Rural Brandon - Family Medicine

University of ManitobaRural Brandon, ManitobaIMG 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): 1 position
Length: 2 years
Stream: IMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 601+
Applicants offered interviews: 0–25%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 36330

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

Summary

This is a two-year family medicine residency where residents live in Brandon and train mainly at the Brandon Regional Health Center.
Each year includes six family medicine blocks, with 1-2 blocks in a smaller rural community.
Emergency medicine and psychiatry are taught longitudinally, while pediatric emergency and palliative medicine rotations take place in Winnipeg.
IMG residents must sign a return-of-service contract with Manitoba Health.

Training

Setting

Regional community
Rural / remote
Academic / tertiary hospital

Sites

5 teaching sites

Brandon Regional Health Center (BRHC)
Children’s Hospital
Child and Adolescent Treatment Center

Show all 5

Center for Adult Psychiatry
Center for Geriatric Psychiatry

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Required rural rotation

Focus areas

Rural / remote
Longitudinal / integrated
POCUS curriculum
Procedural emphasis
Early independence

Research

Offered · research project

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

Emergency medicine and psychiatry are taught longitudinally within family medicine block time, not as separate blocks.
Residents are based at a regional referral centre where about 1700 babies are born each year.

By year

PGY-1

Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicinetwo blocks

From the program's rotation list.

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

Family Medicine Block Time (FMBT) (six Family Medicine Blocks in each year · 4-5 blocks based in Brandon and 1-2 blocks based in a smaller rural community in the region)
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (two blocks · Brandon Single Room Maternal Child Unit)
Pediatrics (One block)
Pediatric Emergency (one block · Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg)
Emergency
Surgery (Brandon)
ICU / CCU
Palliative Medicine (Winnipeg)
Psychiatry

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 · IMGs only

IMG requirements

Recent clinical experience (within 10 years)

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)
Tue 17 Nov 20267:00–8:30 pm CST
Info session · Virtual
Link for University of Manitoba, Tue 17 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

Brandon Regional Health Center (BRHC) (Brandon)
Children’s Hospital (Winnipeg)
Child and Adolescent Treatment Center
Center for Adult Psychiatry
Center for Geriatric Psychiatry

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: Rural Brandon.

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	3 positions open after round 1 in 2020, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2021	1 position open after round 1 in 2021, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2022	2 positions open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2023	1 position 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	4 positions 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. Aashima Gupta
Site Education Director/Site Medical Lead

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

Location

Rural Brandon, 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: −16.7 °C Brandon, 7.4 km away
July average: 18.4 °C Brandon, 7.4 km away
Snowfall: 128.2 cm a year Brandon, 7.4 km away
Days below −20 °C: 53.3 days a year Brandon, 7.4 km away

People

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

Population: 51,313 people up 5.0% from 2016
Official languages: English only 92.9% · French only 0.0% · English and French 4.8% · neither 2.2% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 18.1% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 5.5% · non-permanent residents: 2.3%
Indigenous identity: 14.2% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 89.9% · public transit 3.5% · walking or cycling 5.6% · other 1.1% Average commute: 14.6 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: $76,000 before tax $66,000 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: Brandon, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 50,532 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.329 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.

Basic cost of living: $53,331 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Brandon, Manitoba, 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: Very good The employment outlook will be Very good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the Southwest 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.
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.