What the research profiles of this year's 10 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, authorship, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Two residents account for 14 of the 25 confirmed publications, so the median of 1.5 is a better gauge of a typical profile than the average. Two residents had no publications found, and 3 of 10 have any EM relevant work.
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- Interest and insight into emergency medicine, including academic and specialist paths
- Experience or interest in education, administration, leadership, teaching or research
- Ability to work well with others and lead a team when needed
- Teaching and problem solving skills, self assessment and reflection
- A teachable growth mindset and the ability to cope with a busy residency
- Integration with current residents and faculty, and professional behavior
Where research appears
In file review, research is assessed through the CV and personal letter alongside leadership and community involvement, and scholarly activities are judged at interview by experience and interest in scholarship.
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 one component of file review and one interview component, and final ranking considers both application and interview, so it can affect shortlisting and ranking.
Gaps: The IMG stream also uses MCCQE1 and NAC OSCE scores as a preliminary screen, and the page states no interview count or rank list size.
Of the 10 residents, 8 are Canadian medical graduates and 2 are International Medical Graduates. Schools are shown as a set only and are not matched to the individual profiles below.
Six publications, all in other medical fields, with 2 in a first author position. One first-authored paper comes from graduate work completed before medical school. The rest are middle author contributions to large collaborative papers, which carry less weight, and there is no EM specific research.
Notable: graduate training before medicine, along with science policy and advocacy work that includes leadership and advisory roles and public writing.
One non-medical piece was excluded from the counts.
* Includes 1 paper published after match day.
Two publications, both in other medical fields, one first authored and one middle authored. The first-authored review was published after the match, so it was most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication at the time of the match, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.
Notable: presented research at a national meeting, and held an executive content leadership role with a student run education group.
Three publications, two of them directly EM, with 2 in a first or second author position. The EM relevant work leans toward health services and operations research rather than bedside clinical work. The third paper sits outside EM and reflects an earlier academic background.
Notable: undergraduate academic honours before medicine.
No publications could be identified in public sources.
Notable: no presentations, leadership roles, awards or teaching activity could be identified in public sources.
Zero confirmed publications does not mean none exist. It only means none were found in public sources.
Several items found under a matching name belong to an unrelated, older individual and were excluded as not attributable to this resident.
One middle author publication, published before the match. It sits in other medical fields and is not EM specific.
Notable: none identified in public sources.
Research in an unrelated field found under a matching name belongs to a different person and was excluded.
Three publications centred on evidence synthesis and research methods, all in other medical fields, with 1 in a co-first author position. There is no EM specific work.
Notable: prior health sciences degree, contributions to an evidence synthesis team, and creative contributions to a hospital fundraising initiative.
One middle author retrospective chart review that is directly relevant to EM, though in a supporting authorship position rather than a leadership one.
Notable: participation in a national student global health cohort, with stated interests in primary care and social medicine.
* Includes 1 paper published after match day.
One co-first author publication in other medical fields. It was published after the match, so it was most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication at the time of the match, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.
Notable: co-authored a health advocacy article.
No publications could be identified in public sources.
Notable: contributed to a national, learner focused EM resource with contributors from multiple medical schools, recognized by the home faculty.
Zero confirmed publications does not mean none exist. It only means none were found in public sources.
A conference poster under a matching name belongs to an unrelated person and was excluded.
A record that comes mostly from graduate research completed before medical school, covering humanitarian and global health topics, with 3 papers in a first or second author position. Two items are directly relevant to EM and the rest are other medical. The early papers were completed before medical school, while the three most recent were published during it.
Notable: graduate training before medicine, contributions to widely used tools in the field, a teaching fellowship, and recognition for medical education work.
Written descriptions on this page are intentionally general to protect resident privacy. Counts and authorship figures are unchanged.
Reading this data
Research in this cohort is broad rather than EM focused: only 3 of 10 residents have specialty relevant work, 2 have no publications found, and most of the output sits in other medical fields.
A minority show substantial output from earlier graduate training, so for applicants, matching to this program did not appear to hinge on a deep EM publication 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.
