Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
University of Ottawa
Plastic Surgery 2026 Match
What the research profiles of this year's 2 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, presentations, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Program Director: Dr. Simon Frank
2
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 2 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=2).
15.5
avg. confirmed publications
9
avg. first or second authored
2
avg. plastic surgery relevant
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions, 2026 R-1 Main Residency Match, first iteration.
Selection weights*
File review
Interview
* Segments are equal width for display only. The program lists these components but does not state their weights.
What the program says it looks for
- A full file review and an interview, combined to build the final rank list.
- A strong academic record and a demonstrated interest in plastic surgery.
- Professionalism, collegiality and honesty.
- Initiative and a commitment to lifelong learning.
- Participation in research and in teaching.
Where research appears
Research experience is assessed in the file review and again at interview, and the curriculum expects a publishable paper each year from second to fifth year.
0 to 50
applicants per year (program stated range)
0 to 25%
interview invite rate (program stated range)
Inference, not the program's wording
Research has no separate stated weight. It enters through the file review and the interview, inside broader assessments. With a low invite rate, the file review is selective, so research in the file could affect who is invited, though the program does not say research alone decides interviews.
Gaps: Weights and interviews per year are not published, applicant and invite figures are broad ranges, CMG and IMG streams read the same as extracted, and CaRMS lists stream quotas as approximate.
Where this cohort came from
Western University
University of Ottawa
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
* 2 papers were published between March and June 2026 and were potentially submitted prior to application.
** 2 papers were published after June 2026 and were most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication.
2
plastic surgery relevant
Highest volume in the cohort by a wide margin, with 17 of 29 papers first or second authored. The record is built mainly in urology, covering benign prostate disease, industry payments to physicians and gender-affirming care, with further work in anesthesia and perioperative medicine, dermatology, reproductive medicine, pediatrics and pediatric surgery. Only 2 papers sit in plastic surgery itself: a study of industry payments to Canadian plastic surgeons (Plastic Surgery) and a cross-sectional analysis of resident research output in the specialty (Plastic Surgery). The body of work leans toward reviews, letters, editorial comments and replies, alongside several original database and cohort studies and a research letter in a flagship generalist journal (JAMA). One paper was published in 2022, the year medical school began.
Notable: presented work at national and international urology meetings across several years, with most of those abstracts later published in full, including work from a kidney transplant anesthesia research group. Completed an honours health sciences degree before medical school, including undergraduate research in antimicrobial resistance that led to a counted database paper published before medical school.
2
plastic surgery relevant
A short record, but every paper is in plastic surgery. Both were published within about two months of each other, between late 2025 and early 2026: an outcomes study of a pediatric hand injury care pathway after rollout (Hand), where the resident is second author, and a review of the quality of online patient education resources in breast reconstruction (JPRAS Open), where the resident is third author.
Notable: before medical school, contributed as a student author to an open-access undergraduate physiology textbook, which is not counted as a publication. No presentations, awards or leadership items were found in public sources, which does not mean none exist.
Reading this data
Volume diverges sharply across this cohort. PGY1-A has 29 confirmed publications, 17 of them first or second authored, built mostly in urology. PGY1-B has 2 confirmed publications, both in plastic surgery and both published within a couple of months of each other.
Plastic surgery relevant output is identical by count at 2 papers each, so the gap in total volume comes entirely from other medical research. With a cohort of 2, each profile moves the averages a great deal, so they describe the shape of this year's match rather than a typical resident. Program weightings may change from year to year.
