Winnipeg - Orthopedic Surgery

University of ManitobaWinnipeg, ManitobaCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 25 Nov 2025

From the 2026 match (R-1 2026). See the 2027 version

Positions (approx. quota): 3 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Orthopedic Surgery
Applications per year: 51–200
Applicants offered interviews: 76–100%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 29625

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

Summary

The University of Manitoba Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program is a comprehensive 5-year training program designed to prepare residents to become consultant general orthopedic surgeons. Located in Winnipeg, the program offers extensive clinical exposure across multiple specialized orthopedic areas with a strong commitment to academic and scholarly development.

Training

Research

Residents are expected to be involved in clinical research projects and present their work at Orthopedic Surgery Residents Research Day.

Training setting

Urban medical training environment in Winnipeg, Manitoba, spanning multiple teaching hospitals including Health Sciences Centre, Pan Am Clinic, Concordia Hospital, and Children's Hospital.

Teaching approach

Competency-Based Medical Education focusing on progressive skill development, frequent formative assessments, and milestone-based learning with increasing levels of surgical responsibility.

Setting types

Academic medical center
Tertiary care center
Community hospital

Focus areas

Adult Trauma Surgery
Pediatric Orthopedics
Sports Medicine
Spine Surgery
Hand Surgery
Adult Reconstruction
Foot and Ankle Surgery
Orthopedic Oncology

Patient populations

Trauma patients
Pediatric patients
Sports injury patients
Orthopedic oncology patients
Adult reconstruction patients

Highlights

Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME)
Protected academic half day
Research day with University of Saskatchewan
Conference attendance funding
Video-linked teaching sites
Research opportunities
Interprovincial and international electives

Strengths

Comprehensive 5-year training program
Strong academic and research components
Exposure to multiple orthopedic subspecialties
3:1 or better teacher to learner ratio
Faculty with fellowship training in all subspecialties

Enhanced skills

Not stated on CaRMS page

By year

PGY-1

Adult Trauma Orthopedic Surgery3 blocks
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery3 blocks
Foot and Ankle Surgery1 block
Orthopedic Hand Surgery1 block
Orthopedic Sports Surgery1 block
Trauma Surgery1 block
Emergency Medicine1 block
Orthopedic Spine Surgery1 block
Adult Reconstruction Orthopedic Surgery1 block

PGY-2

Adult Trauma Orthopedic Surgery2 blocks
Sports Orthopedic Surgery2 blocks
Adult Reconstruction Orthopedic Surgery2 blocks
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery1 block
Surgical Intensive Care Unit1 block
Perioperative Medicine1 block
Vascular Surgery1 block
Plastic Hand Surgery1 block
Orthopedic Oncology1 block
Orthopedic Spine Surgery1 block

PGY-3

Adult Reconstruction Orthopedic Surgery3 blocks
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery3 blocks
Orthopedic Spine Surgery3 blocks
Adult Trauma Orthopedic Surgery2 blocks
Orthopedic Oncology1 block
Orthopedic Sports Surgery1 block

PGY-4

Orthopedic Sports Surgery3 blocks
Internal or External Electives3 blocks
Adult Reconstruction Orthopedic Surgery2 blocks
Foot and Ankle Surgery2 blocks
Adult Trauma Orthopedic Surgery1 block
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery1 block
Orthopedic Hand Surgery1 block

PGY-5

Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery3 blocks
Adult Trauma Orthopedic Surgery2 blocks
Sports Orthopedic Surgery2 blocks
Spine Orthopedic Surgery2 blocks
Exam Preparation2 blocks
Adult Reconstruction Orthopedic Surgery1 block
Orthopedic Oncology1 block

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

CV review
Personal letter
Medical Student Performance Record (MSPR)
Reference letters
Interview performance

Applications per year

51–200

Applicants offered interviews

76–100%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 21 Jan 2026

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-1	$72,171 / year
PGY-2	$77,416 / year
PGY-3	$83,372 / year
PGY-4	$89,329 / year
PGY-5	$95,285 / year

One provincial scale for Manitoba, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 levels this program covers.

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
Pan Am Clinic
Concordia Hospital
Children's Hospital

Hospital facts

Hospital size and activity: Manitoba 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

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

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.

Job outlook

Employment and Social Development Canada’s rating for the occupation in the economic region. It is not a count of jobs, and says nothing about CaRMS positions or your match.

Outlook, 2025–2027: Good The employment outlook will be Good for specialists in surgery (NOC 31101) in the Winnipeg region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033: Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for specialists in surgery, 2024–2033. Recent conditions, 2021–2023: Strong signs of Shortage.

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.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS), 2024 to 2033 projections).
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada, 3-Year Employment Outlooks).
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 5 Oct 2026.