Tips to Match Into a Top Canadian Residency Program

Are you interested to pursue a residency in Canada? Well, it is a challenging task and needs a lot of hard work and preparation to find a match. In this blog, you will get some important tips on how you can successfully match into a top Canadian medical residency program.

In Canada, there are presently approximately 13000 doctors who are not working and trying to get into a residency programme. That is a huge number so of course the competition is tough.

Canada has estimated that they will be short of approximately 44000 doctors by 2028. This is a piece of good news for IMGs. In Canada overall approximately 25% i.e. one in four doctors are IMGs. But there is a huge problem that IMGs can only apply to 300-400 seats every year through CARMS matching which is of course very low. And on top of it, 80% of IMGs do not match.

If we compare this with Canadian Medical Graduates only less than 5% of them do not match into the residency program so that means if you are an IMG you have to work really hard.