Saint John - Family Medicine

Dalhousie UniversitySaint John, New BrunswickCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 9 Oct 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 7 positions
Length: 2 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Family Medicine
Applications per year: 401–600
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 31032

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

Summary

The Dalhousie Family Medicine program trains residents to become comprehensive family physicians who can provide care across diverse settings in Maritime communities. The Saint John site offers a unique training experience with a focus on community-based learning, patient continuity, and comprehensive clinical skills.

Training

Research

Residents are required to complete a scholarly project with protected time and support for research activities.

Training setting

Urban medical center in Saint John, New Brunswick, with training across multiple clinical sites including Saint John Regional Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital, offering both community and tertiary care experiences.

Teaching approach

Preceptor-based learning model emphasizing progressive independence, continuity of care, and hands-on clinical experience across diverse medical settings.

Setting types

Tertiary care center
Community hospital
Community health center

Focus areas

Rural and Community Medicine
Family Medicine Comprehensive Care
Patient-Centered Care
Generalist Practice

Patient populations

Inpatient care patients
Community health center patients
Prenatal and obstetric patients
Geriatric patients
Emergency medicine patients
Palliative care patients

Highlights

Longitudinal patient panel experience
Half-day back family medicine program
High-fidelity simulation lab
Mandatory Family Medicine Resident Education Symposium (FMRES)
Scholarly project requirement
Funded advanced skills courses (ATLS, ALARM, ACLS, NRP)

Strengths

Comprehensive two-year training program
Distributed medical education across Maritime provinces
Strong focus on rural and community medicine
Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion
Extensive clinical exposure across multiple specialties

Enhanced skills

Emergency Medicine
Palliative Care
Care of the Elderly

By year

PGY-1

Core Family MedicineSaint John8 weeks
Internal MedicineSaint John8 weeks
PediatricsSaint John8 weeks
Intro to Family Medicine*Saint John4 weeks
General SurgerySaint John4 weeks
Emergency MedicineSaint John4 weeks
Obstetrics and GynecologySaint John4 weeks
Palliative CareSaint John4 Weeks
SelectiveResident's choice within home site4 weeks
Orthopaedic SurgerySaint John4 weeks
VacationScheduled at residents' request4 weeks

PGY-2

Core Family Medicine/PsychiatrySaint John, Residents will complete a longitudinal experience in Psychiatry during Core Family Medicine rotation.20 weeks
Community Family MedicineResident will live and work in a small Maritime community12 weeks
Electives4 weeks Resident's choice, 4 weeks Maritimes8 weeks
Cardiac Care UnitSaint John4 weeks
GeriatricsSaint John4 weeks
Prenatal Care & Gynecological HealthSaint John4 weeks
VacationScheduled at residents' request4 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
Reference letters
Personal letter
CV
Interview performance
FMProC assessment

Applications per year

401–600

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 13, 24 and 27 Nov 2025; 10, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 Jan 2026; 6 Feb 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 24 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$78,578 / year
PGY-2	$83,904 / year

One provincial scale for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 2 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
Call stipend: Yes
CMPA dues paid: Yes
Dental coverage: Yes
Educational leave: Yes
Extended health insurance: Yes
Frequency of call: l in 4 in-hospital and for homecall
Life insurance: $100,000 of insurance
Long-term disabilityinsurance: 66.7% of salary
Maternity leave top up after one year’s service: eligible for up to a maximum of 17 weeks top-up allowance for maternity/pregnancy leave
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1.30%
Provincial health insurance: Yes
Sick leave: Yes
Statutory and floating holidays: paid

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 night in 4 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.

MarDocs agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

Saint John Regional Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital
St. Joseph's Community Health Centre

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.

Saint John Regional Hospital

Matched to Saint John Regional Hospital / Hôpital Régional de Saint John (Saint John) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds: 445 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

St. Joseph's Hospital

Matched to St. Joseph's Hospital / Hôpital St. Joseph (Saint John) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds: 103 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – New Brunswick.

Unfilled positions in past years

Open after round 1 in 4 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: Saint John.

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	0	0
2022	1 position open after round 1 in 2022, CaRMS list (opens in a new tab)	0
2023	0	0
2024	0	0
2025	4 positions 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

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

Saint John, New Brunswick

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: −7.9 °C Saint John, 15.5 km away
July average: 17.3 °C Saint John, 15.5 km away
Snowfall: 214.8 cm a year Saint John, 15.5 km away
Days below −20 °C: 13.1 days a year Saint John, 15.5 km away

People

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

Population: 69,895 people up 3.4% from 2016
Official languages: English only 85.6% · French only 0.2% · English and French 13.6% · neither 0.6% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 8.1% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 3.7% · non-permanent residents: 2.4%
Indigenous identity: 2.8% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 85.6% · public transit 4.8% · walking or cycling 7.4% · other 2.3% Average commute: 15.3 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: $62,800 before tax $56,000 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: Saint John, a medium population centre (30,000 to 99,999 people) 63,447 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.278 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: 2.1% October 2025 survey, Saint John, New Brunswick (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $51,631 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Saint John, New Brunswick, 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: 5.6% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Saint John, New Brunswick (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.8 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: Very good The employment outlook will be Very good for general practitioners and family physicians (NOC 31102) in the Saint John - St. Stephen 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.