Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
Université de Montréal
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. Élie Boghossian
3
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 3 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=3).
6.3
avg. confirmed publications
6.0
avg. first or second authored
3.3
avg. plastics relevant
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights (points out of 40)
Plastic surgery clinical rotations 12
Other clerkship rotations 10
Research projects, publications and presentations 6
Reference letters 6
CV awards, leadership and distinctions 4
Prior education 2
What the program says it looks for
- A francophone program, with the application submitted in French
- A mandatory plastic surgery rotation
- Three reference letters from Canadian plastic surgeons
- A group virtual interview
- A final ranking built from summed scores across the components above
- A research director on the admission committee, with interview questions that cover clinical knowledge, university community involvement and research involvement
Where research appears
Research is scored in the file review for the number and quality of projects, publications and presentations, and it comes up again in the interview's scholarly activities section.
201 to 400
applicants per year
26 to 50%
interview invite rate
Inference, not the program's wording
Research is the only component scored on its own in the file review, at 6 of 40 points, level with reference letters and well behind clinical rotations, which add up to 22. With roughly a quarter to half of applicants invited, those points could affect who is interviewed, but the page does not show that research alone decides an invitation.
Gaps: CaRMS lists 2 positions and notes an inter-university agreement with Sherbrooke for 3 across pathways, states quotas as approximate, and does not publish interviews per year.
Where this cohort came from
Université de Montréal
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. International schools are combined under IMG.
Per resident breakdown
Plastic surgery relevant
Other medical
* 7 of these papers are dated April 2026 or later, after match day.
The largest and broadest record in the cohort, with 15 of 16 papers first or second authored, in journals including The Journal of Hand Surgery, JPRAS Open and Burns. Half sits directly in plastic surgery, led by a focused line of pediatric hand surgery work, and the rest is a separate diabetes and endocrinology stream plus one ENT review and one large multi-center meta-analysis with a minor middle authorship. The seven papers dated after match day* 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 at specialty and diabetes meetings, with posters and an abstract that correspond to papers already counted. The diabetes work leans toward patient experience and digital health design.
Two additional items reported in the original research could not be independently confirmed and are excluded from the counts above.
* This paper is dated July 2026, after match day.
One confirmed paper, first authored with guarantor status, a systematic review and meta-analysis in microsurgery published in the International Journal of Surgery. It is dated after match day* and 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. At one paper, it is the lightest record in the cohort.
Notable: the review protocol was prospectively registered, a methods signal the count does not capture. Earlier laboratory research outside clinical medicine is not counted in the bar.
Two confirmed papers, both first or second authored: an original hand surgery study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open and an original pediatric nephrology study in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation from earlier in training. Both were published before match day, so no post-match flag applies.
Notable: no presentations, leadership roles, or other activities could be verified from public sources.
One additional item reported in the original research could not be independently confirmed and is excluded from the counts above.
Reading this data
Research volume does not define this cohort: one resident has 16 confirmed papers across two separate research streams, while the other two have 1 and 2.
What the three share is a first or second author record on 18 of 19 confirmed papers and at least one paper directly in plastic surgery, most often in hand surgery or microsurgery. 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.
