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Rural Interlake Eastern - Family Medicine

University of ManitobaRural Interlake Eastern, 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
36101

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

Summary

  • This is a 2-year University of Manitoba family medicine stream based in Selkirk, where residents must live in the Interlake/Selkirk area.
  • Family medicine block time is at Selkirk Medical Centre, and residents also care for admitted patients at Selkirk Regional Health Centre.
  • Core rotations in internal medicine and obstetrics take place in Winnipeg, and residents complete eight weeks of rural family medicine in the Interlake-Eastern region.

Training

Setting
  • Regional community
  • Academic / tertiary hospital
  • Rural / remote
Sites

6 teaching sites

  • Selkirk Medical Centre
  • Selkirk Regional Health Centre
  • Health Sciences Centre
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  • St. Boniface Hospital
  • Children’s Hospital
  • Percy E. Moore Hospital

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure
Required rural rotation (8 weeks)
Focus areas
  • Rural / remote
  • POCUS curriculum
  • Procedural emphasis
  • Indigenous health
Research
Offered
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
  • Two weeks of designated airway training with a Family Practice-Anesthesia physician within family medicine core.
  • Exposure to outpatient cancer care at a CancerCare Manitoba community site with Family Physicians in Oncology.
  • One-week placement at Percy E. Moore Hospital focused on working within an Indigenous community.

By year

PGY-1
  • FAMILY MEDICINESelkirk Medical Centre22 Weeks Core
  • INTERNAL MEDICINEHealth Sciences Centre or the St. Boniface Hospital8 Weeks – Core
  • OBSTETRICSHealth Sciences Centre or the St. Boniface Hospital8 Weeks – Core
  • PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINEChildren’s Hospital4 Weeks – Core
  • ELECTIVES4 Weeks Core
  • VACATION4 Weeks Core
  • AIRWAY2 Weeks – Part of the Family Medicine Core
PGY-2
  • FAMILY MEDICINESelkirk Medical Centre16 Weeks Core
  • RURAL FAMILY MEDICINEInterlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority such as Gimli or Lac du Bonnet8 Weeks – Core
  • SURGERY4 Weeks – Core
  • ICU / CCUWinnipeg hospital4 Weeks - Core
  • PEDIATRICS OUT-PATIENTChildren’s Hospital or St. Boniface Hospital sites in Winnipeg and a Community Pediatric Clinic4 Weeks – Core
  • PALLIATIVE CAREWinnipeg4 weeks – Core
  • ELECTIVES4 Weeks Core
  • VACATION4 weeks – core

From the program's rotation list.

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single PGY year.

  • EMERGENCY MEDICINE AT SELKIRK REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE (LONGITUDINAL EXPERIENCES DURING RESIDENCY · horizontal through 2 years · Selkirk Regional Health Centre)
  • OBSTETRICS AT SELKIRK REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE (LONGITUDINAL EXPERIENCES DURING RESIDENCY · horizontal through 2 years · Selkirk Regional Health Centre)
  • BEHAVIOURAL MEDICINE (LONGITUDINAL EXPERIENCES DURING RESIDENCY · horizontal through 2 years)
  • NUTRITION EDUCATION & CARE (LONGITUDINAL EXPERIENCES DURING RESIDENCY · horizontal through 2 years)

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

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
LevelAnnual 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

  • Selkirk Medical Centre (Selkirk)
  • Selkirk Regional Health Centre (Selkirk)
  • Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)
  • St. Boniface Hospital (Winnipeg)
  • Children’s Hospital (Winnipeg)
  • Percy E. Moore Hospital (rural or distributed site)

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

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

Positions at this site, all streams.

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. Ian Alexander

    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.

More links

Location

Rural Interlake Eastern, Manitoba

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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.