Memorial Orthopedic Surgery 2026 Match
Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile

Memorial Orthopedic Surgery
2026 Match

What the research profiles of this year's 3 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance and notable activity, not just publication count.

Program Director: Dr. Megan Cashin

3
spots filled this match cycle, down from 4 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=3).
0.7
avg. confirmed publications
0.3
avg. first or second authored
0.3
avg. ortho relevant
0.3
avg. other medical
Program context

Source: CaRMS program descriptions

Selection weights

Selection weights not published

What the program says it looks for
  • Strong academic achievement
  • The ability to get along and work well with others
  • Interest in scholarly activity and research
  • Extracurricular interests
  • An interview impression that fits well with the existing resident group
Where research appears

Research is looked at during file review, as interest in scholarly activity and the ability to complete projects, and again at interview, as interest and ability to complete the scholarly part of training.

51 to 200
applicants per year
76 to 100%
interview invite rate
Inference, not the program's wording

Research has no separate published weight here. It appears in file review and at interview, inside broader assessments. With a high invite rate, most applicants whose files are reviewed are invited, so research is more likely to matter in final ranking than in whether an interview is offered. The program does not publish exact weights, so no research share can be assigned.

Gaps: The page does not publish selection weights or an annual interview count, and the per candidate interview timing it describes is not an interview total.

Where this cohort came from
Memorial University of Newfoundland
University of Ottawa

All three 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
Orthopedic surgery relevant Other medical
PGY1-A
CMG
0
confirmed pubs
No confirmed publications were found in public sources for this resident. A count of 0 does not mean none exist, only that none were found in public sources.
Notable: had a professional engineering career before medical school and was recognized for community service and leadership. Has also presented a poster on a clinical documentation topic at a national meeting.
PGY1-B
CMG
1
confirmed pubs

* This paper is dated after match day. 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.

0
first or second author
0
ortho relevant
1
other medical pubs
One third-authored scoping review on perceptions of artificial intelligence in surgical care, published in Surgery. It sits outside orthopedics, so it counts as other medical rather than specialty relevant.
Notable: has presented a student poster from a clinical research project outside orthopedics. Also served on the research team of a student-led platform that connects medical students with research opportunities.
PGY1-C
CMG
1
confirmed pubs
1
first or second author
1
ortho relevant
0
other medical pubs
One first-authored reliability study on shoulder imaging classification, published in JSES International. It is the only orthopedic-specific paper in the cohort and the only first-authored one.
Notable: an abstract version of the same study was also presented orally at a national meeting. A separate survey study of medical students is pending publication and has also been presented orally, so it is not counted until published.
Reading this data

Confirmed research volume was low across this cohort. One resident has a first-authored orthopedic imaging study, one has a single third-author paper outside orthopedics, and one has no confirmed publications, so published research was not a visible feature of every profile in this year's match.

A cohort of 3 is too small to show a stable pattern, and public sources only capture what is indexed, so read this as one year's snapshot rather than a benchmark. 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; residents are labeled PGY1-A through PGY1-C and are not otherwise identifiable. Confirmed counts reflect items matched against a verified publication record, and items whose identity could not be confirmed are excluded. Sample size is n=3 from a single program year, not a stable year-over-year benchmark, and counts this small should be read as illustrative of profile shape rather than a statistically robust comparison.

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