What the research profiles of this year's 10 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, presentations, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights*
Pre-invitation file study
Interview room 1
Interview room 2
* Segments are equal width for display only. The program lists these three components and describes them as similar in weighting, but does not state exact weights.
What the program says it looks for
- A demonstrated interest in radiology during medical studies
- Academic excellence and sound clinical judgment
- Professional ethics, thoroughness and organization
- Scientific curiosity and the ability to synthesize information
- Communication skills, teamwork, management and leadership ability
- Candidates from varied backgrounds and experiences
Where research appears
File review looks at published articles, presented abstracts and research involvement, and the interview judges scholarly activity on scientific rigor, curiosity, thoroughness and work capacity.
201 to 400
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 both file review and interview, which sit within a three part final ranking, so it can affect both stages, but no research share can be assigned.
Gaps: The program does not state an interview count or rank list size, its page lists 10 places in the header but 9 in the body text, its applicant range conflicts with a separate sentence saying the committee studies about fifty applications a year, Casper is required, interviews are held in French, and the page was last approved November 27, 2025.
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. All international medical graduates are grouped into a single pill, and individual CMG or IMG status is not shown on the cards.
* Includes 1 publication dated after the April match cutoff.
Two first-authored papers and seven middle-authored ones, nearly all in brain and sleep science in older adults with cognitive decline or sleep disorders, including one review and one short commentary. A few use brain imaging measures as a research tool, but none is radiology research. The most recent first-authored paper is dated after the cutoff, so it was most likely in preparation or under review at the time of application.
Notable: five further papers in psychology and dream research are not medicine related and are not counted above. Also presented a long run of conference abstracts, mostly in sleep and aging research. This record reflects an extensive research background outside clinical practice.
* Includes 2 publications dated after the April match cutoff.
Both papers are middle-authored. One is a prospective imaging study comparing MRI techniques in liver disease, the only directly radiology paper in the entire cohort. The other is a randomized pilot trial in transplant nutrition. Both are dated after the cutoff, so both were most likely in preparation or under review at the time of application.
Notable: no presentations or notable activity were found in public sources.
One middle-authored paper from a large international team working in cancer immunology, from early in the resident's research career and outside radiology.
Notable: first-authored a conference abstract on how obesity staging in childhood relates to mental health outcomes years later. Abstracts are not counted as publications.
One second-authored systematic review and meta-analysis comparing surgical techniques in ophthalmology, published in January 2026. It sits outside radiology, so it is classed as other medical.
Notable: a meeting-abstract version of the same review was also presented. Abstracts are not counted separately.
One middle-authored study protocol for a pediatric nutrition trial, describing a planned study rather than reporting results. Imaging is used as an outcome measure, but the focus is nutrition and liver health, so it is classed as other medical.
Notable: no presentations or notable activity were found in public sources.
One second-authored retrospective cohort study in neurosurgery, published in February 2026. It sits outside radiology, so it is classed as other medical.
Notable: no presentations or notable activity were found in public sources.
Zero publications does not mean none exist. It only means none were found in public sources.
Notable: presented two conference abstracts, one first-authored, on a rapid blood test for early stroke assessment. Abstracts are not counted as publications.
Zero publications does not mean none exist. It only means none were found in public sources.
Notable: first-authored a radiology research presentation during medical school, a retrospective imaging study of a wrist fracture complication done with radiology mentors. Presentations are not counted as publications.
Zero publications does not mean none exist. It only means none were found in public sources.
Notable: contributed to a nuclear medicine research abstract at a major international meeting in 2022. Abstracts are not counted as publications.
Zero publications does not mean none exist. It only means none were found in public sources.
Notable: took part in a funded summer research project in radiology during medical school. No resulting publication or presentation was found in public sources.
Reading this data
Research output in this cohort is low and concentrated. One resident accounts for 9 of the 15 confirmed publications, six of ten profiles have at least one, and four have none found in public sources. Outside that one record, those with papers mostly show one or two.
Radiology-specific research is rare here: only 1 of the 15 confirmed papers is directly radiology research, and it was dated after the match cutoff. Most published work sits in other medical fields, which suggests this cohort was not selected on a deep radiology publication record alone. 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.
