Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile

University of Manitoba
Plastic Surgery 2026 Match

What the research profiles of this year's 2 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, authorship, and notable activity, not just publication count.

Program Director: Dr. Courtney Wilkes

2
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 2 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=2).
2.5
avg. confirmed publications
0.5
avg. first or second authored
1.5
avg. plastic surgery relevant
1
avg. other medical
Program context

Source: CaRMS program description for the 2026 R-1 Main Residency Match, first iteration. carms.ca program descriptions

Selection weights

Selection weights not published

What the program says it looks for
  • Graduation from an accredited medical school, with recent graduation or active clinical practice
  • Canadian citizenship or permanent residence
  • Demonstrated interest in the specialty
  • No history of disciplinary action
  • Current reference letters and a complete, well organised application
Where research appears

The file review lists interest in the discipline rather than research, interviews cover research and education experience, and the curriculum includes a resident research director, a yearly paper for Research Day, and a biostatistics analyst.

Applicant numbers

CMG stream, as listed by CaRMS

51 to 200
applicants per year
26 to 50%
interview invite rate
Inference, not the program's wording

Research has no separate published weight here. It appears inside the broader file review and at interview. With a mid range invite rate, research in the file could play some part in who is invited, but nothing published shows that research alone decides an interview.

The program does not publish selection weights, and its stated goals could not be fully reviewed, so this summary covers only the requirements and curriculum details that were visible.

Where this cohort came from
McMaster University
Queen's University

Both residents in this cohort are Canadian medical graduates. 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 Other medical
PGY1-A
CMG
1
confirmed pub
1
first or second author
1
plastic surgery relevant
A single confirmed publication, first-authored and directly relevant to the specialty, in the journal Plastic Surgery. It is a qualitative interview study with new data collected from families on pediatric hand injury care, which makes it original research rather than a review of existing literature. One paper cannot show breadth, so this record is best read as a single data point. A count of 1 means one paper was found in public sources, not that no other work exists.
Notable: no presentations, education work, leadership roles, or prior degrees were found in public sources, which does not mean none exist.
PGY1-B
CMG
4
confirmed pubs
2
plastic surgery relevant
2
other medical
Four confirmed publications, all in middle author positions, split evenly between plastic surgery and general surgery. The two directly relevant papers are a retrospective clinical review on hand fracture management in the journal Plastic Surgery and a scoping review on microsurgery education in the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. The other two are systematic reviews and meta-analyses in colorectal surgery, published in The American Surgeon and in Surgery, and count as other medical research, showing activity outside the specialty. The record leans toward synthesis and review work rather than newly built protocols.
Notable: no presentations, education work, leadership roles, or prior degrees were found in public sources, which does not mean none exist.
Reading this data

The two profiles differ in both volume and shape. PGY1-B has four confirmed publications, all in middle author positions and split evenly between plastic surgery and general surgery, while PGY1-A has a single first-authored plastic surgery study. With 2.5 confirmed publications on average, this cohort suggests a large publication count was not a precondition for matching here.

Hand fracture work appears in both profiles, though with two residents that is an observation about two records, not a program pattern. Program weightings may change from year to year.

Disclaimer: 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.

Methodology: Identities were used privately to look up and verify publication records, then discarded; residents are labeled PGY1-A and PGY1-B and are not otherwise identifiable. Confirmed counts reflect published, peer-reviewed items matched against a verified publication record. Preprints, abstracts, and presentations are not counted. Program context is paraphrased from the CaRMS program description and describes the program, not individual residents. Sample size is n=2 from a single program year, not a stable year-over-year benchmark, and counts this small should be read as illustrative of profile shape rather than a statistically robust comparison.

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