Quebec - CaRMS

Last updated July 9, 2024

Université Laval
Université de Sherbrooke
Université de Montréal
McGill University

2025 Cycle Information

Criteria applicable for all medical graduates; for specific information, please see tabs.

Please note that the criteria on this page is from the 2024 match. Updated 2025 provincial criteria will be posted on this page in the upcoming months, once it has been reviewed by the province.

Criteria for All Medical Graduates

CRITERIA FOR ALL MEDICAL GRADUATES
GENERAL INFORMATION	To be eligible in Quebec, candidates must hold a medical degree from a Canadian or US medical school, a DO degree from a school accredited by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation of the American Osteopathic Association or a degree from outside Canada or the United States (IMG). They must be in the second year of a family medicine residency or have passed the family medicine certification examination of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Applicants submitting an admission application must be able to demonstrate with official documentation that they have either: Completed their undergraduate medical education (Doctor of Medicine, M.D.); Been in a residency program; Practiced medicine independently, or Have successfully completed the CEDIS program, i.e. the evaluation-orientation mechanism and the clinical context and medical skills assessment internships. Within the four years preceding the admission application: Preference will be given to applicants who can demonstrate that they have had a sustained and continuous independent clinical practice for a minimum duration of one year within the four years preceding the request. Please note that observerships and telemedicine are not considered independent clinical practice.
LICENSING BODY	Collège des Médecins du Québec
SOURCE OF FUNDING	Positions are funded by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (unless otherwise specified). Some non-Ministry of Health positions may be available with another funding source; they are identified as such.
TRAINING LEVEL ELIGIBILITY	Subspecialty: Enhanced skills Training level: Current Canadian Family Medicine training Eligibility details: Contingent régulier (Regular quota) Current residents, R2s (year 2), registered in Family Medicine Training Programs in Québec AND/OR Have completed Family Medicine Training Programs in Québec in the Contingent régulier. Contingent particulier (Particular quota): Current residents, R2s (Year 2), registered in Family Medicine Training Programs, outside Quebec AND/OR Current residents, R2s (Year 2), registered in Family Medicine Training Programs, in Québec, in contingent particulier positions. AND/OR Residents who have completed Family Medicine in Québec and were in the contingent particulier positions AND/OR Residents who have completed Family Medicine in another province. Subspecialty: Enhanced skills Training level: Current US Family Medicine training Eligibility details: Contingent particulier (Particular quota): Current residents, R2s (Year 2), registered in Family Medicine Training Programs, in the United States AND/OR Residents who have completed Family Medicine in the United States. Candidates must be able to start their training at the latest on June 2, 2025.
RESTRICTIONS	For NON MOH (non-Ministry of Health funded positions), candidates who obtained their MD in Québec and who have completed or currently completing residency training in Québec (whether in the contingent régulier or the contingent particulier) are not eligible. The following candidates are not eligible to apply under this stream: Candidates who obtained their MD in Québec and who have completed or currently completing residency training in Québec. Applicants from the Canadian Armed Forces. Trainees admitted in an Enhanced skills program in Québec are not eligible to apply to the Match to change programs.
MATCH STREAMS	Positions in the contingent régulier are available to residents already training (or who have previously trained) in Quebec in the contingent régulier. Positions in the contingent particulier are available to residents already training (or who have previously trained) in Quebec in the contingent particulier or currently training or having trained in other provinces or the United States. When equivalent applications are reviewed In the admissions process of a given program at a given faculty, applicants who are graduates of a Québec medical school and/or who have a marked interest for medical practice in Québec at the end of their training will take precedence in the selection for “contingent particulier” positions. Non-ministry funded positions: positions can be offered to candidates who obtained their MD from a Canadian Medical School outside Québec and to candidates who are currently completing residency training in Family Medicine outside Québec. Not eligible for the Non MOH stream: Candidates who obtained their MD in Québec and who have completed or currently completing residency training in Québec. Matched candidates enter the program at the R-3 level.
CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS	See the Summary of citizenship requirements.
PROOF OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY	See the Summary of language proficiency requirements.

Additional Criteria for CMGs

ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR CANADIAN MEDICAL GRADUATES
MEDICAL COUNCIL OF CANADA EXAMS	There are no provincial MCC Examination requirements.
RETURN OF SERVICE (ROS) REQUIREMENTS	There are no provincial ROS requirements.
MEDICAL EDUCATION	MD degree required
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION	N/A

Additional Criteria for IMGs

ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES
MEDICAL COUNCIL OF CANADA EXAMS	If an IMG is already training in Canada or in the United States, there is no additional requirements for this match.
RETURN OF SERVICE (ROS) REQUIREMENTS	There are no provincial ROS requirements.
MEDICAL EDUCATION	Recognition of the equivalency of the MD degree is not required for IMGs already training in Canada/United States. To apply, IMGs must be currently registered in a Québec Medical School in the contingent régulier or the contingent particulier or in another Faculty of Medicine in Canada or the United States.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION	N/A