Surrey - Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine
University of British ColumbiaSurrey, British ColumbiaCompetitive stream
Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match
Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").
- 7 positions
- 1 year
- Competitive
- Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine
- 51–200
- 26–50%
- Accredited
- 34628
Summary
- This 1-year emergency medicine program is based at Surrey Memorial Hospital, where residents act as senior residents in the ED and ICU.
- Rotations include 16 weeks of high-acuity ED care at SMH, trauma at Royal Columbian Hospital, 4 weeks of rural training, and orthopedic-focused ED work in Whistler.
- An ultrasound boot camp aims for CPoCUS Independent Practitioner certification.
Training
- Setting
- Urban community
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Rural / remote
- Sites
4 teaching sites
- Surrey Memorial Hospital
- St. Paul’s Hospital
- Royal Columbian Hospital
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- Whistler Health Care Center
Distributed across a region
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation (4 weeks)
- Focus areas
- POCUS curriculum
- Procedural emphasis
- Highlights
- Based in a very high-volume ED with a separate pediatric emergency department of about 45,000 annual visits.
- Four-week orthopedic-injury-focused ED rotation in Whistler.
- Some residents arrange their trauma rotation in South Africa.
By year
Not stated on CaRMS page
Other rotations
- ED High Acuity ED Care (16 weeks · SMH)
- tertiary hospital (4 weeks · sites across the Fraser Valley)
- rural (4 weeks · a variety of sites across BC)
- quaternary hospital (4 weeks · several sites across BC, including SMH)
- Trauma (4 weeks · Royal Columbian Hospital)
- ICU (6 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
- Pediatric ED (4 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
- ED with focus on acute orthopedic injuries (4 weeks · Whistler Health Care Clinic/ED)
- CCU (2 weeks · Surrey Memorial Hospital)
- combined adult & pediatric anesthesia (4 weeks)
- Optional toxicology/emergency block
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
- Not stated on CaRMS page
- Applications per year
- 51–200
- Applicants offered interviews
- 26–50%
Interviews
- Dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
- 19 and 20 Nov 2026
- Mode
- Virtual
- Format
- MMI or rotating station
Pay
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-3 | $86,655 / year |
Benefits
- Annual vacation
- 4 weeks
- CMPA dues paid
- Yes. Mandatory
- Dental plan
- 100% Premiums Paid
- Educational leave
- Yes
- Extended health insurance
- 100% Premiums Paid
- Frequency of calls
- 1 in 4 onsite/1 in 3 offsite
- Life insurance
- 100% Premium Paid
- Long-term disability insurance
- Yes 100% Premiums Paid
- Maternity leave
- 17 weeks, plus up to 78 weeks Parental Leave
- Meal allowance
- No
- Provincial dues (% of salary)
- 1.5%
- Provincial health insurance
- 100% Premiums Paid
- Sick leave
- Yes
- Statutory holidays
- 2 x pay plus extra day with pay
Call
- Call (provincial max)
- 1 in 4 in-house
Teaching sites
- Surrey Memorial Hospital (Surrey)
- St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver)
- Royal Columbian Hospital (New Westminster)
- Whistler Health Care Center (Whistler · rural or distributed site)
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.
Surrey Memorial Hospital
- Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
- 11,911
- Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
- 2,849
St. Paul’s Hospital
- Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
- 8,691
- Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
- 2,240
Royal Columbian Hospital
- Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
- 4,798
- Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
- 1,447
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
Program director
Dr. Patrick Prendergast
CaRMS lists no email for the director.
Site staffdirectors and coordinators at the teaching sites
Dr Sally Barrio
EM Surrey Site Director
Ms April Dolap
EM Surrey Site Administrator
Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.
More links
Links the program published on CaRMS
Location
Surrey, British Columbia
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
- January average
- 3.6 °C
- July average
- 18.8 °C
- Snowfall
- 36.6 cm a year
- Days below −20 °C
- 0.0 days a year
People
- Population
- 568,322 people
- Official languages
- English only 89.4% · French only 0.0% · English and French 3.9% · neither 6.7%
- Immigrants
- 44.6% of residents
- Indigenous identity
- 2.2% of residents
- How people commute
- car, truck or van 82.2% · public transit 13.1% · walking or cycling 2.9% · other 1.8%
- Median household income
- $98,000 before tax
Rural and remote
- Population centre
- Vancouver, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people)
- Remoteness index
- 0.107
Housing, cost and work
- Rental vacancy rate
- 3.7%
- Basic cost of living
- $64,351 a year
- Unemployment rate
- 6.5%