Northern Ontario - Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine

NOSM UniversityNorthern Ontario, OntarioCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

Contacts and 1 more link

Open on carms.ca

CaRMS program description, FM/ES 2027 match, last approved 15 Jul 2026

Positions (approx. quota): 2 positions
Length: 1 year
Stream: Competitive
Discipline: Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
Applications per year: 0–50
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 34547

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

Summary

This is a 12-month PGY-3 family medicine enhanced skills program in addiction medicine at NOSM University.
Residents are often based in Thunder Bay or Sudbury and are expected to rotate through Timmins and Sioux Lookout.
The curriculum has 36 weeks of core clinical rotations, including a research block, plus 16 weeks of electives.

Training

Setting

Regional community
Rural / remote

Sites

13 teaching sites

Thunder Bay
Sudbury
Timmins

Show all 13

Sioux Lookout
Dryden District Health Centre
Lake of the Woods District Hospital
Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare
Riverside Healthcare Facilities Inc.
St. Joseph’s Care Group
Temiskaming Hospital
Timmins and District Hospital
Notre Dame Hospital

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Required rural rotation

Focus areas

Indigenous health
Northern
Rural / remote

Research

Required · research or quality-improvement project · protected time

Highlights

Required rotation in Sioux Lookout focused on remote addiction medicine and Indigenous health care.
Possible work in remote fly-in First Nations community wellness programs on the James Bay coast.

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

Inpatient Addiction Medicine
Outpatient Addiction Medicine
Psychiatry Addiction
Community Rotation
Research Block
Inpatient rehabilitation/ Residential treatment
HIV and Hepatitis C care
FM Addiction Medicine (longitudinal)
Electives (16 weeks)

Selection

Application file components

CV
Electives
Examinations
Extra-curricular
Leadership skills
MSPRs
Personal letters
Reference documents
Research/Publications
Transcripts

Return of service

Required · IMGs only

Applications per year

0–50

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (FM/ES 2027 match)

Not stated on CaRMS page

Mode

Virtual

Format

Panel

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-3	$85,564 / year

One provincial scale for Ontario, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

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.

Hospital facts

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

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

Dawn Grover
Program Coordinator

Program director

Dr. Greg Carfagnini

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

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

Location

Northern Ontario, Ontario

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 8 Oct 2026.