Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
Queen’s University Radiology
2026 Match
What the research profiles of this year’s 4 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, authorship, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Program Director: Dr. Roshini Kulanthaivelu (Dr. Andrew Chung until November 1, 2026)
4
spots filled this match cycle, up from 3 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=4).
5
avg. confirmed publications
3.8
avg. first or second authored
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- Varied medical experience, a demonstrable interest in radiology, and strong academic performance
- Communication and interpersonal skills, maturity, empathy, and a professional attitude
- Interest in Kingston and in contributing to the Queen’s medical community
- Comfort with staff led and self directed learning in a close knit program with early hands on procedural and advanced imaging exposure
- Professionalism and work ethic, endorsed especially in the MSPR and reference letters
- Interest in research and critical appraisal, plus manual dexterity and visual perception skills
Where research appears
In file review, a dedicated research row covers research history, publications and presentations, and methodology experience, with an abstract or publications item listed as optional, and at interview research appears within interest in the discipline and scholarly activities.
51 to 200
applicants per year
26 to 50%
interview invite rate
Inference, not the program’s wording
The program does not publish exact weights, and research has no separate weight. It appears in file review and at interview, so it can help at both stages, but no research share can be assigned.
Gaps: The program does not state an interview count or rank list size, and only a CMG stream with a quota of 4 was listed.
Where this cohort came from
University of Alberta
University of Ottawa
University of Toronto
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
Radiology relevant
Other medical
*Includes 3 publications dated after match day.
Half of the confirmed output is radiology relevant, led by first-authored work on AI-assisted infant hip ultrasound in Pediatric Radiology, a second-authored ultrasound review in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, and a first-authored trauma imaging synthesis. The other three are a second-authored rheumatology paper in Clinical Rheumatology and two undergraduate public health papers completed prior to medical school. The pediatric radiology, ultrasound, and rheumatology papers are dated May 2026 or later, and were 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: prior graduate level training in public health and health policy, with project work focused on care access for underserved populations.
One confirmed publication, a middle-authored scoping review on anatomy teaching in health professions education, published in BMC Medical Education in February 2026. It is counted as other medical, and no radiology relevant research was found in public sources.
Notable: no presentations or additional activities were found in public sources, which reflects what is publicly visible and not necessarily everything that exists.
*Includes 2 publications dated after match day.
Four of the five confirmed publications are first or second authored and sit in rehabilitation medicine and neurology, in journals including the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Disability and Rehabilitation, and Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, all counted as other medical. The one radiology relevant item is a middle-authored deep learning MRI paper in NeuroImage, completed prior to medical school. The Disability and Rehabilitation and Movement Disorders Clinical Practice papers are dated April 2026 or later, and were 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: conference abstracts spanning neurology, rehabilitation education, and basic neuroscience.
The highest volume in the cohort, all laboratory based biomedical research with no radiology relevant work, centred on bone biology in mouse models in the Journal of Biomechanics, Bone, and the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. Earlier work in Frontiers journals covers hearing loss, cancer cell biology, and neuronal reprogramming. Five of the eight are first or second authored, and all are counted as other medical.
Notable: completed an MD-PhD, which accounts for the laboratory research in this profile. No presentations or additional activities were found in public sources.
Reading this data
Radiology specific publishing was not a prerequisite in this cohort. Only 2 of 4 residents have any radiology relevant work, 4 papers across 20 confirmed publications, and most of the output sits in rehabilitation and neurology, medical education, and laboratory science. The profile with the most imaging depth, PGY1-A, is first or second author on everything it lists.
Timing matters when reading these numbers. A quarter of the confirmed publications, 5 of 20, carry dates of April 2026 or later, including 2 of the 4 radiology relevant papers, and many were likely in preparation or pending at application time. 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.
