 10.0% · other 2.3% Average commute: 17.6 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: $79,000 before tax $70,500 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: Kingston, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 127,943 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.216 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: 2.4% October 2025 survey, Kingston, Ontario (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $54,744 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Ontario, population 100,000 to 499,999, 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: 5.6% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Kingston, Ontario (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 Kingston - Pembroke 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.

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