What the research profiles of this year's 9 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, presentations, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- An above average academic record with good clinical and interpersonal skills
- Aptitude for academic learning, medicine and radiology
- A keen interest in radiology shown in the application package
- A teamwork orientation and willingness to embrace the challenges of residency
- Leadership skill and collaborative ability, though prior leadership experience is not required
Where research appears
File review uses research and publications to gauge interest in and exposure to radiology, and the interview assesses knowledge of the candidate's own research.
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 both file review and interview, so it can matter at both stages, but no research share can be assigned.
Gaps: The program does not state an interview count or rank list size, and it runs a 7 place CMG stream and a 2 place Competitive Return of Service stream with a separate application, both showing the same published figures.
Eight 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.
Interventional radiology counts as radiology relevant. Research outside medicine is described in the notes and is not charted.
* 1 of 1 publications is dated April 2026 or later.
A single confirmed publication, a middle-authored systematic review on quality of life in an ophthalmology condition, so there is no radiology specific work in this record. The paper is dated after the match, so it was most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile. No presentations or abstracts surfaced in public sources, so this is best read as a minimal research record.
Notable: the most distinctive background is athletic rather than academic, a multi-year varsity career in throwing events through undergraduate studies after setting several school records in high school. No further research, leadership, or presentation activity was found in public sources.
Three confirmed publications, every one of them in radiology and all dated before the match. Two are first authored, an educational imaging review in sports medicine and a review of patient perspectives on artificial intelligence in medical imaging, and the third is a middle-authored contribution to a national radiology update. All three are reviews or educational pieces rather than new data or new methods, so the record reads as early, focused engagement with the specialty rather than a deep research history.
Notable: a certified strength and conditioning specialist who coaches climbing and competes in the sport, including route setting. No presentations, abstracts, or earlier research phases surfaced in public sources.
Two confirmed publications, both middle-authored public health work on vaccination, a scoping review on vaccine policy and an analysis of immunization completion. Neither is related to radiology, so the record shows research experience without specialty specific work. Both are dated before the match.
Additional items attributed to this name in public sources, a neonatal research paper and a pair of undergraduate presentations, could not be tied to this resident and are excluded from the counts above.
Notable: an early and varied research pipeline, with summer research placements in cell biology, plant physiology, and gastroenterology during undergraduate studies, a top presenter award at a summer research symposium, and a national gastroenterology summer studentship. Also served as a teaching assistant on family medicine curriculum development and held several peer mentoring roles, alongside multiple academic scholarships from high school onward.
* 2 of 4 publications are dated April 2026 or later.
Four confirmed publications, all radiology, with a clear lean toward artificial intelligence and ultrasound. A second-authored neuroradiology commentary and a middle-authored musculoskeletal ultrasound reliability study are joined by a co-first-authored systematic review and meta-analysis on AI fracture detection, the strongest research leadership signal in this record, and a middle-authored machine learning paper on generalization in medical imaging, which is a methods contribution. The meta-analysis and the machine learning paper are dated after the match, 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: a dual background in neuroscience and computer science, with earlier machine learning research on MRI classification that was accepted for conference presentation, plus software engineering and research development roles in health technology. Held national trainee leadership roles in an interventional radiology association, led a national high school medical career conference series, and contributed to artificial intelligence literacy curriculum for medical students.
* 1 of 1 publications is dated April 2026 or later.
One confirmed publication, a middle-authored contribution to a large multi-author CT radiomics study on imaging biomarkers for colorectal cancer. It is directly relevant but a small role on a large team, and it is dated after the match, so it was most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile. Unpublished work may exist that does not appear in public sources.
Notable: no presentations, abstracts, awards, or leadership activity surfaced in public sources. Medical training was completed through a graduate entry pathway abroad.
* 4 of 6 publications are dated April 2026 or later.
Six charted publications, with the four relevant papers all in transcatheter valve and structural heart research. These are counted as directly relevant under this program's rule for cardiac valve imaging and bench work, though three of them are bench studies and none is a radiology specific paper. Only one of the six is in a first or second author position. All four of these papers are dated after the match, 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. The two other medical papers come from earlier oncology and neurovascular work. One pre-medical review in veterinary regenerative medicine, first authored, is classed as non-medical and is not charted.
Two items listed on a public profile, a graduate thesis and a piece in a student-run journal, are not indexed peer-reviewed publications and are excluded from the counts above.
Notable: completed a research-based master's degree in oncology and cancer biology before medicine, supported by a provincial graduate scholarship and several competitive summer research awards. Co-authored a cardiology conference abstract, worked as a teaching assistant and an admissions test tutor, and has a long record of youth mentorship volunteering that earned a volunteer of the year recognition.
Six confirmed publications, every one in radiology, and five of them first or second authored, the strongest combination of focus and leadership authorship in the cohort. The record spans emergency and musculoskeletal imaging, including dual-energy CT work and a first-authored study of trauma CT angiography utilization, plus first-authored education research and a first-authored perspective on radiology funding. Every paper is dated before the match, so none carries a post-match flag.
Notable: completed a research master's degree in radiation biology before medicine and held a postdoctoral research position in a radiology department. Helped design and teach an undergraduate radiology course, worked as a research coordinator in a private radiology practice, and contributed to clinical trials and research on embolization therapies.
* 4 of 20 publications are dated April 2026 or later.
By far the highest volume in the cohort, but the shape matters more than the total. Twelve papers are other medical, mostly respiratory health literacy and smoking cessation work that makes up a long earlier research phase, and the earliest four appear to predate medical school. From 2025 onward the record pivots to imaging and procedural work. Eight papers are directly relevant, including a first-authored review of spine tumor imaging, a novel computational method for predicting valve complications from pre-procedural CT, the strongest initiative signal here, and two interventional radiology papers on vascular malformations, one of them a first-authored retrospective cohort. Four papers are dated after the match, 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 surfaced in public sources despite the size of the record.
* 6 of 7 publications are dated April 2026 or later.
Seven confirmed publications, six of them neuroradiology and all from a single research network, covering educational reviews, a systematic review with case series, an original imaging study, and a case report. The two first-authored papers are a systematic review on pediatric brain stimulation imaging and a commentary on academic radiology training pathways in Canada. The one other medical paper is a pituitary tumor outcomes study from a neurosurgical group. Six of the seven papers are dated after the match, so most of this record was likely in preparation or pending publication at application time, and the profile visible on the original application was probably much smaller than what is shown here.
Notable: no presentations, awards, or leadership roles surfaced in public sources. The concentration of work in one neuroradiology network, together with the training pathway commentary, points to sustained mentorship and interest in an academic career.
Reading this data
Output is highly skewed in this cohort. The mean is 5.6 confirmed publications but the median is 4, because one profile accounts for 20 of the 50 papers and most of that sits outside radiology. Radiology specific work appears in 7 of 9 profiles, though the load is modest, averaging 3.6 directly relevant papers per resident, and two profiles have no radiology publications at all.
The strongest radiology records pair first-authored original work with education or policy writing, and the recurring themes are neuroradiology, musculoskeletal imaging, artificial intelligence, and cardiovascular imaging. A large share of the dated output also lands after the match, 18 of the 50 papers, so the record visible at application time was often smaller than what is shown here. 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.
