What the research profiles of this year's 7 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, presentations, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- Collegial and affable individuals with proven academic and clinical excellence
- The committee considers all aspects of the application
- Scholarly work, including research and teaching, is valued
- Significant extracurricular achievements and reference letters are valued
- Two reviewers independently read and score every application, and top scoring applications are selected for interviews
Where research appears
File review judges research and publications on excellence, professionalism, work ethic and collegiality alongside the other components, and the interview evaluates scholarly activities in terms of academic and clinical excellence.
51 to 200
applicants per year
51 to 75%
interview invite rate
Inference, not the program's wording
Research has no separate weight. It is folded into academic and clinical excellence at file review and interview, so it can help at both stages, but the program publishes no weights and no research share can be assigned.
Gaps: Figures are the same for the CMG stream (quota 6) and the IMG stream (quota 1), Casper is required, the program does not state an interview count or rank list size, and the CaRMS page lists two different people as Program Director.
This cohort includes 6 Canadian medical graduates and 1 international medical graduate. Schools are shown as a set only, with international graduates combined into one pill, and are not matched to the individual research profiles below, since with a cohort this small that pairing would make individuals identifiable.
No confirmed medical publications were found in public sources for this resident, so there is no bar. Zero confirmed publications does not mean none exist, it only means none were found in public sources. The one authored paper found is higher education research outside medicine and is not counted.
Notable: spent a year coordinating clinical research on an interventional radiology ablation project before medical school. Prior degree is in life sciences.
* Includes 1 publication dated after match day.
Two of four papers are radiology, a second-authored education paper on competency-based training and a first-authored case-based review. The other two are middle-authored undergraduate lab papers in biomedical optics and reproductive biology, one of which built a new deep learning image classification method. The case review is dated after match day and was most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking.
Notable: held an executive role in a diagnostic imaging interest group and worked as a diagnostic imaging clerk before medical school. Undergraduate research used laser microscopy.
Two middle-authored systematic reviews on visual changes in psychiatric illness, written as a matched pair. A solid methodological tier, but entirely outside radiology and not lead authored.
Notable: completed an undergraduate thesis in a molecular lab within a health sciences degree. No radiology presentations or activities were found.
The only record in the cohort that is entirely first authored. It spans a thoracic imaging case report, a pilot study in pediatric interventional radiology that collected original data, and a psychiatry article from outside radiology.
Notable: the heaviest radiology leadership profile in the cohort, with leadership roles in student radiology groups and a national student radiology network. Also taught ultrasound and presented a radiology poster at a national meeting.
No publications were found in public sources for this resident. Zero confirmed publications does not mean none exist, it only means none were found in public sources. The research that exists is conference based rather than published.
Notable: poster presentations on primary care research, including as lead author, all outside radiology.
* Includes 1 publication dated after match day.
Four confirmed papers, level with the cohort high, and every paper is first or second authored, including one shared first authorship. Only one is radiology, a second-authored imaging pictorial essay, while the rest span cardiology and epidemiology and include a letter to the editor. One paper is dated after the match, most likely listed on the original application as in preparation or pending publication, worth keeping in mind when benchmarking.
Notable: three conference abstracts across endocrinology, gastroenterology, and radiology. The mix points to broad collaboration rather than a single research focus.
* Includes 2 publications dated after match day.
Four confirmed papers: two in endocrinology, one second-authored and one middle-authored, and two medical imaging conference proceedings papers, one second-authored and one middle-authored, which chart as radiology relevant. Both imaging papers are dated after match day and were most likely in preparation or pending publication at the time of the match, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking.
Notable: spent the year before residency as an imaging research specialist working on clinical data analysis and radiological audit, after several years as a research student in a bone health research setting. Also mentored aspiring medical students and co-authored a conference abstract in endocrinology, which is not counted.
Additional items reported in the original research could not be independently confirmed and are excluded from the counts above.
Reading this data
Radiology-specific publishing is a minority of this cohort's record. Only 7 of 17 confirmed papers are directly radiology, 3 of those 7 are dated after match day, and 10 sit in unrelated medical fields, with two of seven residents holding no confirmed publications at all.
What recurs instead is radiology exposure outside the journal record: interest group and student network leadership, imaging research and clinical roles, and conference presentations. The strongest authorship records belong to residents whose papers are mostly outside radiology, so this cohort reads as breadth and demonstrated engagement with the field more than a deep radiology paper trail. 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.
