Sherbrooke - General Surgery

Université de SherbrookeSherbrooke, QuebecRegular stream

CaRMS program description, 2027 match, last approved 9 Sep 2026 · See the 2026 version

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Positions (approx. quota): 5 positions
Length: 5 years
Stream: Regular
Discipline: General Surgery
Applications per year: 51–200
Applicants offered interviews: 51–75%
Accreditation: Accredited
CaRMS program ID: 36217

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

Summary

This is a five-year French-language general surgery residency based at Santé Québec Estrie-CHUS (Fleurimont and Hôtel-Dieu) in Sherbrooke, with 18 residents.
All residents must complete a research project and a quality-of-care evaluation project, and ATLS and ACLS are required in first year.

Training

Setting

Academic / tertiary hospital
Regional community

Sites

5 teaching sites

Santé-Québec Estrie - CHUS | Hôpitaux Fleurimont et Hôtel-Dieu
Centre Hospitalier Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska
Hôpital de Chicoutimi

Show all 5

Hôpital Sainte-Croix
Centre Hospitalier Charles-Le Moyne

Distributed across a region

Rural exposure

Not stated on CaRMS page

Research

Required · research project · protected time

Training language

French

Highlights

Longitudinal program of formative written and oral exams structures study throughout residency.
Academic rounds follow a three-year cyclical plan covering core general surgery topics.

By year

PGY-1

Chirurgie générale8
Recherche1
Dissection anatomique et technique chirurgicale1
Chirurgie thoracique1
Soins intensifs chirurgicaux2

PGY-2

Chirurgie généraledont 3 au Centre hospitalier Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska11
Soins intensifs chirurgicaux1
Clinique externe/Recherche1

PGY-3

Chirurgie généraledont 2-3 périodes à l'hôpital de Chicoutimi7
Endoscopie digestive1
Recherche1
Radiologie1
Choix entre clinique externe ou chirurgie thoracique à ChicoutimiChicoutimi1
Chirurgie vasculaire2

PGY-4

Chirurgie généraledont 2 périodes en milieu délocalisé5
Chirurgie vasculaire1-2
Endoscopie digestive1
Stages à option3
Pathologie0-1
Clinique externe1
Oncologie1

PGY-5

Chirurgie générale9
Clinique externe1
Endoscopie1
Stage d'intégration des apprentissages2

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.

Applications per year

51–200

Applicants offered interviews

51–75%

Interviews

Dates (2027 match)

26 Jan 2027

Mode

Virtual

Format

MMI or rotating station

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
PGY-5	$83,050 / year

One provincial scale for Quebec, 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)

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

Santé-Québec Estrie - CHUS | Hôpitaux Fleurimont et Hôtel-Dieu (Sherbrooke)
Centre Hospitalier Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska (Victoriaville · rural or distributed site)
Hôpital de Chicoutimi (Chicoutimi · rural or distributed site)
Hôpital Sainte-Croix (Drummondville · rural or distributed site)
Centre Hospitalier Charles-Le Moyne (Greenfield Park · rural or distributed site)

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 Hospitalier Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska

Matched to Hôtel-Dieu d'Arthabaska (Victoriaville) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 15,564 · 2026–2027: no row in the file 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 151 · psychiatry 24 · geriatrics 24 · neonatology 4 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 de Chicoutimi

Matched to Hôpital de Chicoutimi (Saguenay) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 20,522 · 2026–2027: 21,228 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 311 · psychiatry 57 · neonatology 19 · hôtellerie 21 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 Sainte-Croix

Matched to Hôpital Sainte-Croix (Drummondville) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 17,461 · 2026–2027: no row in the file 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 154 · psychiatry 25 · geriatrics 18 · neonatology 4 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.

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Centre Hospitalier Charles-Le Moyne

Matched to Hôpital Charles-le Moyne (Longueuil) in the province’s hospital list.

Emergency visits: 2025–2026: 30,073 · 2026–2027: 30,629 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 571 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.

Program officeadministrators and coordinators

Programme de chirurgie

chirurgieprogramme-fmss@usherbrooke.ca

Sylvie Lanteigne · Secrétaire de direction

(819) 821-8000, poste 73013

Program director

Dr(e) Jessika Hétu

CaRMS lists no email for the director.

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

Location

Sherbrooke, 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: −9.5 °C Lennoxville, 9.1 km away
July average: 19.7 °C Lennoxville, 9.1 km away
Snowfall: 290.6 cm a year Coaticook, 28.5 km away
Days below −20 °C: 23.1 days a year Lennoxville, 9.1 km away

People

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

Population: 172,950 people up 7.2% from 2016
Official languages: English only 1.7% · French only 51.6% · English and French 46.1% · neither 0.7% Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. This is not the language spoken at home.
Immigrants: 8.8% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 2.4% · non-permanent residents: 2.2%
Indigenous identity: 1.7% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 87.3% · public transit 4.9% · walking or cycling 6.4% · other 1.4% Average commute: 18.3 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: $62,400 before tax $55,200 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: Sherbrooke, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 151,157 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.156 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: 2.7% October 2025 survey, Sherbrooke, Quebec (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living: $47,414 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Quebec, population 100,000 to 499,999, 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: 4.0% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Sherbrooke, Quebec (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.6 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: Moderate The employment outlook will be Moderate for specialists in surgery (NOC 31101) in the Estrie 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.