Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
UBC Plastic Surgery
2026 Match
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. Esta Bovill
3
spots filled this match cycle, up from 2 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=3).
3.7
avg. confirmed publications
2.0
avg. first or second authored
1.7
avg. plastics relevant
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- Residents who are hard working
- Honesty and compassion
- A strong academic record
- Particular strength in subjects relevant to plastic surgery
Where research appears
File review treats research and publications as evidence of academic excellence and project completion, scholarly activity comes up at interview, and the curriculum encourages research from PGY-1.
51 to 200
applicants per year
0 to 25%
interview invite rate
12 to 15
interviews per year, as stated by the program
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 with a low invite rate the file review is selective, so research in the file could affect who is invited, but no research share can be assigned.
Gaps: The CaRMS page lists an interview date from the prior year, and some of the program goals text could not be read in full.
Where this cohort came from
University of British Columbia
IMG
Two 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
Plastic surgery relevant
Adjacent Specialty Research
Other medical
No publications were found for this resident in public sources. Zero publications does not mean none exist, only that none were found.
Relevant undergraduate or masters research: an undergraduate research project in plant genomics, a non-medical field.
Notable: held student representative and education committee roles with a national medical specialty association. No presentations were found in public sources.
* Includes 2 papers published after match day.
1
Adjacent Specialty Research
Four of five papers are first authored, led by a cleft palate cohort study in Plastic Surgery (Oakville) and an orthopedic gait study in Gait and Posture, with the remainder in pediatric surgery, pediatrics, and child health. Only the cleft palate study counts as plastic surgery relevant. Two papers were published after match day, so they were most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.*
Notable: presented research orally at an institutional research event, and an earlier conference abstract was later published as a full paper, counted once above.
* Includes 2 papers published after match day.
2
Adjacent Specialty Research
Six confirmed papers, all in plastic surgery or orthopedics and split evenly between case reports and retrospective or observational studies, including two in Cureus. One is first authored and one is second authored, with the other four in middle author positions. Two papers were published after match day, so they were most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.*
Notable: no presentations, awards, or leadership roles were found in public sources.
Two additional items were confirmed to belong to a different researcher and are excluded from the counts above.
Reading this data
No single research profile defines this cohort, with confirmed output ranging from no publications to six, and from mostly pediatric and other medical work to a record sitting entirely within plastic surgery and orthopedics.
Authorship also differed, with the largest share of first authored work coming from the resident whose research was least concentrated in plastic surgery. 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.
