Applicants are encouraged to write a different targeted personal letter for each track they want to apply to, especially for the applicants who want to apply to the Vancouver Island and Prince George tracks. This will help the Program understand the reasons for applying to specific tracks.

CVs or resumes are optional as the CaRMS application forms include all necessary fields that would be present on a CV (e.g. work experience, research experience, interest, etc.).

Our Selections Committee will only review the first three reference letters that you submit due to time constraints.

Yes, please upload a copy your Masters transcript to your CaRMS application.  Our reviewers will take this into account when reviewing your file.

We do not give preference to students who are graduates of UBC when creating our rank lists. Every applicant will be scored in a standardized fashion.

Candidates who are shortlisted for the Vancouver, Fraser, and/or Vancouver Island tracks will have one set of standard interviews (Program Director Interview, Mini Interview, and Panel Interview). When interviewing and ranking the candidates, our Selections Committee will keep in mind the tracks to which they have applied.

Candidates who are shortlisted for the Research and/or Prince George tracks, will have an additional interview for each track.

Yes, candidates are able to apply for additional tracks (except for Prince George and Research tracks) after your interview date, and up to at least 1 to 1.5 weeks before the ranking list submission deadline.

All shortlisted candidates who applied multiple streams/tracks will compete all their interviews on the same day.

For the 2024 CaRMS match, the British Columbia Ministry of Health are funding new residency positions in what they have termed, the “Competitive Stream”. Application to these positions are open to both Canadian Medical Graduates (CMG’s) and International Medical Graduates (IMG’s) and this stream will be a separate track which would be ranked just like the other tracks in our program.  The positions in this stream will require a 3 year Return of Service (ROS), but this ROS can be anywhere in the province, either urban or rural including in greater Vancouver, and can be in any sort of clinical practice of interest to the resident.

At UBC, there are 5 Competitive Stream positions which are distributed amoungst the tracks as follows:

Vancouver Track – 1 position
Fraser Track – 2 positions
Vancouver Island Track – 1 position
Interior Track – 1 position