Miramichi - Family Medicine
Dalhousie UniversityMiramichi, Nova ScotiaNew Brunswicker IMG stream
From the 2026 match (R-1 2026). See the 2027 version
- 1 position
- 2 years
- New Brunswicker IMG
- Family Medicine
- 601+
- 0–25%
- Accredited
- 31033
Summary
The Miramichi Family Medicine residency program offers a true community family medicine experience in a welcoming, friendly region of New Brunswick. Residents will have comprehensive training across various clinical settings, with a focus on providing dynamic, hands-on learning and preparing competent family physicians ready to manage diverse clinical situations.
Training
- Research
- Residents are required to complete a scholarly project with protected time, focusing on critically reviewing literature and potentially designing studies to answer primary care questions.
- Training setting
- A small city with a rural community base, featuring a 146-bed hospital with comprehensive specialty services and multiple local clinics serving the population's needs.
- Teaching approach
- Competency-based medical education with progressive independence, emphasizing hands-on learning, patient-centered care, and developing physicians who can practice in diverse healthcare environments.
- Setting types
- Community hospital
- Rural clinic
- Urban medical center
- Focus areas
- Community Family Medicine
- Rural Medicine
- Comprehensive Patient Care
- Indigenous Health
- Addictions and Mental Health
- Palliative Care
- Emergency Medicine
- Patient populations
- Newborn patients
- End-of-life care patients
- Hospital inpatients
- Emergency room patients
- Nursing home residents
- Community clinic patients
- Indigenous community patients
- Patients with mental health and addiction needs
- Highlights
- Longitudinal experiential learning
- One-on-one preceptor to resident training
- Quality simulation training
- Teaching medical students
- Resident wellness support
- Dedicated onsite faculty for Resident Affairs
- Mandatory Family Medicine Resident Education Symposium (FMRES)
- Strengths
- Comprehensive clinical training across multiple settings
- Strong focus on community and rural medicine
- Dedicated resident wellness support
- Emphasis on social determinants of health
- Longitudinal learning model
- High preceptor to resident ratio
- Enhanced skills
- Emergency Medicine
- Palliative Care
- Care of the Elderly
By year
- PGY-1
- Selectives4 weeks
- Family MedicineLongitudinal
- Emergency MedicineLongitudinal
- Internal MedicineLongitudinal
- General SurgeryLongitudinal
- PGY-2
- Electives8 weeks
- Family MedicineLongitudinal
- PediatricsLongitudinal
- PsychiatryLongitudinal
- Care of the ElderlyLongitudinal
Selection
- What the program looks at
- NAC examination
- FMProC assessment
- Reference letters
- Personal letter
- CV review
- Multi-Mini Interview (MMI)
- Applications per year
- 601+
- Applicants offered interviews
- 0–25%
Interviews
- Dates (2026 match)
- 13 and 24 Nov 2025; 10 and 23 Jan 2026; 6 Feb 2026
Pay
| Level | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| PGY-1 | $78,578 / year |
| PGY-2 | $83,904 / year |
Benefits
- 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
Teaching sites
- Miramichi Regional Hospital
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
Miramichi, Nova Scotia
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