Last updated July 9, 2024

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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 APPLICABLE TO ALL MEDICAL GRADUATES

GENERAL INFORMATION To be eligible in Quebec, candidates must hold an MD degree from a Faculty of Medicine in Canada or the United States or hold a degree from outside Canada or the United States (IMG). They must be registered in the third year of an Internal Medicine residency in a Canadian or American Faculty of Medicine (except when applying for the Critical Care program for which residents In their fourth or fifth year may be considered). Furthermore, since 2022, Quebec’s faculties of medicine may consider applications from the following candidates:

  • R5 in hematology in other provinces who wish to train for a sixth year in medical oncology in Quebec in order to get a double certification.
  • R5 in medical oncology in other provinces who wish to train for a sixth year in hematology in Quebec in order to get a double certification.
  • R5 in microbiology or in infectious diseases in other provinces who wish to train for a sixth year to get double certification (the candidate must apply to Adult Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology).
  • Doctors currently in practice who will have been practising for at least 12 months when entering subspecialty training.

Faculties cannot commit to offering a spot to a candidate who does not complete the match process. Thus, unmatched candidates in the first iteration have to participate in the second iteration and have to submit a rank order list each time.

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 Unless otherwise specified, all positions are funded by Quebec’s ministry of Health and Social services. Some residency positions (moniteurs cliniques) with a different source of funding source may be offered and are identified as Non-MOH positions.
TRAINING LEVEL ELIGIBILITY Subspecialty: Medicine subspecialties

Training level: Current resident

Eligibility details:

  • Registered in 3rd year in Internal Medicine in a Canadian or an American Faculty of medicine.
  • Contingent régulier(Regular quota): positions reserved for residents currently in the continent régulier in Quebec.
  • Contingent particulier(Particular quota): positions reserved for candidates from outside Quebec or who are already in the contingent particulier in Quebec.
  • Exception: Medical oncology, Hematology, and Adult Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology may consider applications from residents who are currently in their fifth year of training. (see General Information above).
  • Doctors currently in practice who will have been practising for at least 12 months when entering subspecialty training may also be considered.

Subspecialty: Adult Critical Care Medicine

Training level: Current resident

Eligibility details:

  • Registered in 3rd, 4th or 5th year in Internal Medicine or in another program leading up to Intensive Care.
  • Contingent régulier(Regular quota): positions reserved for residents currently (or, for intensive care, having been previously) in the continent régulier in Quebec;
  • Contingent Particulier(Particular quota): positions reserved for candidates from outside Quebec or who are already (or, for intensive care, having been previously) in the contingent particulier in Quebec.
  • Doctors currently in practice who will have been practising at least 12 months when entering subspecialty training may also be considered.

Subspecialty: Geriatric psychiatry

Training level: Current resident

Eligibility details:

    • Registered in 4th year in psychiatry in a Canadian or an American Faculty of medicine.
    • Contingent régulier(Regular quota): positions reserved for residents currently in the continent régulier in Quebec.
    • Contingent particulier (Particular quota): positions reserved for candidates from outside Quebec or who are already in the contingent particulier in Quebec. 

Subspecialty: Forensic psychiatry

Training level: Current resident

Eligibility details:

  • Registered in 4th year in psychiatry in a Canadian or an American Faculty of medicine.
  • Contingent régulier(Regular quota): positions reserved for residents currently in the continent régulier in Quebec.
  • Contingent particulier(Particular quota): positions reserved for candidates from outside Quebec or who are already in the contingent particulier in Quebec.

Subspecialty: Thoracic surgery​

Training level: Current resident

Eligibility details:

  • Residents being trained or having been trained in general surgery, cardiac surgery and also in respirology, ENT and radiooncologu on a Canadian or American Faculty.
    • Contingent régulier(Regular quota): positions reserved for residents currently in the continent régulier in Quebec.
    • Contingent particulier(Particular quota): positions reserved for candidates from outside Quebec or who are already in the contingent particulier in Quebec.

Candidates who are unable to start their R-4 on July 1 are eligible provided they can start their training by no later than the last period of the academic year for which they are applying June 2, 2025.

For residents currently training in Quebec: Only residents from the core program in internal medicine whose training is out of phase by seven or more periods at the deadline for the submission and assignment of applications and documents may be exceptionally authorized to switch to a later cohort. Residents in this situation who wish to take advantage of this possibility must present a written request to their Faculty’s office of Postgraduate Medical Education. The request to switch cohorts must be approved by the Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education and is irreversible.

RESTRICTIONS
  • For non-MOH positions, candidates who have a MD degree from a Quebec university or candidates who have already been in residence in Quebec in the contigent régulier or the contingent particulier are not eligible.
  • Residents already admitted to a medical specialty in Quebec cannot use the Match to seek a program change. They must apply through the regular program change request process
  • Candidates from the Canadian Armed Forces are not eligible.
MATCH STREAMS
  • Contingent régulier(Regular quota): positions reserved for residents currently in the contingent régulier in Quebec. For critical care, candidates who were previously in the contingent régulier may be considered.
  • Contingent particulier(Particular quota): positions reserved for candidates applying from outside Quebec R3 in Internal medicine or (R6 in certain specialties, see above) or who are already in the contingent particulier in Quebec. For critical care, candidates who were previously in the contingent particulier may be considered. Doctors currently in practice who will have been practising at least 12 months when entering subspecialty training may also be considered. 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-MOH positions are only for candidates who have not already been in residence in Quebec in the contingent régulier or the contingent particulier and who do not have an MD degree from a Quebec university. Positions are available to residents currently registered in Internal Medicine in a Canadian Medical School outside of Québec or in an American Medical School.
  • All candidates will be matched at the R-4 level (except for the Critical Care program) or R-6 in certain cases (see above).
CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS See Summary of citizenship requirements.
PROOF OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY  See Summary of language proficiency requirements.

SECOND ITERATION

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL MEDICAL GRADUATES
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ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR CANADIAN MEDICAL GRADUATES

MEDICAL COUNCIL OF CANADA EXAMS There are no MCC examination provincial requirements.
RETURN OF SERVICE (ROS) REQUIREMENTS N/A
MEDICAL EDUCATION MD diploma required
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Eligibility conditions for matching in Critical Care

  1. Residents authorized to apply for admission via CaRMS, in the regular stream of the Critical Care Program, must be registered in a Quebec Faculty of Medicine and must have completed level R3 of the programs that give access to the intensive care program within the required timeframe, based on CRMCC guidelines.
  2. Residents in the internal medicine program registered in a Quebec Faculty of Medicine who wish to begin their Critical Care residency in a new Medical School will be transferred to this new Faculty.
  3. Residents registered in specialties other than Internal Medicine who have not completed their basic specialty will remain registered in their home faculty but must provide a letter from the Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education at their home Faculty and from the Director of the basic program, attesting that they have been released to complete their training for the Critical Care Program in the new Faculty to which they have been matched.

 CRITERIA FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES

MEDICAL COUNCIL OF CANADA EXAMS If an IMG is already training in Canada or in the United States, there are no MCC examination requirements for this match.

No other IMG will be considered in this match (except for non-MOH positions).

RETURN OF SERVICE (ROS) REQUIREMENTS N/A
MEDICAL EDUCATION Recognition of the equivalency of the MD degree is not required for IMG already training in Canada/US.

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
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL MEDICAL GRADUATES
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