Rural Listowel - Family Medicine

Western UniversityRural Listowel, OntarioIMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 8 Oct 2025

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

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: 29574

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

Summary

The Rural Listowel Family Medicine program offers a comprehensive two-year training experience designed to prepare residents for rural medical practice across Canada. The curriculum combines rotation-based learning in the first year with an integrated longitudinal schedule in the second year, providing a breadth of learning experiences in a rural setting.

Training

Research

Opportunities for scholarly activity and research through the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine

Training setting

Rural community of Listowel, Ontario, with training sites in nearby communities like Stratford and Wingham. Residents experience a wide range of medical settings including family medicine clinics, emergency departments, and long-term care facilities.

Teaching approach

Patient-centered, comprehensive training that develops exemplary family physicians through clinical excellence, professional education, and leadership development.

Setting types

Rural community hospital
Family medicine clinic
Community health center

Focus areas

Rural Family Medicine
Comprehensive Rural Practice
Community-Based Medical Care

Patient populations

Rural community patients
Emergency department patients
Obstetric patients
Acute and chronic inpatient patients
Long-term care patients
Palliative care patients

Highlights

Residents required to live in Listowel in PGY2
Up to 12 weeks of elective time in second year
Supported by nearby teaching sites
Minimized travel time between rotations

Strengths

Comprehensive rural medical training
Flexible curriculum tailored to resident goals
Strong focus on community integration
Broad clinical experience across multiple medical domains

Enhanced skills

Comprehensive rural practice skills
Emergency medicine
Obstetrics
Surgical assist
Palliative care

By year

PGY-1

Family MedicineListowel16 weeks
Off-service rotationsListowel, Stratford, WinghamRemaining blocks

PGY-2

ElectivesFlexibleUp to 12 weeks
Longitudinal Family MedicineListowelMajority of year

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

FMProC assessment
NAC examination
MCCQE Part I
Reference letters
Personal letter
CV/Clinical experience
Interview performance

Applications per year

601+

Applicants offered interviews

0–25%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 16 Jan 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 6 Jan 2025 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Contract expired, may change.

Annual salary by PGY level, Ontario
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$73,367 / year
PGY-2	$79,670 / year

One provincial scale for Ontario, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 2 levels this program covers.

Call

Call (provincial max): 7 nights in 28 in-house

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

PARO agreement, 1 Jul 2023 to 30 Jun 2026. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed.

Teaching sites

Listowel Memorial Hospital
Stratford General Hospital
Wingham Hospital

Hospital facts

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

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 2 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 Listowel.

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	0	0
2021	0	0
2022	0	0
2023	0	0
2024	1 position open after round 1 in 2024, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2025	2 positions open after round 1 in 2025, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2026	0	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

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

Rural Listowel, Ontario

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: −7.1 °C Mount Forest, 31.5 km away
July average: 19.4 °C Mount Forest, 31.5 km away
Snowfall: 152.3 cm a year Strathroy-Mullifarry, 100.0 km away (more than 50 km, so it may differ from the city)
Days below −20 °C: 8.2 days a year Mount Forest, 31.5 km away

People

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

Population: 15,538 people up 18.3% from 2016
Official languages: English only 96.5% · French only 0.0% · English and French 2.0% · neither 1.4% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 10.8% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 1.4% · non-permanent residents: 1.3%
Indigenous identity: 1.7% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 90.0% · public transit not reported · walking or cycling 8.0% · other 1.9% Average commute: 19.8 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: $84,000 before tax $74,500 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: Listowel, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people) 9,539 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.118 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.
Rurality Index for Ontario: RIO2008 score 42 Official page(opens in a new tab)Ontario Ministry of Health, RIO2008 scores; page updated 2025-01-10; checked 9 Oct 2026
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)

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: $52,873 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Ontario, population under 30,000, 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 Stratford - Bruce Peninsula 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.
Source: Ontario Ministry of Health, Rurality Index for Ontario (RIO2008) score, page updated 2025-01-10.
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.

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