University of Ottawa Pediatric Neurology 2026 - Research Profile Infographic
Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile

University of Ottawa
Pediatric Neurology
2026 Match

What the research profile of this year's incoming resident actually looks like, by specialty relevance and notable activity, not just publication count.

Program Director: Dr. Amanda Yaworski

1
spot filled this match cycle, unchanged from 1 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=1).
3
avg. confirmed publications
1
avg. other medical
Program context

Source: CaRMS program descriptions

Selection weights

Selection weights not published

What the program says it looks for
  • A strong sense of ethics, empathy and integrity, and the ability to work well with others
  • Prior interest in pediatric neurology, shown through clinical electives, rotations and other scholarly work
  • Strong letters of reference, preferably at least one from a pediatric neurologist
  • Candidates must meet Ontario eligibility criteria
Where research appears

File review judges research and publications by peer reviewed publication or abstract presentation, and the interview judges scholarly activities by experience in scholarship projects.

0 to 50
applicants per year
76 to 100%
interview invite rate
Inference, not the program's wording

Research has no separate weight. It appears as peer reviewed publication or abstract presentation at file review and as scholarship experience at interview, so it can help at both stages, but the program publishes no weights and no research share can be assigned.

Gaps: Only the Ottawa CMG stream (quota 1) is listed, the program does not state an interview count or rank list size, and CaRMS shows the page as last approved February 3, 2026.

Where this cohort came from
McMaster University

This cohort has a single resident, who is a Canadian medical graduate, so the school shown here necessarily describes that resident. To protect privacy, the profile below is kept general and carries no school, hospital, or conference details.

Per resident breakdown
Other medical Non-medical (completed before medical school)
PGY1-A
CMG
3
confirmed pubs
1
other medical pubs
2
non-medical pubs
The one medical publication is a middle-authored medical education study on how research is weighted in the residency application process. Two further middle-authored papers come from non-medical basic science research completed before medical school, so they count toward the total but not toward medical relevance.
Notable: a student leadership role on a service learning committee, along with helping coordinate mentoring for pre-health students and volunteering in community health education. Early research experience came from a lab-based assistant role during undergraduate studies.
Reading this data

With one resident in the cohort, this page shows a single profile and not a pattern. The record is three publications, but only one is in medicine, a medical education study. The other two are non-medical basic science papers from before medical school.

For applicants, the useful signal is the shape of the profile: a small publication record in medicine, paired with sustained leadership, mentoring, and community involvement and earlier hands-on research experience. This program has filled one spot in each of the last two cycles, so each year's profile is a single data point. 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.

Methodology: Identities were used privately to look up and verify publication records, then discarded; the resident is labeled PGY1-A and is not otherwise identifiable. Confirmed counts reflect items independently matched against a verified publication record. Research completed before medical school is counted and shown separately as non-medical. Sample size is n=1 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.

Residency Match Canada, independent residency data, not affiliated with CaRMS or the University of Ottawa.