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Regina - Psychiatry

University of SaskatchewanRegina, SaskatchewanCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 5 Sep 2025

From the 2026 match (R-1 2026). See the 2027 version

Positions (approx. quota)
3 positions
Length
5 years
Stream
CMG
Discipline
Psychiatry
Applications per year
51–200
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%
Accreditation
Accredited
CaRMS program ID
29275

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

Summary

The University of Saskatchewan Psychiatry Regina Site offers a comprehensive 5-year residency program focused on training competent general psychiatry consultants. The program provides an enriched, supportive environment with a small program size allowing for personalized 1:1 teaching and mentorship across diverse clinical settings.

Training

Research
Collaborative research models facilitated by a Faculty Resident Research Coordinator, with opportunities to present at local, national, and international conferences.
Training setting
Training occurs across multiple sites in Regina, including Regina General Hospital, Pasqua Hospital, community mental health clinics, addiction services, and long-term care facilities.
Teaching approach
Emphasizes competency-based medical education with progressive independence, focusing on CanMEDS roles and providing comprehensive training across psychiatric subspecialties with personalized learning experiences.
Setting types
  • Academic medical center
  • Community hospital
  • Outpatient clinics
  • Long-term care facilities
Focus areas
  • General Psychiatry
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Addiction Psychiatry
  • Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
  • Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
  • Psychotherapy
Patient populations
  • Children and adolescents
  • Geriatric patients
  • Patients with severe and persistent mental illness
  • Addiction patients
  • Inpatient psychiatric patients
  • Outpatient psychiatric patients
  • Consultation-liaison patients
Highlights
  • Competency by Design (CBD) Framework
  • Longitudinal psychotherapy training
  • Research opportunities
  • Resident wellness events
  • Teaching opportunities
  • Resident conference funding
  • Out-of-province elective options
  • Resident retreats
Strengths
  • Small program with personalized training
  • Strong faculty mentorship
  • Comprehensive curriculum
  • Distributive learning opportunities
  • Supportive resident environment
  • Flexible training experiences
Enhanced skills
  • Psychotherapy training
  • Family therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)

By year

PGY-1
  • Psychiatry ERRegina General Hospital2 blocks
  • Consultation Liaison PsychiatryRegina General Hospital1 block
  • Internal Medicine (CTU)1 block
  • Neurology1 block
  • Emergency Medicine1 block
  • Family Medicine1 block
  • Geriatric Medicine1 block
  • Psychiatry Selective1 block
  • Medicine Selective1 block
  • Elective/Research1 block
PGY-2
  • General Adult Inpatient PsychiatryRegina General Hospital, Pasqua Hospital6 months
  • General Adult Outpatient PsychiatryCommunity settings6 months
PGY-3
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry6 months
  • Geriatric Psychiatry6 months
PGY-4
  • Severe and Persistent Mental Illness6 months
  • Consultation Liaison Psychiatry2 months
  • Acute Care Psychiatry2 months
  • Addictions Psychiatry1 month
  • Consolidation1 month
PGY-5
  • Elective Training6 months
  • Psychiatry Training Experience3 months
  • Selective Training3 months

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at
  • Casper test
  • Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
  • Personal letter
  • Reference letters
  • CV/Electives
  • Interview performance
Applications per year
51–200
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match)
Not stated on CaRMS page

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)

Contract expired, may change.

Annual salary by PGY level, Saskatchewan
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-1
$68,329 / year
PGY-2
$74,518 / year
PGY-3
$80,700 / year
PGY-4
$86,858 / year
PGY-5
$92,968 / year

One provincial scale for Saskatchewan, 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)

Annual vacation
4 weeks
CMPA dues paid
100%
Dental plan
100%
Educational leave
Minimum 7 days with pay, 12 Maximum
Employee Assistance Program
Two programs available through SMA and University of Saskatchewan
Extended health insurance
Blue Cross family coverage, if registered with a Provincial Health Plan
Frequency of call
1:4 in-house (if in excess of 1:4 paid $196/period from 1700-0800 weekdays and $249 from 0800-0800 weekends)*;1:3 out-of-house
Life insurance
Paid premium, >$100,000 coverage
Long-term disability insurance
Paid premium cost for Disability Insurance
Maternity leave/ Paternity
In conformity with Sask. Labour Standards Act – 17 weeks max maternity leave and up to 35 weeks parental leave.5 paid days paternity (can split the 35 weeks parental leave with mother as desired.)
Meal allowance
n/a
On-Call Stipends
Home Light: per duty period: $72 weekday; $83 weekendIn House: per duty period: $166 weekday; $191 weekendICU/CCU: per duty period: $166 weekday; $191 weekend
Provincial dues (% of salary)
1 %
Provincial health insurance
Yes, if registered with Sask. Health
Sick leave
1.25 days per month to maximum 75 days
Statutory and floating holidays
1.5 times pay or 1/2 pay & day off for stats, plus 6 extra paid days off at Christmas
Supplemental Maternity Leave Benefits
15 weeks topped to 90% pay when eligible for Employment Insurance

Call

Call (provincial max)
1 in 4 in-house, averaged over a rotation

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

RDoS agreement, 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed.

Teaching sites

  • Regina General Hospital
  • Pasqua Hospital
  • Regina Child and Youth Services
  • Regina Mental Health Clinic
  • Regina Addiction Services

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 7 of 8 years (2019–2026); still open after round 2 in 1 of 9 years.

Positions at this site, all streams. Site as CaRMS lists it: Regina.

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.
YearOpen after round 1Open after round 2
2018not available0
20192 positions open after round 1 in 2019, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
202000
20212 positions open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20221 position open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20231 position open after round 1 in 2023, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20243 positions open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)0
20252 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)1 position open after round 2 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)
20261 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

Location

Regina, Saskatchewan

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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
−14.7 °C Regina (Airport), 4.8 km away
July average
18.6 °C Regina (Airport), 4.8 km away
Snowfall
104.6 cm a year Regina (Airport), 4.8 km away
Days below −20 °C
44.7 days a year Regina (Airport), 4.8 km away

People

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

Population
226,404 people up 5.3% from 2016
Official languages
English only 92.6% · French only 0.1% · English and French 6.1% · neither 1.3% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants
20.3% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 6.7% · non-permanent residents: 2.7%
Indigenous identity
10.4% of residents
How people commute
car, truck or van 90.2% · public transit 3.6% · walking or cycling 4.2% · other 2.0% Average commute: 16.4 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
$88,000 before tax $76,500 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
Regina, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 224,996 people in 2021
Remoteness index
0.228 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
2.6% October 2025 survey, Regina, Saskatchewan (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living
$55,765 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Regina, Saskatchewan, 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
6.4% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Regina, Saskatchewan (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.6 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 Regina - Moose Mountain 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 5 Oct 2026.