Northern Thompson - Flin Flon - Family Medicine

University of ManitobaNorthern Thompson, ManitobaCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 4 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): 3 positions
Length: 2 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 601+
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 35510

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

Summary

This two-year family medicine program trains residents primarily in Thompson, Manitoba, with an optional home base in Flin Flon.
Part of family medicine time is spent at distributed northern sites, including fly-in First Nations communities.
Some off-service rotations, such as neonatology, ICU and trauma surgery, take place in Winnipeg.
Residents need a driver's licence and a vehicle, air travel is mandatory, and the program covers travel and accommodation at remote sites.

Training

Setting

Regional community
Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural / remote

Sites

20 teaching sites

Thompson Clinic
Thompson General Hospital
Flin Flon Community Clinic

Show all 20

Flin Flon Clinic
Flin Flon General Hospital
St Anthonys Hospital
Primary Health Care Centre
Children's Hospital
Health Sciences Centre
Opaskwayak Cree Nation
Lynn Lake
Gillam
Snow Lake
Leaf Rapids
Wabowden
Thicket Portage
Ilford
Pikwitonei
Shamattawa
Oxford House

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Required rural rotation

Focus areas

Northern
Rural / remote
Indigenous health
POCUS curriculum
Procedural emphasis

Research

Offered

Enhanced skills

Addiction Medicine
Anesthesia
Other
Care of the Elderly
Emergency Medicine
Obstetrical Surgical Skills
Palliative Care
Sport and Exercise Medicine

Getting around

A car is required
Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
Travel is reimbursed

Highlights

Training in fly-in First Nations communities in Northern Manitoba, with mandatory air travel.
Distributed rural sites range from communities under 1,000 people to Thompson (about 13,000).

By year

PGY-2

PALLIATIVE MEDICINEWinnipeg

From the program's rotation list.

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Children's Emergency (one rotation · Children's Hospital in Winnipeg)
outpatient and inpatient pediatrics
AIRWAY (2 weeks · Thompson or The Pas)
OBSTETRICS (8 weeks · Thompson General Hospital or The Pas)
NEONATOLOGY (2-week · Winnipeg)
Acute Trauma Surgery Unit (one rotation · Health Sciences Centre)
Addiction medicine rotation
ICU (Winnipeg)

Selection

Application file components

CV
Electives
Examinations
Extra-curricular
Leadership skills
MSPRs
Personal letters
Reference documents
Research/Publications
Transcripts
Other file component(s)

Return of service

Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Applications per year

601+

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)

19, 20 and 21 Jan 2027

Format

Panel

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

Info sessions

Thu 5 Nov 20267:00–8:30 pm CST
Info session · Virtual
Link for University of Manitoba, Thu 5 Nov 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Thu 19 Nov 20267:00–8:00 pm CST
Info session · Virtual
Link for University of Manitoba, Thu 19 Nov 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Wed 2 Dec 20267:00–8:00 pm CST
Info session · Virtual
Link for University of Manitoba, Wed 2 Dec 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Wed 9 Dec 20267:00–8:00 pm CST
Info session · VirtualCheck with the program
Link for University of Manitoba, Wed 9 Dec 2026 (opens in a new tab)

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 22 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Manitoba
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$72,171 / year
PGY-2	$77,416 / year

One provincial scale for Manitoba, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 2 levels this program covers.

Call

Call (provincial max): 7 calls per 4-week block, in-house and home call combined

The union agreement’s cap for all residents in the province; your program’s actual call schedule may be lighter. Check with the program.

PARIM agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

Thompson Clinic (Thompson)
Thompson General Hospital (Thompson)
Flin Flon Community Clinic (Flin Flon)
Flin Flon Clinic (Flin Flon)
Flin Flon General Hospital (Flin Flon)
St Anthonys Hospital (The Pas)
Primary Health Care Centre (Flin Flon)
Children's Hospital (Winnipeg)
Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)
Opaskwayak Cree Nation (rural or distributed site)
Lynn Lake (Lynn Lake · rural or distributed site)
Gillam (Gillam · rural or distributed site)
Snow Lake (Snow Lake · rural or distributed site)
Leaf Rapids (Leaf Rapids · rural or distributed site)
Wabowden (Wabowden · rural or distributed site)
Thicket Portage (Thicket Portage · rural or distributed site)
Ilford (Ilford · rural or distributed site)
Pikwitonei (Pikwitonei · rural or distributed site)
Shamattawa (Shamattawa · rural or distributed site)
Oxford House (Oxford House · rural or distributed site)

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 6 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: Northern Thompson.

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	2 positions open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2021	2 positions open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2022	1 position 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	0	0
2025	1 position open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2026	1 position open after round 1 in 2026, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	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

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

shannon.rankin@umanitoba.ca

Shannon Rankin · Postgraduate Program Coordinator

Program director

Dr. Leah Peters
Postgraduate Program Director

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

Site staffdirectors and coordinators at the teaching sites

Dr. Nathan Coleman
Site Medical Lead

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

Location

Northern Thompson, Manitoba

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: −23.4 °C Thompson, 6.4 km away
July average: 16.2 °C Thompson, 6.4 km away
Snowfall: 180.3 cm a year Thompson, 6.4 km away
Days below −20 °C: 101.1 days a year Thompson, 6.4 km away

People

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

Population: 13,035 people down 4.7% from 2016
Official languages: English only 93.4% · French only 0.1% · English and French 5.8% · neither 0.7% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 13.4% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 4.6% · non-permanent residents: 1.7%
Indigenous identity: 45.5% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 87.0% · public transit 1.0% · walking or cycling 9.6% · other 2.4% Average commute: 11.5 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: $96,000 before tax $82,000 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: Thompson, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people) 12,329 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.438 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.
Student loan forgiveness: Family medicine here may qualify for up to $60,000 of Canada Student Loan forgiveness. Eligibility depends on the postal code of where you work: check the official postal-code lookup. Postal-code lookup(opens in a new tab)

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: 6.0% October 2025 survey, Thompson, Manitoba (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $53,873 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Manitoba, population under 30,000, 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.

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 general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the North 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.

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 34-10-0132-01. 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.
Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, Canada Student Loan Forgiveness (Canada.ca), page dated 2026-06-03.
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.

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.