Swift Current - Regional - Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine
University of SaskatchewanSwift Current, SaskatchewanCompetitive stream
- 1 position
- 3 years
- Competitive
- Family Medicine integrated Emergency Medicine
- 601+
- 26–50%
- Accredited
- 36276
Summary
- This is a 3-year integrated Family Medicine-Emergency Medicine program based at Cypress Regional Hospital in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
- Residents write the CCFP exam in Year 2 and the CCFP EM exam after Year 3.
- Some rotations take place in Prince Albert, Regina, Moose Jaw and Saskatoon, and the program ends with a 12-week Transition to Practice block.
Training
- Setting
- Regional community
- Academic / tertiary hospital
- Rural / remote
- Sites
5 teaching sites
- Cypress Regional Hospital
- Associate Family Physicians Clinic
- Jim Pattison’s Children’s Hospital
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- RUH CCU
- Regina STARS base
Distributed across a region
- Rural exposure
- Required rural rotation (12 weeks)
- Focus areas
- Rural / remote
- POCUS curriculum
- Longitudinal / integrated
- Research
- Offered · 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
- Leads to both CCFP and CCFP(EM) within a single integrated 3-year program at a regional site.
- Transition to Practice includes STARS air ambulance transport and EMS prehospital shifts.
By year
- PGY-1
- Family Medicine17 weeks
- Obstetrics6 weeks
- General Surgery4 weeks
- Psychiatry4 weeks
- Pediatrics4 weeks
- Internal medicine4 weeks
- Emergency Medicine4 weeks
- Pediatric EM4 weeks
- Anesthesia3 weeks
- PGY-2
- Family Medicine20 weeks
- Rural Family Medicine8 weeks
- Internal Medicine4 weeks
- Electives4 weeks
- Obstetrics4 weeks
- ICU4 weeks
- Trauma4 weeks
- Anesthesia2 weeks
- PGY-3
- Longitudinal EM26 weeks
- Transition to Practice12 weeks
- Electives4 weeks
- Critical Care Selective (PICU/CCU)4 weeks
- Rural FM4 weeks
- Ortho2 weeks
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
- Required · IMGs only
- Applications per year
- 601+
- Applicants offered interviews
- 26–50%
Interviews
- Dates (2027 match)
- 20, 21, 22 and 23 Jan 2027
- Mode
- Virtual
Pay
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-1 | $68,329 / year |
| PGY-2 | $74,518 / year |
| PGY-3 | $80,700 / year |
Benefits
- 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
Teaching sites
- Cypress Regional Hospital (Swift Current)
- Associate Family Physicians Clinic (Swift Current)
- Jim Pattison’s Children’s Hospital (Saskatoon)
- RUH CCU (Saskatoon)
- Regina STARS base (Regina)
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.
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 directors
Dr. Sheila Smith
Faculty profile of Dr. Sheila Smith(opens in a new tab)
Emergency Medicine
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
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About the city
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Climate
- January average
- −10.8 °C
- July average
- 18.3 °C
- Snowfall
- 88.0 cm a year
- Days below −20 °C
- 30.4 days a year
People
- Population
- 16,750 people
- Official languages
- English only 95.2% · French only 0.0% · English and French 4.5% · neither 0.3%
- Immigrants
- 13.0% of residents
- 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%
- Median household income
- $78,000 before tax
Rural and remote
- Population centre
- Swift Current, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people)
- Remoteness index
- 0.403
Housing, cost and work
- Rental vacancy rate
- 5.5%
- Basic cost of living
- $51,502 a year