Swift Current - Regional - Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine

University of SaskatchewanSwift Current, SaskatchewanCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 8 Sep 2026 · See the 2026 version

2027 match programs, from CaRMS as of 5 Oct 2026. Programs can still change until file review opens 26 November; we re-check every two weeks. Always confirm on CaRMS (opens in a new tab).

Positions (approx. quota): 1 position
Length: 3 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine
Applications per year: 601+
Applicants offered interviews: 26–50%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 35903

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

Summary

This is a 3-year integrated Family Medicine-Emergency Medicine program based in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, leading to CCFP and CCFP (EM) designations.
Cypress Regional Hospital is the primary teaching site, with some rotations in Prince Albert, Regina, Moose Jaw and Saskatoon.
Year 3 includes 26 weeks of longitudinal EM and a 12-week Transition to Practice rotation.

Training

Setting

Regional community
Academic / tertiary hospital
Rural / remote

Sites

4 teaching sites

Cypress Regional Hospital
Associate Family Physicians Clinic
Jim Pattison’s Children’s Hospital

Show all 4

RUH CCU

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Required rural rotation (8 weeks)

Focus areas

Rural / remote
POCUS curriculum
Longitudinal / integrated

Research

Offered · research project · protected time

Call

In-house and home call · frequency “1 night out of 4”

Getting around

A car is required
Housing away from the home site is provided or paid for
Travel is reimbursed

Highlights

Transition to Practice includes transport medicine shifts at the Regina STARS base and EMS ride-alongs.
Integrated three-year program leading to both CCFP and CCFP (EM) designations.

By year

PGY-1

Family MedicineSwift Current17 weeks
ObstetricsPrince Albert/Swift Current6 weeks
General SurgerySwift Current4 weeks
PsychiatrySwift Current4 weeks
PediatricsSwift Current4 weeks
Internal medicineSwift Current4 weeks
Emergency MedicineSwift Current4 weeks
Pediatric EMJPCH4 weeks
AnesthesiaSwift Current3 weeks

PGY-2

Family MedicineSwift Current20 weeks
Rural Family Medicine8 weeks
Internal MedicineSwift Current4 weeks
Electives4 weeks
ObstetricsSwift Current4 weeks
ICURegina4 weeks
TraumaRegina4 weeks
AnesthesiaSwift Current2 weeks

PGY-3

Longitudinal EMSwift Current26 weeks
Transition to PracticeSwift Current12 weeks
Electives4 weeks
Critical Care Selective (PICU/CCU)Saskatoon4 weeks
Rural FMMeadow/Yorkton/NB4 weeks
OrthoMoose Jaw2 weeks

From the program's rotation list.

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. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

Applications per year

601+

Applicants offered interviews

26–50%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match): 20, 21, 22 and 23 Jan 2027
Mode: Virtual

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)

Contract expired, may change.

Annual salary by PGY level, Saskatchewan
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$68,329 / year
PGY-2	$74,518 / year
PGY-3	$80,700 / year

One provincial scale for Saskatchewan, 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
CMPA dues paid: 100%
Dental plan: 100%
Educational leave: Minimum 7 days with pay, 12 Maximum
Employee Assistance Program: Two programs available through SMA and University of Saskatchewan
Extended health insurance: Blue Cross family coverage, if registered with a Provincial Health Plan
Frequency of call: 1:4 in-house (if in excess of 1:4 paid $196/period from 1700-0800 weekdays and $249 from 0800-0800 weekends)*;1:3 out-of-house
Life insurance: Paid premium, >$100,000 coverage
Long-term disability insurance: Paid premium cost for Disability Insurance
Maternity leave/ Paternity: In conformity with Sask. Labour Standards Act – 17 weeks max maternity leave and up to 35 weeks parental leave.5 paid days paternity (can split the 35 weeks parental leave with mother as desired.)
Meal allowance: n/a
On-Call Stipends: Home Light: per duty period: $72 weekday; $83 weekendIn House: per duty period: $166 weekday; $191 weekendICU/CCU: per duty period: $166 weekday; $191 weekend
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1 %
Provincial health insurance: Yes, if registered with Sask. Health
Sick leave: 1.25 days per month to maximum 75 days
Statutory and floating holidays: 1.5 times pay or 1/2 pay & day off for stats, plus 6 extra paid days off at Christmas
Supplemental Maternity Leave Benefits: 15 weeks topped to 90% pay when eligible for Employment Insurance

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 in 4 in-house, averaged over a rotation

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

RDoS agreement, 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025. The term has ended; its terms continue until a new agreement is signed.

Teaching sites

Cypress Regional Hospital (Swift Current)
Associate Family Physicians Clinic (Swift Current)
Jim Pattison’s Children’s Hospital (Saskatoon)
RUH CCU (Saskatoon)

Hospital facts

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

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

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

jackie.powell@usask.ca

Jackie Powell · Program Administrator

306-773-6164

Program directors

Dr. Sheila Smith
Faculty profile of Dr. Sheila Smith(opens in a new tab)
Clinical Interests
Emergency Medicine
Source: medicine.usask.ca · checked Oct 2026
Dr. Kelsy Leavins
Swift Current iFM-EM Co-Director
Dr. Sarah Harrison
Swift Current iFM-EM Co-Director

CaRMS lists no email for the directors.

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.

Location

Swift Current, Saskatchewan

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: −10.8 °C Swift Current, 5.2 km away
July average: 18.3 °C Swift Current, 5.2 km away
Snowfall: 88.0 cm a year Swift Current, 5.2 km away
Days below −20 °C: 30.4 days a year Swift Current, 5.2 km away

People

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

Population: 16,750 people up 0.9% from 2016
Official languages: English only 95.2% · French only 0.0% · English and French 4.5% · neither 0.3% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 13.0% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 4.4% · non-permanent residents: 1.5%
Indigenous identity: 5.0% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 94.8% · public transit 0.5% · walking or cycling 3.9% · other 0.9% Average commute: 12.2 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: $78,000 before tax $68,500 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: Swift Current, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people) 16,304 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.403 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: 5.5% October 2025 survey, Swift Current, Saskatchewan (census agglomeration). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $51,502 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Saskatchewan, 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.

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 34-10-0132-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Statistics Canada of this product.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
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 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.

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