Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
McGill Radiology
2026 Match
What the research profiles of this year's 5 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance and notable activity, not just publication count.
Program Director: Dr. Karl Muchantef
5
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 5 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=5).
3.6
avg. confirmed publications
1.6
avg. first or second authored
0.4
avg. radiology relevant
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights*
File review
Interview
* Segments are equal width for display only. The program lists these components but does not state their weights.
What the program says it looks for
- Motivated, energetic and dependable candidates
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong clinical skills
- Research experience and academic potential
- Willingness to learn in dynamic hospital environments
- Selection draws on academic record, interview, personal letter, references and interest in radiology
Where research appears
Research and publications are judged in file review on quantity, quality, depth of involvement and interest in future projects, while scholarly activities are not evaluated at interview.
51 to 200
applicants per year
26 to 50%
interview invite rate
About 13 to 100 Estimate only
interviews per year
Estimate calculated as 51 applicants at a 26 percent invite rate to 200 applicants at a 50 percent invite rate. It is not an interview count stated by the program.
Inference, not the program's wording
The program does not publish exact weights, and research has no separate weight. It is judged in file review, where it may help with shortlisting since only 26 to 50 percent of applicants are invited, but it is not a scored interview component.
Gaps: The program page is marked as under revision, last approved September 22, 2025, so its text may change during the cycle, and no interview count or rank list size is stated.
Where this cohort came from
McGill University
Université de Montréal
All five residents in this cohort are Canadian medical graduates. Schools are shown as a set only and are not matched to the individual research profiles below, since with a cohort this small that pairing would make individuals identifiable.
Per resident breakdown
Radiology relevant
Adjacent specialty research
Other medical
0
adjacent specialty research
One confirmed paper, middle authored, on pediatric emergency care for concussion. It sits outside radiology, so it counts as other medical.
Notable: no presentations or other activity were found in public sources.
0
adjacent specialty research
Nine of ten papers are in ophthalmology, seven of them applying AI to diagnosis and clinical decision making, plus two case reports. The one radiology relevant paper is a second-authored musculoskeletal imaging article written for a young audience. The AI imaging work is the closest bridge to radiology's own research direction, but it is counted as other medical.
Additional items reported in the original research could not be independently confirmed and are excluded from the counts above.
Notable: contributed to a conference presentation of work that was later published as a full paper.
* Includes one paper published after match day.
0
adjacent specialty research
All six papers are in ophthalmology and four are first or second authored, spanning population health, glaucoma, AI prediction models, and a case report. One paper was published after match day, so it was most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.
Notable: presented work at a research day, including a featured talk and a poster, alongside several AI related projects.
No confirmed publications were found in public sources. Zero here does not mean none exist, only that none were located.
Notable: no presentations or other activity were found in public sources.
* Includes one paper published after match day.
0
adjacent specialty research
One confirmed paper, middle authored, testing a new embolization material in a preclinical interventional radiology study. It is experimental work rather than a review. It was published after match day, so it was most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.
Notable: no presentations or other activity were found in public sources.
Reading this data
Research output was uneven and mostly outside radiology. PGY1-B and PGY1-C account for 16 of the cohort's 18 confirmed papers, and 15 of those 16 are in ophthalmology, weighted toward AI applied to clinical imaging and decisions.
Only two papers in the whole cohort are radiology relevant, one interventional radiology study and one musculoskeletal imaging article, each from a different resident. In this cohort, radiology specific research was the exception rather than the norm. 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.
