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North Nova - Family Medicine

Dalhousie UniversityNorth Nova, Nova ScotiaNova Scotian IMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 11 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)
1 position
Length
2 years
Stream
Nova Scotian IMG
Discipline
Family Medicine
Applications per year
601+
Applicants offered interviews
0–25%
Accreditation
Accredited
CaRMS program ID
35957

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

Summary

  • North Nova is a two-year Dalhousie family medicine site, opened in 2019, using an integrated longitudinal curriculum instead of block rotations.
  • Residents are based in communities from Antigonish and New Glasgow to Truro, Amherst, Tatamagouche and Cumberland, and follow their own patient panel.
  • Residents must complete a scholarly project, with protected time, and the stream carries a return-of-service obligation.

Training

Setting
  • Regional community
  • Rural / remote
Sites

4 teaching sites

  • Colchester East Hants Health Centre
  • Aberdeen Hospital
  • Cumberland Regional
Show all 4
  • St. Martha's Hospital

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure
Based in a rural community
Focus areas
  • Longitudinal / integrated
  • Rural / remote
Research
Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time
Enhanced skills
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Palliative Care
  • Care of the Elderly
Getting around
  • A car is required
  • Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
  • Travel is reimbursed
Highlights
  • One to two primary family medicine preceptors supervise each resident throughout the entire two-year residency.
  • Hands-on simulation at North Nova's Antigonish simulation lab at least four times a year.

By year

PGY-2
  • elective timeup to ten weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • Family Medicine
  • Rural Medicine
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Internal Medicine
  • Orthopaedics
  • General Surgery
  • Pediatrics
  • Hospitalist
  • Psychiatry
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • CCU/ICU
  • Palliative Medicine

Selection

Application file components
  • CV
  • Electives
  • Examinations
  • Extra-curricular
  • Leadership skills
  • MSPRs
  • Personal letters
  • Reference documents
  • Research/Publications
  • Transcripts
Return of service
Required · this stream
IMG requirements
Not stated on CaRMS page
Applications per year
601+
Applicants offered interviews
0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)
22 Jan 2027
Mode
Virtual
Format
  • MMI or rotating station

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

Info sessions

From the program’s CaRMS page (opens in a new tab), read 1 Oct 2026. Dates and times are as the program wrote them, not converted to your time zone. Programs add and change sessions: confirm with the program.

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
LevelAnnual 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

  • Colchester East Hants Health Centre (Truro · rural or distributed site)
  • Aberdeen Hospital (New Glasgow · rural or distributed site)
  • Cumberland Regional (Amherst · rural or distributed site)
  • St. Martha's Hospital (Antigonish · rural or distributed site)

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.

Colchester East Hants Health Centre

Matched to Colchester East Hants Health Centre (Truro) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Regional As the province lists it. The list has no volumes or beds.

Aberdeen Hospital

Matched to Aberdeen Hospital (New Glasgow) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Regional As the province lists it. The list has no volumes or beds.

Cumberland Regional

Matched to Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre (Upper Nappan) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Regional As the province lists it. The list has no volumes or beds.
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St. Martha's Hospital

Matched to St. Martha’s Regional Hospital (Antigonish) in the province’s hospital list.

Hospital type
Regional As the province lists it. The list has no volumes or beds.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia.

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

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

Program Information

fmresidency@dal.ca

James Logan · Accreditation and CaRMS Administrator

902-487-2012

Program director

  • Dr. Sasha Sealy

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Site staffdirectors and coordinators at the teaching sites

North Nova Site

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

More links

Location

North Nova, Nova Scotia

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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.