Québec - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Université LavalQuébec, QuebecRegular stream

CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 31 Aug 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): 2 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: Regular
Discipline: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Applications per year: 0–50
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 35621

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

Summary

Université Laval's five-year Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency trains mainly at Hôpital Enfant-Jésus and the IRDPQ rehabilitation centre in Québec City.
The program can take 4 residents per year.
Residents complete a mandatory 3-period research rotation and a research project, plus a one-period regional physiatry rotation.

Training

Setting

Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community

Sites

11 teaching sites

Hôpital Enfant-Jésus (HEJ)
Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec (IRDPQ)
CHUL

Show all 11

HSFA
HDQ
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et pneumologie de Québec (Hôpital Laval)
Clinique de médecine sportive PEPS
CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches - Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis
CRDP-CA (site Charny)
MSK Québec
Clinique dextérité

Rural exposure

Not stated on CaRMS page

Research

Required · research project · protected time

Training language

French

Highlights

Residents follow patients from the acute hospital phase through inpatient rehabilitation to longitudinal outpatient follow-up.
Required anatomy lab in first year alongside the surgical-specialty R1 core.

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Physiatrie (Progression vers la discipline · 2 périodes · CHU (HEJ et CHUL), IRDPQ et CPQ)
Médecine interne (Unité d’enseignement) (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 2 périodes · CHU (HEJ))
Stage de nuit (médecine interne) (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (HEJ, HDQ))
Gériatrie (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (HEJ))
Neurochirurgie (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (HEJ))
Chirurgie plastique (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (HEJ))
Unité de traumatologie (Médecine familiale) (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (HEJ))
Radiologie (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (HEJ))
Réadaptation médecine familiale (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · IRDPQ)
Orthopédie adulte générale et traumatologie (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (CHUL, HSFA, HEJ))
Orthopédie spinale adulte (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (HEJ))
Rhumatologie (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 1 période · CHU (CHUL))
Neurologie (Acquisition des fondements de la discipline · 3 périodes · CHU (HEJ))
Physiatrie musculosquelettique (Maitrise de la discipline · 6 périodes · CHU (HEJ), IRDPQ et CPQ)
Réadaptation des TCC (Maitrise de la discipline · 4 périodes · IRDPQ et CHU (HEJ))
Réadaptation des amputés/Prothèses/Orthèses (Maitrise de la discipline · 4 périodes · IRDPQ et CHU)
Réadaptation des blessés médullaires (Maitrise de la discipline · 4 périodes · IRDPQ et CHU (HEJ))
Réadaptation de l’AVC (Maitrise de la discipline · 4 périodes · IRDPQ et CHU (HEJ))
Maladies neuromusculaires / EMG (Maitrise de la discipline · 4 périodes · IRDPQ et CHU (HEJ))
Réadaptation pédiatrique (Maitrise de la discipline · 4 périodes · CHU (CHUL), IRDPQ (site St-Louis))
Recherche (Maitrise de la discipline · 3 périodes · IRDPQ et CHU)
Réadaptation cardiorespiratoire (Maitrise de la discipline · 1 période · IUCPQ)
Stage de réadaptation interne (Maitrise de la discipline · 1 période · IRDPQ)
Physiatrie musculosquelettique (Transition vers la pratique · 2 périodes · CHU (HEJ), IRDPQ, CPQ et HDL)
Physiatrie Région (Transition vers la pratique · 1 période · Mont-Joli, Trois-Rivières, Gatineau, Moncton, Sherbrooke)
Options (Clinique de la douleur, médecine sportive, recherche, physiatrie générale, EMG, réadaptation et musculosquelettique…) (Transition vers la pratique · 7 périodes)

Selection

Application file components

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

Return of service

Not required · this stream

Applications per year

0–50

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)

29 Jan 2027

Mode

Virtual

Format

Panel
MMI or rotating station

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$58,728 / year
PGY-2	$64,809 / year
PGY-3	$70,890 / year
PGY-4	$76,969 / year
PGY-5	$83,050 / year

One provincial scale for Quebec, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 levels this program covers.

Benefits

Benefits as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024; check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Adoption leave: 29 to 38 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Annual vacation: 20 days/year
Assistant Resident Coordinator: $425/month
Call Premium: $607/28 days
Conference leave: 7 days pd/year
Dental Plan: Yes, available for a fee
Exam leave: Day (s) of the exam
Extended Health Insurance: Yes
Leave for death in family: From 1 to 5 days depending on the family member
Leave of absence without pay (exceptional measure): 12 months maximum
Life insurance: Yes
Long-Term disability insurance: Yes
Maternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP*) and FMRQ **: 21 weeks95 % of salary
Meals: Reduced feeFree during on-call duty
Pager: Provided by the establishment
Parental leave (time sharing between parents): 19 to 29 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Parking: ½ of doctors’ feeFree during on-call duty
Paternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP) and FMRQ: 1 week, 100% of salary3 to 5 weeks, 100% of salary(two options)
Professional Liability Insurance****(CPMA not applicable): Yes (free)
Quebec Health Insurance Program / RAMQ***: Yes
Resident Coordinator: $583/month
Resuscitation courses and examination leave: Day of the course and of the exam, course paid
Sick leave: 9.6 days pd / yearAnd reimbursement of days not taken
Statutory and floating holidays: 13/year
Study leave: 10 days pd/year
Superior Financial Programs: Yes
Teaching Premium: $240/28 days
Wedding leave: 7 days paid + 7 days without pay

Call

Call (provincial max): 6 calls in an establishment per 28 days

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

FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028.

Teaching sites

Hôpital Enfant-Jésus (HEJ) (Québec)
Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec (IRDPQ) (Québec)
CHUL (Québec)
HSFA (Québec)
HDQ (Québec)
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et pneumologie de Québec (Hôpital Laval) (Québec)
Clinique de médecine sportive PEPS
CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches - Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis (Lévis)
CRDP-CA (site Charny) (Charny)
MSK Québec
Clinique dextérité

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.

Hôpital Enfant-Jésus (HEJ)

Matched to Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 25,968 · 2026–2027: 26,733 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 335 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

CHUL

Matched to Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 28,705 · 2026–2027: 29,528 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 296 · neonatology 56 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

HSFA

Matched to Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 16,696 · 2026–2027: 17,516 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 254 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

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HDQ

Matched to L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 9,117 · 2026–2027: 9,533 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 262 · hôtellerie 63 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Institut universitaire de cardiologie et pneumologie de Québec (Hôpital Laval)

Matched to Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 12,268 · 2026–2027: 13,015 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 338 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches - Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis

Matched to Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis (Lévis) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 30,011 · 2026–2027: 31,265 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 208 · psychiatry 70 · geriatrics 20 · neonatology 8 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Sources and licences

Contient de l'information fournie par le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec et visée par CC BY 4.0. Données modifiées. (Contains information provided by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec under CC BY 4.0. Data modified.)

Unfilled positions in past years

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

Positions at this site, all streams.

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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.

“Processus d'admission / Documents à fournir” · the program’s heading on CaRMS

Program officeadministrators and coordinators

admission.postmd@fmed.ulaval.ca

Équipe Admission · Vice-décanat aux études médicales postdoctorales - Université Laval

Mylène Cauchon (par intérim)
Agente de gestion des études
programmemedphysiquereadaptation@fmed.ulaval.ca

Program director

Dr(e) Sandrine Boueilh
Directrice du programme
sandrine.boueilh.1@ulaval.ca

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

Location

Québec, Quebec

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: −11.3 °C Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 4.2 km away
July average: 20.0 °C Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 4.2 km away
Snowfall: 298.9 cm a year Lauzon, 14.2 km away
Days below −20 °C: 20.6 days a year Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 4.2 km away

People

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

Population: 549,459 people up 3.3% from 2016
Official languages: English only 0.4% · French only 56.5% · English and French 42.7% · neither 0.4% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 8.5% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 2.3% · non-permanent residents: 2.5%
Indigenous identity: 1.8% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 78.6% · public transit 10.8% · walking or cycling 9.0% · other 1.6% Average commute: 19.5 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: $70,500 before tax $60,800 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: Québec, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 733,156 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.143 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: 2.4% October 2025 survey, Québec, Quebec (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $49,394 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Québec, Quebec, 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: 4.3% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Québec, Quebec (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.5 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 Capitale-Nationale 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.

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.