Postgraduate Medical Education

Advanced clinical training for residents is available through Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine. The Postgraduate Medical Education Office coordinates the activities of all specialty training programs.

The Faculty of Medicine fosters the art and the science of medicine emphasizing both scientific excellence and humanity in medicine. It has developed a unique and comprehensive program that enables students to become excellent clinicians, compassionate care providers, and skilled communicators. Faculty members have world-recognized clinical and research expertise, and the school is home to some of Canada's top investigators and clinicians.

Dalhousie's Family Medicine program reaches well beyond its home base of Halifax. There are also training sites providing the full two-year family medicine curriculum in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Fredericton, Moncton, and Saint John, New Brunswick. Electives and community family medicine rotations are available with preceptors throughout the Maritime Provinces.

Canadian Resident Matching Service

The Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) is a not-for-profit organization that works closely with medical schools and students to provide a match for entry into postgraduate medical training. CaRMS uses an electronic application service and a computer match for entry into post graduate medical training within Canada. This service allows graduates to identify their top choices of residency training programs. These choices are then compared with the ranking of applicants by universities across Canada and a match is made.

CaRMS allows applicants to decide where they would like to train and allows for program directors to select applicants they would like to enroll in post graduate medical training. According to the CaRMS, it "relies on strict policies to ensure all processes and procedures translate its values of transparency, fairness and equity."