Why choose University of Ottawa for your Postgraduate Medical Education Training!

• Excellent training opportunities: We offer more than 75 training programs that provide innovative clinical experiences through a variety of educational strategies that guide our trainees into well-rounded clinicians. New residency and fellowship training programs are continually being implemented with our partner hospitals as we collaboratively enhance patient care.
• Leading health care settings: Our residents and fellows complete their medical training in our affiliated academic health science centres, including The Ottawa Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Hôpital Montfort, The Royal and Bruyère Continuing Care, as well as hospitals in rural communities in Eastern and Northern Ontario. Additionally, we have one of the largest medical simulation facilities in North America, the University of Ottawa Skills and Simulations Centre.
• Training in a Francophone milieu: Training in French is offered by many programs through our partnership with L’Hôpital Montfort. Furthermore, we offer unique training opportunities with our international partner, L’Université de Lyon in France.
• Specialties, subspecialties, and Area of Focused Competence (AFC) programs: We offer 29 specialty and 37 subspecialty programs that lead to certification by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as well as core Family Medicine and 7 Enhanced Skills programs leading to certification by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. In addition, uOttawa offers 9 AFC programs that provide advanced post-residency training accredited by the Royal College. These AFCs build on broader disciplines to expand and deepen the scope of clinical practice.
• Fellowships and Clinician Investigator Program (CIP): We offer many fellowship opportunities and accept over 150 foreign trainees annually who bring a wide range of skills and cultural diversity that serve to enrich our programs and Faculty. Our CIP allows residents to complete either a Masters or PhD while conducting research and providing health care.

Our Mission 

To expand our global leadership in a dynamic environment through interdisciplinary innovation in education, research, health of populations, and patient-partnered care, in both official languages. Together, we strive to push the boundaries of medical education and patient care, in alignment with the Faculty of Medicine’s strategic vision: “Leading innovation for a healthier world.”

Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellowship-University of Ottawa Heart Institute The University of Ottawa Heart Institute offers a dynamic and comprehensive 1 year clinical cardiac anesthesiology fellowship. We enjoy a strong national reputation with our former fellows integrated across all academic cardiac anesthesiology practices in Canada and many abroad.

The University of Ottawa Heart Institute is one of Canada’s largest cardiac centers. With over 1700 yearly cardiac surgical cases, the largest TAVI volume in Canada, an expanding structural cardiology program, and an active MCS and cardiac transplantation program, and a 26 unit cardiac surgical ICU, we are well suited to meet all of your academic fellowship needs. Patient care and clinical teaching remains the predominant strength of our program. With dedicated medical educators and some of the most advanced medical imaging and surgical technologies available, we are well equipped to keep pace with the rapid expansion of cardiac care in the next decade.

In 2025 and beyond, we will continue to support the expansion of percutaneous interventional procedures, expansion minimally invasive surgical techniques including robotic surgeries, as well as greater use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in complex cardiac care. Our structural cardiology program continues to evolve beyond our current aortic and mitral interventions, we remain committed to providing advanced imaging using real time 3D echo guidance to support its expansion. In addition, there is a clear institutional focus on minimally invasive surgery for both coronary and valvular disease which includes an expanding robotic assisted surgical program. Finally, in keeping with the trends observed in other large tertiary cardiac care centres, we are anticipating an overall expansion our MCS and ECMO programs to keep pace with evolving complex cardiac care. These three specific areas will become the future focus of complex tertiary cardiac care and we currently have the technology, knowledge and expertise which allows our fellowship to evolve with these changes well beyond the next decade. While clinical care is our strength, research remains an integral component of our academic mission. We currently enjoy ongoing research collaborations with several of our former fellows. Ongoing research areas includes postoperative AFib prevention strategies, long term critical care morbidity and quality of life measures, predictors of RV failure. Although publication is not a requirement of the fellowship, all fellows are expected to complete a QA project during their fellowship year at UOHI.

Salary support is provided by the Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology in in the amount of $100,000 CDN dollars per year. Eligible applicants must have completed a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada accredited residency in Anesthesiology or completed accredited anesthesiology training in an approved jurisdiction as defined by the Royal College. Eligible applicants are asked to submit a CV, letter of intent and 3 reference letters via the University of Ottawa Post Graduate Medical Education Website portal. Questions and enquiries can be directed to the fellowship coordinator Dr. Sean Dickie via email. [email protected]

Additional details regarding this fellowship can be found at the following link: Cardiac Anesthesiology - DAPM | Faculty of Medicine

In order to be admissible for a fellowship position, you must meet the following criteria:

• Have a medical degree from an accredited institution listed in the World Directory of Medical School confirming school is recognized in Canada (Sponsor Notes tab);
• Have successfully completed a specialty program before the beginning of the fellowship;
• Be certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) or another recognized international certification board (organization outside of Canada and the United States that certifies medical specialists), or at a minimum, have completed a residency program and be admissible to take the Royal College, CFPC or USA certification exams;
• Have successfully completed an English proficiency test, if applicable. See requirements below.

Language Requirements:

Must provide proof of English language proficiency through ONE of the following:

• International English Language Testing System (IELTS)-Academic with a minimum score of 7 in each component, OR;
• TOEFL-iBT; passing score of 93, including a minimum score of 24 on the speaking section, OR;
• Occupational English Test (OET)-Medicine with a minimum grade of B in each component, OR;
• Candidates for whom their primary and secondary, medical school or specialty education was conducted in English, proof must be attached to application, OR;
• World Directory of Medical Schools Language Option – If the instruction and the language of patient care at the undergraduate medical school was conducted completely in English, then a candidate can submit a copy or printout of the World Directory of Medical Schools website (Program Details tab) listing the medical school which clearly states that the language of instruction is English.

Applicants must be able to communicate proficiently in the language of instruction and patient care of the training site.

Note that you may apply only to a Clinical Fellowship in the same discipline (or subdiscipline) in which you are recognized as a specialist.

Applicants must be eligible for a CPSO independent practice license to qualify.