Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
Université de Montréal Urology
2026 Match
What the research profiles of this year's 2 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance and notable activity, not just publication count.
Program Director: Dr. Julien Letendre
2
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 2 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=2).
8.5
avg. confirmed publications
6.5
avg. first or second authored
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- Determined, motivated candidates committed to becoming urologists
- Capacity to acquire knowledge and technical skills
- Leadership and teamwork
- Strong clerkship rotation evaluations and a demonstrated interest in urology, including rotations
- Quality reference letters, especially from urologists, and a strong motivation letter
- Mastery of spoken and written French
Where research appears
File review looks at research participation, presentations and publication quality, while scholarly activity is not formally examined at interview.
0 to 50
applicants per year
76 to 100%
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 the file review but not as a formal interview component, so no research share can be assigned.
Gaps: The program says final weightings are set at a fall meeting and does not state an interview count or rank list size, French is mandatory for the CV, cover letter and interviews, and the page was last approved November 27, 2025.
Where this cohort came from
Université de Montréal
IMG
International medical graduates are grouped into a single pill. 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
Urology relevant
Adjacent specialty research
Other medical
0
adjacent specialty research
A small record entirely outside urology and oncology: three papers on medication use in pharmacy practice, one first-authored in Pharmacy and two middle-authored in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. All of this work was completed prior to medical school, so it is counted but is context for the profile rather than a urology signal.
Notable: contributed to a randomized trial as a student and presented research findings at a provincial research meeting before starting medicine.
2
adjacent specialty research
A deep, leadership-heavy record, with 12 of 14 papers first or second authored and the urology work spanning prostate cancer imaging, benign prostatic obstruction, andrology, and patient education across journals such as Cancers, BMC Urology, and BJU International. A first-authored systematic review and meta-analysis and a first-authored surgical technique paper stand out, and the technique paper is the only new method in this cohort. The two adjacent items are oncology case and pathology work, and the three other medical items are general and endocrine surgery case reports.
Notable: corresponding author on two papers, presented clinical work through meeting abstracts and posters, and is listed as a collaborator on a large international multicentre surgical study.
Excluded from the counts above: preprint versions of published papers, meeting abstracts, and collaborator-list credits.
Reading this data
Volume and subject focus split sharply across this cohort. PGY1-B built a deep, urology-centred record led mostly by first or second authorship, while PGY1-A matched with a small record built entirely outside urology before medical school.
For applicants, that suggests a large urology publication list was not a requirement for this program in 2026, though with n=2 that is one data point, not a trend. 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.
