Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
Queen's Orthopedic Surgery
2026 Match
What the research profiles of this year's 4 incoming residents look like, by specialty relevance and notable activity, not just publication count.
Program Director: Dr. David Bardana
4
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 4 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=4).
2
avg. confirmed publications
1.25
avg. first or second authored
0.5
avg. orthopedic relevant
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- An acceptable academic record, with proficiency in orthopedic related subjects.
- At least one orthopedic clerkship rotation.
- References from specialists.
- Research productivity during medical school, including projects, presentations, and publications.
- Once in the program, residents complete two research projects presented at an annual resident research day, with an option to pursue a concurrent master's or PhD.
Where research appears
Research history and project, presentation, and publication experience are reviewed in the file, and research interest is covered at interview.
CMG stream
201 to 400
applicants per year
26 to 50%
interview invite rate
About 30
interviews offered, as stated by the program
IMG stream
51 to 200
applicants per year
26 to 50%
interview invite rate
About 10
interviews offered, as stated by the program
Inference, not the program's wording
Research has no separate published weight, so no research share can be assigned, and the program does not publish exact weights. It appears in file review and at interview, inside broader assessments. With roughly a quarter to a half of applicants invited, research in the file could affect who is invited, but the description does not show that research alone decides an interview.
Gaps: The bracketed applicant and invite ranges do not line up with the program's own approximate goal figures, so both are shown as stated rather than reconciled.
Where this cohort came from
Dalhousie University
Memorial University
IMG
Three residents in this cohort are Canadian medical graduates and one is an international medical graduate. 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 relevant
Other medical
All six confirmed publications sit outside orthopedics, spanning emergency medicine, global health, patient experience, and sport psychology, with four as first or second author. Journals include Emergency Medicine Journal and BMC Health Services Research. One paper was published the year before medical school began and another the same year it began, so both likely reflect earlier research experience.
Notable: entered medicine through a graduate entry pathway, and was featured as a student voice in recruitment material from their medical school.
One preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed is excluded from the counts above.
No publications were found in public sources. Zero publications does not mean none exist, it only means none were found in public sources.
Notable: was featured in a national student interest group newsletter highlighting student researchers, which is not counted as a publication.
* One publication is dated after the match date. 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.
Both confirmed publications are orthopedic foot and ankle work from the same research group: a first-authored systematic review in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons* and a mid-authored clinical outcomes study in Foot and Ankle Specialist. The record is small but entirely on specialty.
Notable: no additional activity was found in public sources.
No publications were found in public sources. Zero publications does not mean none exist, it only means none were found in public sources.
Notable: no additional activity was found in public sources.
Reading this data
Half of this cohort had no publications found in public sources, and the research that was found sits in two very different profiles. One is small and entirely on specialty, led by a first-authored systematic review in foot and ankle surgery. The other is the larger body of work, built almost entirely in emergency medicine, global health, and patient experience research rather than orthopedics.
For applicants, the pattern suggests that a deep orthopedic publication record was not a requirement for matching here, since only one of four profiles has published orthopedic work. Public records can also understate a file, because projects, presentations, and posters often never appear in them. 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.
