Saguenay - Obstétrique et Gynécologie

Université de SherbrookeSaguenay, QuebecRegular stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved date not on file

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

Positions (approx. quota): 1 position
Length: 5 years
Stream: Regular
Discipline: Obstétrique et Gynécologie
Applications per year: 0–50
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Not stated on CaRMS page
CaRMS program ID: 29902

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

Summary

The Université de Sherbrooke offers a comprehensive 5-year Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program with two training locations: Estrie (Sherbrooke) and Saguenay. The program focuses on developing competent medical specialists who can provide high-quality, humanistic care across women's reproductive health, with a strong emphasis on personalized learning and progressive skill development.

Training

Research

Dedicated research periods, support for conference presentations, and opportunities to engage in scholarly activities throughout the residency.

Training setting

Training occurs across multiple sites including CIUSSS du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, CIUSSS de l'Estrie - CHUS, and several community hospitals, providing diverse clinical exposure.

Teaching approach

Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) with progressive independence, emphasizing theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and continuous assessment through various learning modalities including directed readings, formal courses, case discussions, and high-fidelity simulation.

Setting types

Academic medical center
Community hospitals
Regional medical centers

Focus areas

Women's reproductive health
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Surgical skills
Maternal-fetal medicine
Pediatric gynecology
Reproductive endocrinology
Gynecologic oncology

Patient populations

Women across all life stages
Pediatric patients
Geriatric patients
Pregnant women
Patients with reproductive health issues
Oncology patients

Highlights

Hybrid learning model
Simulation-based training
Regular academic activities
Dedicated research opportunities
Personalized learning environment
Multidisciplinary rounds
Dedicated resident study space
Conference participation support

Strengths

100% Royal College exam pass rate
Intimate, supportive learning environment
Comprehensive curriculum
Strong simulation training
Diverse clinical exposure
Structured academic program

Enhanced skills

Gynecologic oncology
Maternal-fetal medicine
Reproductive endocrinology
Urogynecology

By year

PGY-1

Introduction to Obstetrics-Gynecology2 periods
Obstetrics1 period
Medical Internal1 period
Infectiology1 period
General Surgery1 period
Intensive Care1 period
Family Planning1 period
Emergency Medicine1 period
Neonatology1 period

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

Academic performance
Clinical skills
Interview performance
Reference letters
Motivation letter
Extracurricular activities

Applications per year

0–50

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 2 février 2026; 3 février 2026

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)

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$58,728 / year
PGY-2	$64,809 / year
PGY-3	$70,890 / year
PGY-4	$76,969 / year
PGY-5	$83,050 / year

One provincial scale for Quebec, 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)

Adoption leave: 29 to 38 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Annual vacation: 20 days/year
Assistant Resident Coordinator: $425/month
Call Premium: $607/28 days
Conference leave: 7 days pd/year
Dental Plan: Yes, available for a fee
Exam leave: Day (s) of the exam
Extended Health Insurance: Yes
Leave for death in family: From 1 to 5 days depending on the family member
Leave of absence without pay (exceptional measure): 12 months maximum
Life insurance: Yes
Long-Term disability insurance: Yes
Maternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP*) and FMRQ **: 21 weeks95 % of salary
Meals: Reduced feeFree during on-call duty
Pager: Provided by the establishment
Parental leave (time sharing between parents): 19 to 29 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Parking: ½ of doctors’ feeFree during on-call duty
Paternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP) and FMRQ: 1 week, 100% of salary3 to 5 weeks, 100% of salary(two options)
Professional Liability Insurance****(CPMA not applicable): Yes (free)
Quebec Health Insurance Program / RAMQ***: Yes
Resident Coordinator: $583/month
Resuscitation courses and examination leave: Day of the course and of the exam, course paid
Sick leave: 9.6 days pd / yearAnd reimbursement of days not taken
Statutory and floating holidays: 13/year
Study leave: 10 days pd/year
Superior Financial Programs: Yes
Teaching Premium: $240/28 days
Wedding leave: 7 days paid + 7 days without pay

Call

Call (provincial max): 6 calls in an establishment per 28 days

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

FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028.

Teaching sites

CIUSSS du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean
CIUSSS de l'Estrie - CHUS
Hôpital Georges-Dumont
Hôpital Ste-Croix
Hôpital Honoré-Mercier
Hôpital régional de Rimouski

Hospital facts

Public figures for hospitals named above, each with its source and reference period. They describe the hospital, not the program, and are not a ranking. We match names to the province’s lists by name, so check each source before you rely on it.

Hôpital Ste-Croix

Matched to Hôpital Sainte-Croix (Drummondville) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 17,461 · 2026–2027: no row in the file Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 154 · psychiatry 25 · geriatrics 18 · neonatology 4 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Hôpital Honoré-Mercier

Matched to Hôpital Honoré-Mercier (Saint-Hyacinthe) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 19,098 · 2026–2027: 21,316 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 192 · psychiatry 35 · neonatology 4 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Sources and licences

Contient de l'information fournie par le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec et visée par CC BY 4.0. Données modifiées. (Contains information provided by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec under CC BY 4.0. Data modified.)

Unfilled positions in past years

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

Positions at this site, all streams.

Quebec: different match process, not directly comparable.

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

Saguenay, Quebec

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: −15.1 °C Bagotville, 13.9 km away
July average: 18.7 °C Bagotville, 13.9 km away
Snowfall: 301.7 cm a year Bagotville, 13.9 km away
Days below −20 °C: 43.1 days a year Bagotville, 13.9 km away

People

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

Population: 144,723 people down 0.8% from 2016
Official languages: English only 0.2% · French only 75.3% · English and French 24.4% · neither 0.1% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 1.4% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 0.3% · non-permanent residents: 1.1%
Indigenous identity: 3.8% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 91.9% · public transit 2.0% · walking or cycling 4.2% · other 1.9% Average commute: 16.5 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: $69,000 before tax $60,000 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: Chicoutimi - Jonquière, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 103,934 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.274 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: 1.3% October 2025 survey, Saguenay, Quebec (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $47,414 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Quebec, population 100,000 to 499,999, 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: 3.6% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Saguenay, Quebec (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: Moderate The employment outlook will be Moderate for specialists in surgery (NOC 31101) in the Saguenay - Lac-Saint-Jean region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033: Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for specialists in surgery, 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.