Québec - Pediatrics

Université LavalQuébec, QuebecRegular stream

CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 10 Sep 2026 · See the 2026 version

2027 match programs, from CaRMS as of 5 Oct 2026. Programs can still change until file review opens 26 November; we re-check every two weeks. Always confirm on CaRMS (opens in a new tab).

Positions (approx. quota): 8 positions
Length: 4 years
Stream: Regular
Discipline: Pediatrics
Applications per year: 401–600
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 35416

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

Summary

This is a four-year pediatrics residency based mainly at the Centre mère-enfant of the CHU de Québec.
Residents complete a one-period regional pediatrics rotation in each of R2, R3 and R4 at affiliated regional hospitals.
Night months in neonatology and pediatrics are part of training, and residents run a longitudinal continuity clinic starting in the second half of R1.

Training

Setting

Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community

Sites

13 teaching sites

Centre mère-enfant (CME) du CHU de Québec
Hôpital St-François-d'Assise
IRDPQ (Institut de Réadaptation en Déficience Physique de Québec)

Show all 13

Clinique pédiatrique Ste-Foy
Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis
CISSS de la Gaspésie
CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches
CISSS de Lanaudière
CISSS du Bas St-Laurent (MRC de Rimouski-Neigette et MRC de Rivière-du-Loup)
CSSS de Lac St-Jean Est
Centre de pédopsychiatrie (CIUSS Capitale Nationale)
SIAM (Services intégrés en Abus et Maltraitance, CIUSS Capitale Nationale)
Maison Lémerveil Suzanne Vachon

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Optional rural rotation

Research

Offered · research project · protected time

Call

In-house and home call · night float

Training language

French

Highlights

Required one-month night rotations replace traditional overnight call across R2–R4, with 16 night shifts each.
Required pediatric palliative and complex care rotation includes the Lémerveil pediatric palliative care home.

By year

PGY-1

Unités d'enseignement clinique en pédiatrieCME (Centre Mère-Enfant du CHU de Québec)3
Urgence pédiatriqueCME1
Consultations à l'urgence et courts séjours pédiatriquesCME1
Soins ambulatoires pédiatriquesCME1
Pouponnière Centre Mère-EnfantCME1
Unité de soins intensifs néonatauxCME2
Unité de soins intensifs pédiatriquesCME1
Unité d’hémato-oncologie pédiatriqueCME (unité Charles-Bruneau)1
Stage à option (option A ou B ou recherche)CME1

PGY-2

Pédiatrie du développementCME, HDL, IRDPQ1
Pédiatrie en région (milieu communautaire ou rural)Hôpitaux régionaux affiliés du CIUSSS1
Pouponnière Pavillon SFAPavillon SFA1
Mois de nuitCME1
Stages à optionCME8

PGY-3

Unités d’enseignement clinique en pédiatrieCME2
Unité de soins intensifs pédiatriquesCME1
Unité de soins intensifs néonatauxCME1
Médecine de l’adolescenceCME1
Santé mentaleCME, HDL, Centre de pédopsychiatrie du CIUSSS1
Protection de l’enfanceCME, SIAM1
Pédiatrie en région (milieu communautaire ou rural)Hôpitaux régionaux affiliés du CIUSSS1
Mois de nuitCME1
Stages à option (A ou B ou recherche)CME, HDL, hôpitaux régionaux affiliés3

PGY-4

Unité d’enseignement clinique en pédiatrie pour transition vers la pratiqueCME1
Pouponnière pour transition vers la pratiqueHSFA, CME1
Clinique pédiatrique/soins ambulatoires pour transition vers la pratiqueCME, Clinique Pédiatrique Ste-Foy, HDL, hôpitaux régionaux affiliés2
Soins palliatifs et soins complexes pédiatriquesCME, maison de soins palliatifs pédiatriques Lémerveil1
Pédiatrie en région (milieu communautaire ou rural)Hôpitaux régionaux affiliés du CIUSSS1
Mois de nuitCME1
Stages à option (A ou B ou recherche)CME, HDL, hôpitaux régionaux affiliés4

From the program's rotation list.

Selection

Application file components

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

Return of service

Not stated on CaRMS page. Check the provincial return-of-service rules.

IMG requirements

Recent clinical experience (within 4 years)
Observerships don’t count as clinical experience

Applications per year

401–600

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)

25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 Jan 2027

Mode

Virtual

Format

Panel

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

Pay

Provincial scale, last updated 23 Jul 2026 · check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Annual salary by PGY level, Quebec
Level	Annual salary
PGY-1	$58,728 / year
PGY-2	$64,809 / year
PGY-3	$70,890 / year
PGY-4	$76,969 / year

One provincial scale for Quebec, set by the resident agreement, so every program there pays the same. Showing the 4 levels this program covers.

Benefits

Benefits as listed by CaRMS in 2022–2024; check the current agreement(opens in a new tab)

Adoption leave: 29 to 38 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Annual vacation: 20 days/year
Assistant Resident Coordinator: $425/month
Call Premium: $607/28 days
Conference leave: 7 days pd/year
Dental Plan: Yes, available for a fee
Exam leave: Day (s) of the exam
Extended Health Insurance: Yes
Leave for death in family: From 1 to 5 days depending on the family member
Leave of absence without pay (exceptional measure): 12 months maximum
Life insurance: Yes
Long-Term disability insurance: Yes
Maternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP*) and FMRQ **: 21 weeks95 % of salary
Meals: Reduced feeFree during on-call duty
Pager: Provided by the establishment
Parental leave (time sharing between parents): 19 to 29 weeks55 to 75 % of salary
Parking: ½ of doctors’ feeFree during on-call duty
Paternity leaveProvincial Program (RQAP) and FMRQ: 1 week, 100% of salary3 to 5 weeks, 100% of salary(two options)
Professional Liability Insurance****(CPMA not applicable): Yes (free)
Quebec Health Insurance Program / RAMQ***: Yes
Resident Coordinator: $583/month
Resuscitation courses and examination leave: Day of the course and of the exam, course paid
Sick leave: 9.6 days pd / yearAnd reimbursement of days not taken
Statutory and floating holidays: 13/year
Study leave: 10 days pd/year
Superior Financial Programs: Yes
Teaching Premium: $240/28 days
Wedding leave: 7 days paid + 7 days without pay

Call

Call (provincial max): 6 calls in an establishment per 28 days

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

FMRQ agreement, 1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2028.

Teaching sites

Centre mère-enfant (CME) du CHU de Québec (Québec)
Hôpital St-François-d'Assise (Québec)
IRDPQ (Institut de Réadaptation en Déficience Physique de Québec) (Québec)
Clinique pédiatrique Ste-Foy (Québec)
Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis (Lévis)
CISSS de la Gaspésie (rural or distributed site)
CISSS de Chaudière-Appalaches (rural or distributed site)
CISSS de Lanaudière (rural or distributed site)
CISSS du Bas St-Laurent (MRC de Rimouski-Neigette et MRC de Rivière-du-Loup) (rural or distributed site)
CSSS de Lac St-Jean Est (rural or distributed site)
Centre de pédopsychiatrie (CIUSS Capitale Nationale) (Québec)
SIAM (Services intégrés en Abus et Maltraitance, CIUSS Capitale Nationale) (Québec)
Maison Lémerveil Suzanne Vachon (Québec)

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.

Centre mère-enfant (CME) du CHU de Québec

Matched to Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 28,705 · 2026–2027: 29,528 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 296 · neonatology 56 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Hôpital St-François-d'Assise

Matched to Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise (Québec) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 16,696 · 2026–2027: 17,516 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 254 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis

Matched to Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis (Lévis) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 30,011 · 2026–2027: 31,265 Cumulative from 1 April to the end of period 5 of 13 (about 20 weeks) of each fiscal year. Not a yearly total: compare only the same period.
Licensed beds: physical health 208 · psychiatry 70 · geriatrics 20 · neonatology 8 Capacity on the facility’s permit (au permis), by bed type, as of the 1 Oct 2026 extraction. Not staffed or open beds, and not added up across bed types.

Sources and licences

Contient de l'information fournie par le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec et visée par CC BY 4.0. Données modifiées. (Contains information provided by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec under CC BY 4.0. Data modified.)

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.

“Processus d'admission / Documents à fournir” · the program’s heading on CaRMS

Program officeadministrators and coordinators

admission.postmd@fmed.ulaval.ca

Équipe Admission · Vice-décanat aux études médicales postdoctorales - Université Laval

Milène Kouassi
Agente de gestion des études
programmepediatrie@fmed.ulaval.ca
418-656-2234
Christine Racette
Adjointe à la direction de programme
christine.racette@fmed.ulaval.ca
418-525-4444 poste 47505

Program director

Dr(e) Pascale Gervais
Directrice du programme
pascale.gervais@fmed.ulaval.ca
418-525-4444 poste 47505

Per CaRMS. Staff change during the cycle, so check the CaRMS program page(opens in a new tab) before emailing.

Location

Québec, Quebec

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: −11.3 °C Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 4.2 km away
July average: 20.0 °C Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 4.2 km away
Snowfall: 298.9 cm a year Lauzon, 14.2 km away
Days below −20 °C: 20.6 days a year Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 4.2 km away

People

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

Population: 549,459 people up 3.3% from 2016
Official languages: English only 0.4% · French only 56.5% · English and French 42.7% · neither 0.4% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 8.5% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 2.3% · non-permanent residents: 2.5%
Indigenous identity: 1.8% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 78.6% · public transit 10.8% · walking or cycling 9.0% · other 1.6% Average commute: 19.5 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: $70,500 before tax $60,800 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: Québec, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 733,156 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.143 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: 2.4% October 2025 survey, Québec, Quebec (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $49,394 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Québec, Quebec, 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: 4.3% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Québec, Quebec (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: Good The employment outlook will be Good for specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine (NOC 31100) in the Capitale-Nationale 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.

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.

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