Okanagan South - Family Medicine

University of British ColumbiaOkanagan South, British ColumbiaIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 15 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: IMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 201–400
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 36473

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

Summary

Okanagan South is a 2-year rural-focused family medicine site of UBC, based at Penticton Regional Hospital.
Training uses block rotations with a longitudinal home clinic and includes 5 months of rural rotations.
Residents complete a QI project in R1 and a scholar project in R2, and the IMG stream carries a Return of Service obligation.

Training

Setting

Regional community
Rural / remote
Academic / tertiary hospital

Sites

4 teaching sites

Penticton Regional Hospital
BC Children’s
BC Women’s Hospital

Show all 4

Princeton Rural

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Required rural rotation (20 weeks)

Focus areas

Rural / remote
POCUS curriculum

Research

Required · research or quality-improvement project

Enhanced skills

Emergency Medicine
Care of the Elderly
Anesthesia
Palliative Care
Sport and Exercise Medicine

Highlights

Five months of rural rotations, including a 4-week Princeton Rural block in PGY1 and 16 weeks rural in PGY2.
PGY1 includes certifications in ACLS, ATLS, ALARM, PALS, NRP and OAT plus POCUS and simulation training.

By year

PGY-1

Family Medicine10 weeks
General Internal Medicine & ICU5 weeks
General Surgery & Subspecialty5 weeks
Community Inpatient Service4 weeks
Internal Medicine Sub-Specialty4 weeks
Pediatrics4 weeks
OBS GYN4 weeks
Princeton RuralPrinceton4 weeks
Orientation2 weeks
Psychiatry2 weeks
BC Children’s Emergency MedicineBC Children’s2 weeks
Emergency Medicine2 weeks
Care of Underserved2 weeks
BC Women’s Hospital OBSBC Women’s Hospital2 weeks

PGY-2

Rural Rotation16 weeks
Away Elective8 weeks
Emergency Medicine4 weeks
Family Medicine4 weeks
Local Elective4 weeks
Transition to Practice4 weeks
OBS GYN2 weeks
RACE Clinic (Rapid Access Cardiac Evaluation)2 weeks
Internal Medicine Sub-Specialty2 weeks
Procedural Skills2 weeks
Palliative Care2 weeks
Care of Underserved2 weeks
Selective (additional time on Care of Underserved or Procedural Skills)2 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

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

Required · this stream

IMG requirements

Assessment by a provincial clinical assessment program

Applications per year

201–400

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)

16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25 and 26 Jan 2027

Mode

Virtual

Format

MMI or rotating station

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

Info sessions

Info sessions planned, dates not published yet.

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 2 Sep 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Salaries from April 2027.

Annual salary by PGY level, British Columbia
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$71,390 / year
PGY-2	$79,571 / year

One provincial scale for British Columbia, 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
CMPA dues paid: Yes. Mandatory
Dental plan: 100% Premiums Paid
Educational leave: Yes
Extended health insurance: 100% Premiums Paid
Frequency of calls: 1 in 4 onsite/1 in 3 offsite
Life insurance: 100% Premium Paid
Long-term disability insurance: Yes 100% Premiums Paid
Maternity leave: 17 weeks, plus up to 78 weeks Parental Leave
Meal allowance: No
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1.5%
Provincial health insurance: 100% Premiums Paid
Sick leave: Yes
Statutory holidays: 2 x pay plus extra day with pay

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 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.

RDBC agreement, 1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2029.

Teaching sites

Penticton Regional Hospital (Penticton)
BC Children’s
BC Women’s Hospital
Princeton Rural (Princeton · 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.

Penticton Regional Hospital

Matched to Penticton Regional Hospital (Penticton) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 3,482 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 837 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

BC Children’s

Matched to BC Children's Hospital (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 7,396 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 1,910 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

BC Women’s Hospital

Matched to BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre (Vancouver) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26: 5,033 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1: 1,348 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

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

residency@familymed.ubc.ca

Shared by Jialin (Lydia) Chen · Program and Learning Development Manager and Alexandria Miller · Education Coordinator

Program directors

Dr. Sarah McCorquodale
Dr. Flora Wong

CaRMS lists no email for the directors.

Site staffdirectors and coordinators at the teaching sites

Kristen Hart
Site Coordinator
Kristen.Hart@interiorhealth.ca
Dr. Jeff Hoekstra
Co-Site Director
jeffrey.hoekstra@ubc.ca
Dr. Robin Masson
Co-Site Director
robin.masson@interiorhealth.ca

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

Location

Okanagan South, British Columbia

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: −0.8 °C Penticton, 2.4 km away
July average: 21.4 °C Penticton, 2.4 km away
Snowfall: 61.6 cm a year Penticton, 2.4 km away
Days below −20 °C: 0.1 days a year Penticton, 2.4 km away

People

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

Population: 36,885 people up 9.3% from 2016
Official languages: English only 92.8% · French only 0.1% · English and French 6.5% · neither 0.6% 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: 1.3% · non-permanent residents: 1.0%
Indigenous identity: 6.8% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 80.5% · public transit 1.9% · walking or cycling 14.2% · other 3.4% Average commute: 15.1 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: $68,000 before tax $61,600 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: Penticton, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 36,893 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.282 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)Time-limited: this place meets only the previous community definition, which stays in place “until November 1, 2027 or the day that is 6 months after the day on which a census is published by Statistics Canada, whichever is later”.

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: 2.6% October 2025 survey, Penticton, British Columbia (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $54,086 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, British Columbia, population 30,000 to 99,999, 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.

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 Thompson - Okanagan 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.