CaRMS and Residency Programs'''the Basics

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CaRMS and Residency Programs...the Basics

• Residents Night
• April 27, 2006

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CaRMS

• CaRMS The Canadian Resident Matching Service
• How it works
• Students are interviewed for residency programs
• The students create a ranked list of their
  preferred residency programs

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CaRMS

• The residency programs also create a ranked list
  of the students they have interviewed
• The information is entered into a computer and
  residents are matched to the residency programs

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CaRMS

• There are two goals
• to get as many students as possible into their
  highest ranked residency program
• AND
• to have as many programs as possible get the
  students they ranked the highest after the
  interviews

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The Algorithm

• ALWAYS in favor of the student
• Choose your rank list in order of
• YOUR PREFERENCE!

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CaRMS

• There are two iterations of the match
• (NOTE in most provinces you must be a Canadian
  citizen or landed immigrant to obtain
  postgraduate medical training)
• First iteration Available to students graduating
  from Canadian medical schools
• (also students graduating from U.S. medical
  schools will be considered in the first iteration
  in some provinces)

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CaRMS

• Second iteration Available to former graduates
  of Canadian medical schools, U.S. students and
  graduates of medical schools in other countries
  (these are International Medical Graduates or
  IMGs)
• In addition, students who remain unmatched after
  the first iteration can apply to the second
  iteration

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CaRMS

• In 2005/2006, CaRMS is providing matching
  services to residency programs at 13 of the 16
  Canadian medical schools
• The three medical schools not participating are
  Université Laval, Université de Sherbrooke and
  Université de Montréal

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CaRMS

• The CaRMS website has a list of residency
  programs by specialty and what schools offer them
• Or you can look up a university and find out what
  residency programs are offered there
• Check out both of these under the Program
  Directory link on the CaRMS webpage
  (www.carms.ca)

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CaRMS

• Each residency program that uses the CaRMS
  matching service has individual requirements for
  selecting residents
• Details of what each program looks for when
  choosing its residents are in the individual
  program descriptions for each institution on the
  CaRMS website

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Additional Notes

• Apply in the fall
• Interviews in the winter
• Match Day (This year)
• 1st round February 22
• 2nd round April 3
• Applications for both first and second iterations
  are done on the web

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Additional Notes

• The Statistics link on the CaRMS website provides
  many stats, including information on the
  percentage of students that matched to their
  highest ranked residency program
• Salary information is also provided on the CaRMS
  website

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CFMS/CMF

• Recommended ratio of gradsplacements
• 1.0 1.2
• Actual ratio on MATCH DAY this year
• 1.0 lt1.1

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Stats

• Nationally, 75 of students got 1st or 2nd choice
• MUN is gt90 (unofficial)

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Length of Residency Programs

• 2 years
• Family medicine
• 3 or 4 years
• Internal medicine
• Pediatrics

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Length of Residency Programs

• 5 years
• Anesthesia
• Obstetrics/Gynecology
• Orthopedics
• Pathology
• Psychiatry
• Radiology
• 6 years
• Surgery

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TIPS

• Know the programs (www.carms.ca)
• Do an elective where you are interested
• Meet the Program Director, if possible
• Get GOOD references
• Publication, if possible
• DONT PANIC...

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Reference

• www.carms.ca