December 2025
Program directors and administrators for newly participating programs may log into CaRMS Online and start updating their program descriptions. Program descriptions must be finalized and submitted to the PGME office for review by the “Program descriptions sent to PGME office for approval for particular stream programs in Québec” deadline.
Program directors and administrators for newly participating programs must submit their program descriptions to their postgraduate offices for review and approval by 12:00 ET on this date.
January 2026
Applicants may begin the application process, including sending reference requests through CaRMS Online.
Applicants may begin the application process.
Applicants who participated in a previous match can log into their CaRMS Online account using their existing username and password to participate in the match. Anyone who has forgotten their username or password can click on the ‘Forgot your username or password’ option on the CaRMS Online login page.
Program descriptions for all new programs entering the second iteration should be approved and available on carms.ca for applicants to review. Once program descriptions are approved, they are immediately available on carms.ca for applicants to consult.
February 2026
Applicants who would like for their MSPR’s or reference document(s) to be translated using our translation service should make the request through CaRMS Online by today.
Every effort will be made to complete translations submitted by this date prior to the opening of file review, but due to the compressed second iteration timeline we cannot guarantee translations will be in applicant accounts and ready to assign to programs before file review.
March 2026
Unmatched applicants from the first iteration may log into CaRMS Online and participate in the second iteration.
If you were a program administrator or director for a previous CaRMS match or match iteration, you can log into CaRMS Online using your existing username and password. If you have forgotten your username or password, click on the ‘Forgot your username or password’ option on the CaRMS Online login page.
If you are a new program director or administrator for this match and have not received an email, please contact your PGME office.
Program directors and administrators with unfilled programs from the first iteration may log into CaRMS Online and update their program descriptions for the second iteration.
Program descriptions for all unfilled programs from the first iteration of the match should be approved and available on carms.ca for applicants to review. Once program descriptions are approved, they are immediately available on carms.ca for applicants to consult.
Applicants can start selecting the programs to which they wish to apply and assigning requested documents.
Medical School Performance Records (MSPRs) and transcripts should arrive by today to guarantee they will be uploaded into applicant accounts before the opening of file review. Applicants can verify whether documents have been received through the Document Tracking section in CaRMS Online.
It is the applicant’s responsibility to follow university procedures to ensure their medical school transcript and MSPR are sent directly to CaRMS.
Program directors and administrators can add or remove file reviewers for their program(s) and create filters in preparation for file review.
Once file reviewers have been added, they will receive an email from CaRMS with instructions on how to create an account in CaRMS Online.
Applications will be available for review when file review opens.
References must be submitted by this date to give applicants enough time to assign them to programs before the opening of file review.
Referees can submit references after this date and time; however, this may impact the time available for applicants to submit complete applications to programs prior to the opening of file review on March 17 at 12:00 ET.
If applicants would like their references to be translated by the CaRMS-facilitated translation service, they must be submitted before the translation request deadline of February 20 at 17:00 ET.
Referees must submit references through the CaRMS Online referee portal by this date to give applicants enough time to include reference materials within their applications to programs before the opening of file review.
Referees can submit references after this date and time; however, this may impact the time available for applicants to submit complete applications to programs prior to the opening of file review.
If applicants would like their references to be translated by the CaRMS-facilitated translation service, they must be submitted before the translation request deadline.
Applicant photos are now available to view. Photos are not available prior to this date.
Programs now have access to all submitted applications and documents.
Discussions regarding reversion options should begin now to ensure final reversion instructions are submitted by the PGME approval deadline for ranking, quota and reversions. Draft reversions should be sent to CaRMS two days prior to the PGME approval deadline to ensure final reversion instructions are reviewed and understood by CaRMS.
Applicants and programs may begin creating their rank order lists in CaRMS Online.
Applicants and programs may begin creating their rank order lists in CaRMS Online.
Once a program rank order list has been submitted, postgraduate offices can begin approving them in CaRMS Online. Postgraduate offices can also begin approving quota and submitting reversion instructions starting today.
Programs must submit their rank order lists through CaRMS Online by 14:00 ET. If programs do not submit by today, postgraduate offices can submit on their behalf.
April 2026
Postgraduate offices must approve rank order lists and quota, as well as upload finalized reversion instructions in CaRMS Online by this deadline.
Applicants must submit their rank order list through CaRMS Online by 15:00 ET. This deadline is firm – no rank order lists can be submitted after this time.
Match results are available through CaRMS Online.
May 2026
This is the last day to access information in your CaRMS Online account for this match. You will no longer have access to the information in your application after this date.
This is the last day to access information in your CaRMS Online account for this match.
Applicants will no longer have access to the information in their application after this date.
Programs should download and save any match-related files before this date. Matched applicant files can only be retrieved from postgraduate offices once CaRMS Online closes.
