What the research profiles of this year's 3 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, authorship, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Program Director: Dr. Blake Yarascavitch
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
* Segments are equal width for display only. The program lists these components but does not state their weights.
In file review, research is judged on interest and ability to communicate scholarly work, and scholarly activities are not separately evaluated at interview.
Estimate calculated as 0 applicants at a 76 percent invite rate to 50 applicants at a 100 percent invite rate. It is not an interview count stated by the program, and the low end is not useful on its own. The page notes approximately 25 to 30 applications in the last five years and more than 90 percent invited.
The program does not publish exact weights, and research has no separate weight. It appears in file review only, not as a separate interview score, so it can help shortlisting and the file review part of the final ranking, but no research share can be assigned.
Gaps: Only a CMG stream is listed, and the page states no interview count or rank list size.
2 of 3 residents are Canadian medical graduates and 1 is an International Medical Graduate. Schools are shown as a set only and are not matched to the individual profiles below.
This cohort splits along research background rather than sharing one shape. Two residents bring neurosurgery relevant work, one with a single first authored paper and the other with a deeper, mostly first or second authored body of research built over several years. The third resident's confirmed record sits entirely outside neurosurgery, which is worth reading alongside the broad clinical experience that appears to have been the stronger focus of that path into residency.
Volume alone would flatten these differences. The gap between a single first authored paper and four papers built inside one ongoing research program says as much about research trajectory and mentorship access as it does about output. 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.
Featured in this profile?
Tell us which card and which line, and we'll take a look.
Request an Edit
