Canadian residencies
Public health and preventive medicine with family medicine
15Spots for Canadian gradsFirst-round spots in the 2026 match for grads of Canadian med schools.Source: CaRMS
spots for Canadian grads
3.75Spots per first-choice applicantA comparison between specialties, not anyone’s odds.Source: CaRMS
spots per person who ranked it first
88%Applications that got an interview, 2025Source: CaRMS
of 2025 applications got an interview offer
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Full breakdown
Compare two residenciesThe 2026 match
- Spots for Canadian grads
- 1515 spots for Canadian gradsFirst-round spots in the 2026 match set aside for grads of Canadian med schools. International grads have their own stream.Source: CaRMS
- Spots per person who ranked it first
- 3.753.75 spots per person who ranked it first1.00 or more: at least one spot for every person who put it first. It compares specialties. It isn’t anyone’s odds, because people rank several programs and programs rank people.Our math15 spots ÷ 3.75 = about 4 people ranked it first.Source: CaRMS
- Rank, 1 = hardest
- 31 of 3331 of 33, 1 = hardestOur mathAll 33 match streams sorted by spots per person who ranked it first, lowest first.Source: CaRMS
- People who ranked it first
- About 4About 4 ranked it firstCanadian grads who put it first on their rank list. CaRMS publishes the ratio, not the count, so this is our estimate.Our math15 spots ÷ 3.75 = 4. CaRMS rounds the ratio, so the real count is 4.Source: CaRMS
- Empty after the first round (all streams)
- 9Empty after the first round, all streamsSource: CaRMS
- Empty after both rounds (all streams)
- 11 spots still emptyEmpty after the first round: 9. Still empty after the second round: 1. Counts every stream, including international grads, so it is a bigger pool than the Canadian-grad spots.Source: CaRMS
- Applications offered an interview (2025 match)
- 88%88% of applications got an interviewIn the 2025 match, Canadian grads sent 83 applications to public health and preventive medicine with family medicine programs and 73 got an interview offer. Counts applications, not people: one person usually applies to several programs. 2026 is not published yet.Source: CaRMS
- Filled in round 1 + round 2 (all streams)
- 8 + 8Filled in each round, 2026First round: 8 of 17 spots filled. Second round: 8 of 9 filled, 1 left empty. All streams, including international grads.Source: CaRMS
- Ranked it first and had no residency after both rounds
- 1Ranked it first, no residencyCanadian grads only.Our math1 who took part in the second round and did not match + 0 who did not match in the first round and skipped the second = 1Source: CaRMS
CaRMS publishes the yearly first-choice share for the 10 most-ranked specialties only, so there is no trend here.
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