Halifax - Internal Medicine

Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, Nova ScotiaCMG stream

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CaRMS program description, 2026 match, last approved 9 Oct 2025

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

Positions (approx. quota): 15 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: CMG
Discipline: Internal Medicine
Applications per year: 401–600
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 29141

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

Summary

The Dalhousie University Internal Medicine Residency Program provides comprehensive training in internal medicine across the Maritime provinces. Located at the QEII Health Sciences Centre, the program offers residents in-depth experience in all disciplines of internal medicine with exposure to inpatients and outpatients. The program is built on the principle of graded responsibility and aims to develop outstanding internal medicine physicians who can practice in both community and academic settings.

Training

Research

Residents participate in a two-month Research Methods course, can complete research electives, and are supported in submitting abstracts to conferences and peer-reviewed publications.

Training setting

Training occurs at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Saint John Regional Hospital in New Brunswick, serving as tertiary and quaternary referral centers for the Maritime Provinces.

Teaching approach

The program follows the Royal College CanMEDS 2015 competencies, using a competency-based medical education approach with graded responsibility and progressive independence for residents.

Setting types

Academic Medical Center
Tertiary Care Center
Quaternary Care Center
Community Hospital Sites

Focus areas

General Internal Medicine
Subspecialty Medicine
Community Medicine
Ambulatory Care
Academic Medicine

Patient populations

Maritime Provinces Patients
Tertiary Care Patients
Quaternary Care Patients
Inpatients
Outpatients

Highlights

Research Methods Course for PGY1s
Conference and Continuing Education Support
Simulation Training
POCUS Training
Journal Club
Annual Resident Retreat
Longitudinal Research Elective
NEJM 360 Formative Internal Medicine MCQ Exam
Annual Faculty-Developed OSCE Exam

Strengths

Comprehensive Clinical Training
Collegial Learning Environment
Broad Subspecialty Exposure
Strong Academic Support
Supportive Program Leadership
Excellent Faculty Relationships

Enhanced skills

Research Skills
POCUS Training
Simulation Training

By year

PGY-1

Community Medicine RotationVarious Maritime Province Sites4 weeks
General Internal MedicineQEII Health Sciences CentreMultiple 4-week blocks
Saint John Regional Hospital RotationSaint John, NB2 rotations

PGY-2

Ambulatory Care ClinicSaint John Regional Hospital4 weeks
Subspecialty Ambulatory Care ClinicHalifax4 weeks
ElectivesVaries2 rotations

PGY-3

Consultant Role RotationsAmbulatory Care Clinics, Offices, Inpatient SettingsVarious
ElectivesVaries2 rotations

PGY-4

Royal College Certification PreparationHalifax6 months

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

What the program looks at

Medical Student Performance Record
Reference Letters
Personal Letter
CV
Electives Performance
Interview Performance

Applications per year

401–600

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2026 match): 9, 12, 20, 22, 27 and 29 Jan 2026

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 24 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$78,578 / year
PGY-2	$83,904 / year
PGY-3	$89,462 / year
PGY-4	$95,485 / year
PGY-5	$101,926 / year

One provincial scale for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 5 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
Call stipend: Yes
CMPA dues paid: Yes
Dental coverage: Yes
Educational leave: Yes
Extended health insurance: Yes
Frequency of call: l in 4 in-hospital and for homecall
Life insurance: $100,000 of insurance
Long-term disabilityinsurance: 66.7% of salary
Maternity leave top up after one year’s service: eligible for up to a maximum of 17 weeks top-up allowance for maternity/pregnancy leave
Provincial dues (% of salary): 1.30%
Provincial health insurance: Yes
Sick leave: Yes
Statutory and floating holidays: paid

Call

Call (provincial max): 1 night 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.

MarDocs agreement, 1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2027.

Teaching sites

QE II Health Sciences Centre
Saint John Regional Hospital
The Moncton Hospital

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.

Saint John Regional Hospital

Matched to Saint John Regional Hospital / Hôpital Régional de Saint John (Saint John) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds: 445 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

The Moncton Hospital

Matched to The Moncton Hospital / L’Hôpital de Moncton (Moncton) in the province’s hospital list.

Inpatient beds: 381 As listed in the province’s dataset, whose rows were last updated 24 Apr 2019; the count may be older.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – New Brunswick.

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

Halifax, Nova Scotia

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: −4.1 °C Shearwater, 11.0 km away
July average: 18.5 °C Shearwater, 11.0 km away
Snowfall: 215.2 cm a year Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 20.9 km away
Days below −20 °C: 0.9 days a year Shearwater, 11.0 km away

People

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

Population: 439,819 people up 9.1% from 2016
Official languages: English only 87.1% · French only 0.1% · English and French 12.2% · neither 0.6% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 11.6% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 4.1% · non-permanent residents: 3.9%
Indigenous identity: 3.8% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 81.5% · public transit 8.1% · walking or cycling 8.0% · other 2.4% Average commute: 21.4 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: $81,000 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: Halifax, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 348,634 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.199 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: 2.6% October 2025 survey, Halifax, Nova Scotia (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $54,855 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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: 5.8% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Halifax, Nova Scotia (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.5 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: Very good The employment outlook will be Very good for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine (NOC 31100) in the Halifax region for the 2025-2027 period.
Canada-wide, to 2033: Strong risk of Shortage ESDC’s projection for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine, 2024–2033. Recent conditions, 2021–2023: Strong signs of Shortage.