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Vancouver Island - Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine

University of British ColumbiaVancouver Island, British ColumbiaCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

Family medicine residents applying for a PGY-3 year (the "+1").

Contacts and 2 more links
Open on carms.ca(opens in a new tab)

Also at UBC, outside the CaRMS match:

From the school’s own pages, not CaRMS; you apply to the school, on its dates. Confirm on the school’s page before you apply.

CaRMS program description, FM/ES 2027 match, last approved 27 Aug 2026

Positions (approx. quota)
2 positions
Length
1 year
Stream
Competitive
Discipline
Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
Applications per year
0–50
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%
Accreditation
Accredited
CaRMS program ID
34632

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

Summary

  • This 1-year addiction medicine enhanced skills program trains family physicians to work as addiction care consultants in the Island Health region.
  • It has nine core blocks and three elective blocks, plus a year-long half-day community-based continuity experience.
  • The year begins with a two-week academic block at the BCCSU in Vancouver, and residents must present at the annual BCCSU conference.

Training

Setting
  • Mixed settings
Sites

12 teaching sites

  • Royal Jubilee Hospital
  • Victoria General Hospital
  • Nanaimo General Hospital
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  • Campbell River Hospital
  • Withdrawal Management Unit – Detox
  • (Victoria) Rapid Access Addiction Clinic
  • Cedars
  • Edgewood
  • Homewood Ravensview Treatment Centre
  • Foundry Youth clinic
  • Cool Aid Inner City Community Health Center
  • Her Way Home
Rural exposure
Not stated on CaRMS page
Focus areas
  • family_practice_continuity
Research
Required · protected time
Call
In-house and home call
Highlights
  • Builds on a Victoria-based clinical addiction medicine fellowship that has run since 2018, with 12 graduates.
  • Academic teaching is shared with social work, nurse practitioner, nursing and pharmacy fellows.

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

  • Acute care (Addiction Medicine Consult Service) (Core)
  • Inpatient Withdrawal Management Unit (Core)
  • Outpatient specialty addiction clinics (Core)
  • Inpatient concurrent psychiatric disorders (Core)
  • Youth addiction (Core)
  • Private treatment centre (Core · Homewood Ravensview Treatment Centre)
  • Longitudinal Outpatient Continuity of Care Experience (Core · year-long half-day)
  • perinatal substance use (Elective)
  • correctional facilities (Elective)
  • infectious diseases (HCV, HIV) (Elective)
  • Indigenous health and wellness (Elective)
  • dedicated research block (Elective)

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
0–50
Applicants offered interviews
76–100%

Interviews

Dates (FM/ES 2027 match)
15, 16 and 17 Oct 2026
Format
  • Traditional (one on one/two on one)
  • Panel
  • MMI or rotating station

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 2 Sep 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Salaries from April 2027.

Annual salary by PGY level, British Columbia
LevelAnnual salary
PGY-3
$86,655 / year

One provincial scale for British Columbia, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing PGY-3, the level FM/ES residents usually start at. Yours depends on your training so far.

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
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

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

RDBC agreement, 1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2029.

Teaching sites

  • Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria)
  • Victoria General Hospital (Victoria)
  • Nanaimo General Hospital (Nanaimo)
  • Campbell River Hospital (Campbell River)
  • Withdrawal Management Unit – Detox
  • (Victoria) Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (Victoria)
  • Cedars (Cobble Hill)
  • Edgewood (Nanaimo)
  • Homewood Ravensview Treatment Centre
  • Foundry Youth clinic
  • Cool Aid Inner City Community Health Center
  • Her Way Home

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.

Royal Jubilee Hospital

Matched to Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
14,532 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
3,973 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Victoria General Hospital

Matched to Victoria General Hospital (Victoria) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
8,131 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,108 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Nanaimo General Hospital

Matched to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (Nanaimo) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
9,004 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
2,040 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.
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Campbell River Hospital

Matched to North Island Hospital Campbell River and District (Campbell River) in the province’s hospital list.

Elective surgeries completed, 2025/26
2,628 All procedure groups, for the fiscal year (1 April to 31 March). Scheduled surgery only: emergency surgery is not in the file.
Elective surgeries completed, 2026/27 Q1
664 One quarter (April to June), interim figures, all procedure groups. Scheduled surgery only.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

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

“We are currently working remotely, so email contact is best.” · the program’s note on CaRMS

raman.jawanda@bccsu.ubc.ca

Raman Jawanda · Addiction Medicine Program Coordinator

Program directors

Site staffdirectors and coordinators at the teaching sites

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

Vancouver Island, British Columbia

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Independent. Not affiliated with CaRMS or the program. Programs edit their descriptions during the match; confirm on carms.ca (opens in a new tab) before you apply. Data last updated on CdnMD 8 Oct 2026.