UBC Orthopedic Surgery 2026 Match
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UBC Orthopedic Surgery
2026 Match

What the research profiles of this year's 6 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, authorship, and notable activity, not just publication count.

Program Director: Dr. Fay Leung

6
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 6 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=6).
4.2
avg. confirmed publications
2.8
avg. first or second authored
0.7
avg. orthopedic relevant
3.5
avg. other medical
Program context

Source: CaRMS program descriptions

Selection weights

Selection weights not published

What the program says it looks for
  • A strong academic background
  • CanMEDS attributes
  • Clear interest and experience in orthopedics
  • Strong references
  • Good interview performance
  • Training goals that include the principles and practice of clinical research
Where research appears

Research is considered in file review and at interview, and training includes clinical research principles.

51 to 200
applicants per year
51 to 75%
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, and research in the file could affect who is invited, but no research share can be assigned.

Gaps: The program does not state an interview count, and the CaRMS page lists only a CMG stream.

Where this cohort came from
University of British Columbia
McMaster University
IMG

This cohort includes 5 Canadian medical graduates (CMG) and 1 international medical graduate (IMG). 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
PGY1-A
CMG
1
confirmed pubs
0
first or second author
0
orthopedic relevant
1
other medical
One confirmed paper, middle authored (third position), classed as other medical. A book chapter in a non-medical field is described here but not charted.
PGY1-B
CMG
16
confirmed pubs
12
first or second author
1
orthopedic relevant
15
other medical
The largest body of work in the cohort: 7 first authored and 5 second authored papers. One paper is directly orthopedic, a review on ACL reconstruction in The Knee, and the other 15 are other medical. Five papers from 2021 and 2022 appear to predate medical school and are counted but flagged.
Conference abstracts listed in the original research are not counted as publications.
PGY1-C
CMG
1*
confirmed pubs

* The one counted paper was published after match day. A late publication date most often means the paper was listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.

1
first or second author
1
orthopedic relevant
0
other medical
One confirmed paper, a second authored scoping review that is directly orthopedic. A scoping review sits lower on the methodological ladder than original clinical data.
PGY1-D
CMG
2
confirmed pubs
2
first or second author
0
orthopedic relevant
2
other medical
Two confirmed papers, both first authored: an original skull base research study and a systematic review on head and neck reconstruction. Both are classed as other medical because the topics sit outside orthopedics.
PGY1-E
CMG
3*
confirmed pubs

* One counted paper (April 2026) was published after match day. A late publication date most often means the paper was listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.

2
first or second author
1
orthopedic relevant
2
other medical
Three confirmed papers, two of them first or second authored. The directly relevant one is a first authored paper in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, and two papers in AIDS Care are classed as other medical, sixth of nine authors on the 2025 paper and second of thirteen on the 2026 paper.
PGY1-F
IMG
2
confirmed pubs
0
first or second author
1
orthopedic relevant
1
other medical
Two confirmed papers, both in middle author positions (sixth of nine and fourth of eight), so there is no first or second authorship in this profile. One is a directly orthopedic trauma study and the other is a survey classed as other medical.
Additional items reported in the original research could not be independently confirmed and are excluded from the counts above.
Reading this data

Volume was uneven but mostly modest. One resident accounts for 16 of the cohort's 25 confirmed papers, while the median is 2 and five of six profiles have 3 or fewer. Research in orthopedics itself was thin: 4 of 25 papers are directly orthopedic and 21 of 25 sit in other medical fields.

What recurs is research leadership rather than topic fit. Four of six residents hold a first or second author position on at least one paper. 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-F and are not otherwise identifiable. Confirmed counts reflect peer-reviewed items matched against a verified publication record. Preprints, conference abstracts, and non-peer-reviewed media are not counted, and research outside medicine is described but not charted. Sample size is n=6 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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