Dalhousie Plastic Surgery 2026 Match
Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile

Dalhousie Plastic Surgery
2026 Match

What the research profile of this year's incoming resident actually looks like, by authorship, specialty relevance, and notable activity, not just publication count.

Program Director: Dr. David Tang

1
spot filled this match cycle, unchanged from 1 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=1).
3
confirmed publications
1
first or second authored
3
other medical
Program context

Source: CaRMS program descriptions

Selection weights

Selection weights not published

What the program says it looks for
  • An excellent academic record
  • Hard work and work experience that shows grit
  • Broad exposure to plastic surgery
  • Completed research projects
  • Strong clerkship references
  • A standardised, objective ranking after interview
Where research appears

File review assesses research that leads to a presentation or publication, though plastic surgery specific research is not required, and the interview assesses understanding of the scientific process.

0 to 50
applicants per year
0 to 25%
interview invite rate
15 to 18 Program stated
interviews per year
Inference, not the program's wording

The program does not publish exact weights, and research has no separate weight. It appears in file review and at interview within broader assessments, so it can affect shortlisting and final ranking, but no research share can be assigned.

Gaps: These figures cover the CMG stream, the program also notes 40 to 60 applications per year over the past four years, and it does not publish selection weights.

Where this cohort came from
Dalhousie University

This cohort is a single resident, so the school shown describes that resident. The profile below is kept generalized for that reason.

Per resident breakdown
Other medical
PGY1-A
CMG
3
confirmed pubs
1
first or second author
3
other medical
Three confirmed publications, all original oncology research, in Current Oncology, Frontiers in Immunology and Translational Oncology. They sit outside plastic surgery, so all three count as other medical. One is co-first authored, which counts as first authorship.
Notable: no presentations or activities were found.
Reading this data

The incoming resident matched with three confirmed publications, none of them in plastic surgery, and one of them first authored. A single profile is one data point, not a benchmark for the program.

With a cohort this small, the pattern across the class is the pattern of one record. Program weightings may change from year to year.

All data on this page was gathered from publicly available sources and verified to a high but not absolute degree of confidence. This profile is intended to give prospective applicants a general sense of what previously matched residents looked like, not to serve as a definitive or exhaustive record.

Methodology: Identities were used privately to look up and verify publication records, then discarded; the resident is labeled PGY1-A and is not otherwise identifiable. Confirmed counts reflect items matched against a publication record. Preprints and conference abstracts are excluded from counts, and papers dated after match day are included and flagged. Sample size is n=1 from a single program year, so these counts should be read as illustrative of profile shape rather than a statistically robust comparison.

Residency Match Canada, independent residency data, not affiliated with CaRMS or Dalhousie University.