London - Pediatrics

Western UniversityLondon, 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): 2 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Pediatrics
Applications per year: 201–400
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 30323

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

Summary

Western University's Pediatrics Residency Program is a comprehensive 4-year training program focused on developing well-rounded general pediatricians. The program emphasizes individual learner development, providing a stimulating, safe, and equitable learning environment with opportunities for diverse clinical experiences and personal growth.

Training

Research

Residents are expected to complete a scholarly project with mentorship, access to research facilities, and opportunities for publication or abstract presentation.

Training setting

Urban and rural training sites in Southwestern Ontario, including Children's Hospital/London Health Sciences Centre, Windsor Regional Hospital, and multiple community pediatric sites within the Distributed Education network.

Teaching approach

Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) with a focus on progressive independence, holistic development, and personalized learning paths that emphasize individual resident potential and diverse career goals.

Setting types

Academic medical center
Community hospital
Tertiary care center
Pediatric trauma center
Rehabilitation center

Focus areas

General Pediatrics
Pediatric Subspecialties
Community Pediatrics
Rural Medicine
Academic Pediatrics
Child Health Research

Patient populations

Pediatric inpatients
Neonatal patients
Critical care patients
Emergency pediatric patients
Community pediatric patients
Developmental pediatric patients
Psychiatric and behavioral health patients

Highlights

Competence By Design (CBD) curriculum
Mandatory simulation training
Research mentorship program
Distributed Education network rotations
Senior resident and faculty mentor assignment
Academic coaching
Resident wellness subcommittee
Longitudinal research opportunities
Transition to Practice curriculum

Strengths

Comprehensive curriculum meeting Royal College standards
Strong research infrastructure
Diverse clinical exposure
Supportive learning environment
Emphasis on resident wellness
Extensive faculty resources
Flexible training opportunities

Enhanced skills

Pediatric subspecialty training
Research methodology
Transition to Practice curriculum

By year

PGY-1

Clinical Teaching Units (CTU)Children's Hospital, London3 blocks
Pediatric Subspecialty RotationsChildren's Hospital, London2.5 blocks
Neonatal Intensive CareChildren's Hospital, London2 blocks
Junior Night FloatChildren's Hospital, London1.5 blocks
Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU)Windsor Regional Hospital1 block
Community PediatricDistributed Education sites1 block
Pediatric Emergency MedicineChildren's Hospital, London1 block
Pediatric SurgeryChildren's Hospital, London1 block

PGY-2

Pediatric Critical CareChildren's Hospital, London2 blocks
Pediatric Subspecialty RotationsChildren's Hospital, London2 blocks
Pediatric Subspecialty ElectivesVarious2 blocks
Night FloatChildren's Hospital, London2 blocks
Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU)Windsor Regional Hospital1 block
Level 2 Neonatal Intensive CareChildren's Hospital, London1 block
Child PsychiatryLondon1 block
ResearchLondon1 block
Pediatric Subspecialty ElectiveChildren's Hospital, London1 block

PGY-3

Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU)Children's Hospital, London3 blocks
Senior CallChildren's Hospital, London2 blocks
Neonatal Intensive CareChildren's Hospital or Windsor Regional Hospital1 block
Pediatric Critical CareChildren's Hospital, London1 block
Community PediatricsLondon or Distributed Education site1 block
Developmental PediatricsChild and Parent Resource Institute1 block
Pediatric EmergencyChildren's Hospital, London1 block
Pediatric Subspecialty ElectiveLondon1 block
Pediatric Subspecialty ElectiveVarious1 block
ResearchLondon1 block

PGY-4

Subspecialty ElectiveLondon10 weeks
Ambulatory/Mixed ClinicsVarious8 weeks
Elective BlocksVarious8 weeks
NICU and Acute CareVariousMinimum 2 weeks NICU, 2 weeks other acute care
Complex CareVariousMinimum 2 weeks
Rural PediatricsVariousMinimum 2 weeks
Adolescent/Mental HealthVariousMinimum 2 weeks
Senior CallsChildren's Hospital, LondonMinimum 4 x 2-week blocks
CTU-Admission/Junior ConsultantChildren's Hospital, London4-week block
Continuity ClinicCommunity pediatric practiceOne half-day per week
Community PediatricsVarious4-week block

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

Medical Student Performance Record
Personal letter
Curriculum Vitae
Reference letters
Standardized test scores
Interview performance

Applications per year

201–400

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 6 and 26 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

Children's Hospital/London Health Sciences Centre
Windsor Regional Hospital
Child and Parent Resource Institute
Thames Valley Children's Centre

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.

Positions at this site, all streams.

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

London, 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: −5.4 °C London, 10.3 km away
July average: 21.0 °C London, 10.3 km away
Snowfall: 152.3 cm a year Strathroy-Mullifarry, 31.2 km away
Days below −20 °C: 4.5 days a year London, 10.3 km away

People

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

Population: 422,324 people up 10.0% from 2016
Official languages: English only 90.9% · French only 0.1% · English and French 7.1% · neither 1.9% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 24.8% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 4.7% · non-permanent residents: 4.6%
Indigenous identity: 2.6% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 85.9% · public transit 6.4% · walking or cycling 5.5% · other 2.2% Average commute: 20.7 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: $76,500 before tax $68,500 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: London, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 423,369 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.109 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, London, Ontario (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $55,434 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Ontario, population 500,000 and over, 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: 8.4% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, London, Ontario (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.8 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 London 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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