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Medical Education, Licensing & Career Resources: CARMS

CARMS

CaRMS - The Canadian Resident Matching Service is a not-for-profit organization that works in close cooperation with the medical education community, medical schools and residents/students, to provide an electronic application service and a computer match for entry into postgraduate medical training throughout Canada.

CaRMS provides an orderly and transparent way for applicants to decide where to train and for program directors to decide which applicants they wish to enroll in postgraduate medical training.

To this date, CaRMS administers the matching process for: postgraduate Year 1 entry (R-1) residency positions; Year 3 Family Medicine - Emergency Medicine residency positions; Medicine subspecialty residency positions; Pediatric subspecialty residency positions; as well as the Canadian access to the US electronic application system for postgraduate medical training (ERAS).