Winnipeg - Family Medicine - Family Practice Anesthesia

University of ManitobaWinnipeg, ManitobaCompetitive stream

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) match

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

Contacts and 1 more link

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

Positions (approx. quota): 3 positions
Length: 1 year
Stream: Competitive
Discipline: Family Medicine - Family Practice Anesthesia
Applications per year: 0–50
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 34638

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

Summary

This 1-year family practice anesthesia program prepares physicians to work in rural or remote environments.
Most training is adult tertiary anesthesia at Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface General Hospital, with community, obstetric, ICU, pediatric and rural blocks.
Residents do rural continuity days in Selkirk and Portage la Prairie and must sign a 1-year return of service with Manitoba.

Training

Setting

Academic / tertiary hospital
Urban community
Rural / remote

Sites

9 teaching sites

Health Sciences Centre
St. Boniface General Hospital
Victoria General Hospital

Show all 9

Grace Hospital
Concordia hospital
Women’s Hospital at HSC
Pan Am Day Surgery Centre
Selkirk
Portage la Prairie

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Required rural rotation

Focus areas

Rural / remote
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Call

In-house call

Getting around

A car is recommended

Highlights

Rural continuity anesthesia days during each tertiary/community block, split between Selkirk and Portage la Prairie.
Mandatory 1-year return-of-service contract with Manitoba for all successful applicants.
One rural block completed in the community where the resident intends to practise.

By year

Not stated on CaRMS page

Other rotations

Listed by the program without a single year.

Adult anesthesia and our local Boot Camp (Block One)
Tertiary Anesthesia (5 · Health Sciences Centre and St. Boniface General Hospital)
Community Anesthesia (1 · Victoria General Hospital, the Grace Hospital and Concordia hospital)
Obstetric Anesthesia (1 · Women’s Hospital at HSC or St Boniface Hospital)
ICU (1 · Surgical ICU or Medical ICU at Health Science Centre or the mixed ICU at St Boniface Hospital)
Pediatric Anesthesia (2 · Rural based / HSC Pediatric OR)
Rural Anesthesia (1 block and continuity days · Selkirk and Portage la Prairie)
Selective (1)
Regional Anesthesia (Selective option)
Chronic Pain Service (Selective option · HSC and the Pan am sites)

Selection

Application file components

CV
Electives
Examinations
Extra-curricular
Leadership skills
MSPRs
Personal letters
Reference documents
Research/Publications
Transcripts

Return of service

Required · this stream · 1 year

Applications per year

0–50

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (FM/ES 2027 match)

Not stated on CaRMS page

Mode

Virtual

Format

Panel

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 22 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Manitoba
Level	Annual salary
PGY-3	$83,372 / year

One provincial scale for Manitoba, 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.

Call

Call (provincial max): 7 calls per 4-week block, in-house and home call combined

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

PARIM agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)
St. Boniface General Hospital (Winnipeg)
Victoria General Hospital (Winnipeg)
Grace Hospital (Winnipeg)
Concordia hospital (Winnipeg)
Women’s Hospital at HSC (Winnipeg)
Pan Am Day Surgery Centre (Winnipeg)
Selkirk (Selkirk · rural or distributed site)
Portage la Prairie (Portage la Prairie · rural or distributed site)

Hospital facts

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

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

collette.thiessen@umanitoba.ca

Collette Thiessen · Administrative Assistant

Program directors

Dr. Sheila Felsch
Dr. Tyler Bullen

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

Winnipeg, Manitoba

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: −16.3 °C Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 7.2 km away
July average: 19.5 °C Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 7.2 km away
Snowfall: 126.2 cm a year Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 7.2 km away
Days below −20 °C: 51.9 days a year Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 7.2 km away

People

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

Population: 749,607 people up 6.3% from 2016
Official languages: English only 88.5% · French only 0.2% · English and French 9.7% · neither 1.7% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 27.3% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 6.2% · non-permanent residents: 4.1%
Indigenous identity: 12.4% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 82.6% · public transit 9.3% · walking or cycling 6.1% · other 2.0% Average commute: 21.8 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: $80,000 before tax $69,500 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: Winnipeg, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 758,515 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.146 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: 2.8% October 2025 survey, Winnipeg, Manitoba (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $55,813 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 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.
Unemployment rate: 5.0% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Winnipeg, Manitoba (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.4 points. A survey estimate.

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 34-10-0130-01. 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 14-10-0459-01 Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted, reference month 2026-09. 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.

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.