Red Deer - Family Medicine
University of AlbertaRed Deer, AlbertaCMG stream
From the 2026 match (R-1 2026). See the 2027 version
- 9 positions
- 2 years
- CMG
- Family Medicine
- 401–600
- 76–100%
- Accredited
- 29611
Summary
The University of Alberta's Rural Family Medicine program in Red Deer is a decentralized, preceptor-based training stream focused on preparing future rural physicians. The small program allows individualized training with full academic resources, emphasizing comprehensive care and continuity of patient experience in rural settings.
Training
- Research
- Residents complete four small Evidence-Based Medicine research projects in first year and a Practice Quality Improvement project in second year, with potential conference presentation support.
- Training setting
- Training occurs in Red Deer (population 100,000) and various rural sites across northern and central Alberta, with a 390-bed regional hospital and multiple community healthcare settings.
- Teaching approach
- Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, emphasizing hands-on learning, individual teaching, and comprehensive rural medical practice preparation.
- Setting types
- Regional medical center
- Rural community hospitals
- Preceptor-based clinics
- Focus areas
- Rural Family Medicine
- Comprehensive Rural Healthcare
- Community-Based Medical Training
- Patient populations
- Rural community patients
- Regional hospital patients
- Diverse patient panels in rural settings
- Highlights
- Preceptor-based learning
- Extended rural Family Medicine rotations
- Monthly academic days
- Interactive simulation and case-based learning
- Life support course certifications
- Evidence-Based Medicine research projects
- Practice Quality Improvement project
- Resident wellbeing support
- Strengths
- Strong rural medicine training
- Individualized learning approach
- Comprehensive clinical exposure
- Excellent resident support system
- Full academic resources
- Emphasis on community integration
- Enhanced skills
- Point of Care Ultrasound certification
- Practice Management
- Residents as Teacher workshop
By year
- PGY-1
- Rural Family Medicine16 weeks
- Elective6 weeks
- Obstetrics6 weeks
- Emergency Medicine4 weeks
- General Surgery4 weeks
- Geriatrics4 weeks
- Orthopedics4 weeks
- Psychiatry4 weeks
- Addictions2 weeks
- Anesthesia2 weeks
- Dermatology2 weeks
- PGY-2
- Rural Family Medicine16 weeks
- Rural Family Medicine8 weeks
- Electives8 weeks
- Emergency Medicine4 weeks
- Internal Medicine4 weeks
- ICU/CCU4 weeks
- Pediatrics4 weeks
- Gynecology2 weeks
- Palliative Care2 weeks
Selection
- What the program looks at
- Academic performance
- Clinical performance
- Family Medicine experience
- References
- Rural interest/experience
- FMProC assessment
- Interview performance
- Applications per year
- 401–600
- Applicants offered interviews
- 76–100%
Interviews
- Dates (2026 match)
- 16 and 18 Dec 2025; 18 and 19 Jan 2026
Pay
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-1 | $67,440 / year |
| PGY-2 | $74,153 / year |
Benefits
- Annual vacation
- 4 weeks/yr
- Call Stipends
- weekday in-house – $118.02weekend in-house / holiday – $178.72weekday home call – $59.01weekend home call / holiday – $89.35
- CMPA dues paid
- $1,500
- Dental plan
- 75% premium paid
- Educational leave
- 14 days paid leave
- Extended health insurance
- 75% premium paid$1000 per year Flexible Spending Account*
- Frequency of calls
- In-house call: 7/28. 2/4 weekend call.Home call: 9/28. 2/4 weekend call**A Resident scheduled on Home call but who is required to work more than four hours in hospital during the call period, of which more than one full hour is past 12:00 a.m. and before 6:00 a.m., or more than six (6) hours in hospital during the call period, shall be remunerated at the rate for In-House call.$100 per day for each scheduled weekend day of patient rounds when not on-call
- Life insurance
- 100% towards $150,000 coverage
- Life Support Course Costs (Program Approved
- 100% paid
- Long-term disability insurance
- 100% paid for 75% gross income
- Maternity Leave
- 18 weeks total (17 weeks paid to match 90% of salary when combined with EI)
- Parental Leave
- 2 weeks leave with full pay and benefits;52 weeks (inclusive of Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leaves) – unpaid leave
- Practice Stipend
- $1,500
- Provincial dues (% of salary)
- .95%
- Sick leave
- Up to 3 months or to end contract paid leave, whichever occurs first
- Statutory holidays
- Paid days. Additional days off are given if resident works the day before and part of a named holiday.
Call
- Call (provincial max)
- 1 in 4 in-house
Teaching sites
- Red Deer Regional Hospital
- Various rural community hospitals
Hospital facts
Hospital size and activity: Alberta doesn't publish this as open data.
Unfilled positions in past years
No repeated vacancies in CaRMS’s lists of open positions, 2019–2026.
Contacts
Contacts weren't collected for the 2026 match.
The current program director and contacts are on the 2027 version of this program and on the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab).
Location
Red Deer, Alberta
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About the city
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Climate
- January average
- −11.6 °C
- July average
- 16.2 °C
- Snowfall
- 137.8 cm a year
- Days below −20 °C
- 33.7 days a year
People
- Population
- 100,844 people
- Official languages
- English only 93.9% · French only 0.0% · English and French 5.4% · neither 0.7%
- Immigrants
- 16.9% of residents
- Indigenous identity
- 6.6% of residents
- How people commute
- car, truck or van 92.0% · public transit 2.5% · walking or cycling 3.9% · other 1.5%
- Median household income
- $85,000 before tax
Rural and remote
- Population centre
- Red Deer, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people)
- Remoteness index
- 0.186
Housing, cost and work
- Rental vacancy rate
- not published
- Basic cost of living
- $55,427 a year
- Unemployment rate
- 6.3%
Job outlook
- Outlook, 2025–2027
- Very good
- Canada-wide, to 2033
- Strong risk of Shortage