Sussex - Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine

Dalhousie UniversitySussex, 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): 2 positions
Length: 3 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine
Applications per year: 401–600
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 30204

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

Summary

The Dalhousie Family Medicine Integrated Emergency Medicine (iFMEM) program is an innovative three-year training pathway that combines comprehensive family medicine with enhanced emergency medicine skills. Located in Saint John and Sussex, New Brunswick, this program prepares family physicians to provide comprehensive patient care and leadership in emergency settings, particularly in rural and community contexts.

Training

Research

Residents are required to complete a scholarly project with protected time for research activities, emphasizing evidence-based medicine and critical review of medical literature.

Training setting

A distributed training environment spanning urban and rural settings in New Brunswick, including Saint John Regional Hospital, Sussex Health Centre, and Miramichi Regional Hospital, with a strong emphasis on community-based medical practice.

Teaching approach

Competency-based medical education with a focus on progressive independence, longitudinal skill development, and integration of family medicine and emergency medicine competencies across three years of training.

Setting types

Academic medical center
Community hospital
Rural clinic
Tertiary care center

Focus areas

Family Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Rural Medicine
Community Healthcare
Comprehensive Patient Care

Patient populations

Rural community patients
Urban hospital patients
Emergency department patients
Comprehensive family medicine patient panel
Geriatric patients
Pediatric patients

Highlights

First integrated Family Medicine Emergency Medicine program in Canada
Longitudinal learning model
Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) training
Mandatory Family Medicine Resident Education Symposium
Scholarly project requirement
Ten weeks of electives in PGY2
Advanced certification preparation (CCFP and CCFP-EM)

Strengths

Comprehensive training in family and emergency medicine
Strong rural medicine focus
Diverse clinical experiences
Supportive learning environment
Excellent research infrastructure
Longitudinal patient care opportunities

Enhanced skills

Emergency Medicine
Point of Care Ultrasound
Care of the Elderly
Palliative Care

By year

PGY-1

Community Family MedicineCore experience in the community of Miramichi. Residents will do comprehensive family medicine including office visits, inpatient care, and family medicine call, as well as shifts in the Miramichi Regional Hospital Emergency Department.10 weeks
Core Family MedicineCore experience in office-based family medicine in Saint John. Includes scheduled time to complete shifts in the Saint John Regional Hospital Emergency Department (1x/week), in-patient care, and family medicine call, along with weekly core family medicine curriculum sessions.8 weeks
Intro to Family MedicineFor their first block, residents have a series of introductory sessions as well as core curriculum sessions and simulation sessions for two days a week. For the remaining three days a week, residents work with their core family medicine preceptor.4 weeks
Intro to Emergency MedicineCore experience at the Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) Emergency Department; combination of day, evening and night shifts, as well as weekly learner simulation sessions. Additionally, there are weekly curriculum sessions introducing emergency care; many sessions are with interprofessional colleagues.4 weeks
General MedicineSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including Internal Medicine Teaching Unit in-hospital care, as well as consultation services to emergency department.4 weeks
Obstetrics/GynecologySpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including Labour & Birth Unit at SJRH, operating room, wards, gynecology clinic, and emergency consults at SJRH ED.4 weeks
Geriatric MedicineSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital. Includes inpatient geriatrics consultation service, inpatient geriatrics assessment care, and outpatient clinics.4 weeks
Palliative CareSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including in-patient care on the Palliative Care Unit, in-hospital consultation service, Hospice care, home consultations and emergency consultation service.4 weeks
OrthopaedicsSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including clinics at SJRH, operating room, wards, and consultation services to the emergency department at SJRH.4 weeks
PediatricsSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including clinics, in-patient care and emergency consults at SJRH ED.4 weeks
VacationScheduled at residents' request4 weeks
AnaesthesiaIncluding operating room experience and on-call services; this rotation takes place in Frederiction.2 weeks

PGY-2

Core Family MedicineCore experience in office-based family medicine in Saint John, including shifts in the Saint John Regional Hospital Emergency Department, inpatient care, and family medicine call, as well as weekly core family medicine curriculum.16 weeks
Community Family MedicineCore experience in the community of Miramichi. Residents will do comprehensive family medicine including office visits, inpatient care, and family medicine call, as well as shifts in the Miramichi Regional Hospital Emergency Department.12 weeks
Reproductive HealthFamily medicine clinic-based rotation including Family Medicine Prenatal Clinic, Women’s Health & Pap Clinic, gender affirming care, sexual health, care of the assaulted patient, as well as on-call experience in the Labour & Birth Unit and emergency consults at SJRH ED.4 weeks
General MedicineSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including Internal Medicine Teaching Unit in-hospital care, as well as consultation services to wards and emergency department.4 weeks
Pediatric Emergency MedicinePediatric emergency medicine at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.4 weeks
Emergency MedicineCore experience at the Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) Emergency Department; combination of day, evening and night shifts, as well as weekly learner simulation sessions.4 weeks
Elective(s)4 weeks
VacationScheduled at residents' request4 weeks
SurgerySpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including operating room, wards, consultation services to the SJRH ED, and clinics (including minor procedures, breast evaluation, proctology).2 weeks
Surgical ClinicsSpecialty surgical clinics in plastic surgery and orthopedics, including urgent follow up from the emergency department. With hands on skills in office procedures and casting.2 weeks

PGY-3

Emergency MedicineCore experience at the Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) Emergency Department; combination of day, evening and night shifts, as well as weekly learner simulation sessions. Includes ten half days of intensive emergency procedural skills & critical care simulation.16 weeks
Core Family MedicineCore experience in office-based family medicine in Saint John, including shifts in the Saint John Regional Hospital Emergency Department, inpatient care, and family medicine call.8 weeks
Community Family MedicineCore experience in the community of Miramichi. Residents will do comprehensive family medicine including office visits, inpatient care, and family medicine call, as well as shifts in the Miramichi Regional Hospital Emergency Department. Residents will do approximately two days per week in family medicine and three shifts per week in the emergency department.8 weeks
Intensive Care UnitSpecialty rotation at the Saint John Regional Hospital, including inpatient critical care medicine and emergency department consultation service.4 weeks
Cardiac Care UnitSpecialty rotation in cardiology inpatient care and Cardiac Care Unit (CCU). Includes in-patient care, clinics, code team, and emergency consultation service.4 weeks
Critical Care SelectiveResidents may choose between an additional experience in Intensive Care Unit or Cardiac Care Unit.4 weeks
Trauma SelectiveIncluding inpatient CCU rounds, emergency and inpatient consultation services4 weeks
Selective(s)Will be targeted as a trauma rotation away via sites such as St. Mike’s or Sunnybrook in Toronto (location TBD) with focus on TTL experience and trauma related procedural skills4 weeks
VacationScheduled at residents' request4 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

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

Applications per year

401–600

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 13, 24 and 27 Nov 2025; 10 and 26 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
PGY-3	$89,462 / 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 3 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
Sussex Health Centre
Miramichi Regional Hospital
St. Joseph's Urgent Care 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.

Sussex Health Centre

Matched to Sussex Health Centre / Centre de Santé de Sussex (Sussex) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds: 25 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

Miramichi Regional Hospital

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

Inpatient beds: 150 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

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St. Joseph's Urgent Care Centre

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

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

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

Sussex, 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 Sussex/Four Corners, 2.5 km away
July average: 19.7 °C Sussex/Four Corners, 2.5 km away
Snowfall: 247.7 cm a year Sussex/Four Corners, 2.5 km away
Days below −20 °C: 12.3 days a year Sussex/Four Corners, 2.5 km away

People

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

Population: 4,440 people up 3.7% from 2016
Official languages: English only 86.6% · French only not reported · English and French 13.0% · neither 0.3% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 4.6% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 2.3% · non-permanent residents: 1.7%
Indigenous identity: 2.1% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 86.4% · public transit not reported · walking or cycling 11.1% · other 2.8% Average commute: 15.8 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: $54,800 before tax $50,000 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: Sussex, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people) 5,447 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.319 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.

Basic cost of living: $50,975 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, New Brunswick, 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.