Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
Western University Otolaryngology
2026 Match
What the research profiles of this year's 4 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, presentations, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Program Director: Dr. Timothy Phillips
4
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 4 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=4).
3.25
avg. confirmed publications
2.5
avg. first or second authored
0.5
avg. otolaryngology relevant
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions, 2026 R-1 Main Residency Match, first iteration.
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- Demonstrated interest in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery.
- A file built from reference letters, the academic record and CV, and a personal letter, followed by interviews.
- Knowledge, scholarship, professionalism and technical ability expected of a strong student heading toward Royal College certification in the specialty.
- Sincere interest in training at this particular program.
- Examination scores are not evaluated as a file component.
Where research appears
Research and publications are a file review component and an explicit rank criterion, scholarly activity is assessed through both the file and the interview, and residents present at an annual research day with lab opportunities and a departmental Masters option.
Numbers
0 to 50
applicants per year
51 to 75%
interview invite rate
Inference, not the program's wording
Research is a named file component and rank criterion, but the program does not publish how much it counts, so it cannot be ranked against the other components. With some applicants not invited to interview, research may matter both when files are reviewed and at final ranking.
Gaps: CaRMS lists the quota of about 4 as approximate, reports applicant numbers only as a band, and does not publish interviews per year.
Where this cohort came from
University of Alberta
Dalhousie University
University of Ottawa
University of Saskatchewan
All four 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
Otolaryngology relevant
Other medical
Two first-authored systematic reviews on the safety of outpatient surgery for patients with obstructive sleep apnea, both published in 2025 with an otolaryngology faculty member as last author. The review of upper airway surgery, in the Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, is the specialty-relevant paper. The companion review of non-upper airway surgery, in PLOS One, is counted as Other Medical because it concerns perioperative care outside otolaryngology. Both are reviews of existing evidence rather than newly built protocols.
Several publications found under similar names were confirmed to belong to a different researcher and were excluded.
Notable: led a medical school research project in otolaryngology on pediatric airway presentations and contributed to a surgical education podcast episode on an ear condition.
The highest volume in the cohort, and entirely outside otolaryngology. Three papers in CJC Open analyze cardiovascular clinical trials: two systematic reviews of sex, race and age differences in device therapy outcomes, and a first-authored study of enrollment trends. Two emergency medicine papers, a first-authored qualitative study in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine and an observational study in the Journal of Emergency Nursing, and a scoping review in Systematic Reviews from time at a prior university complete the record.
Notable: presented the enrollment trends study as a conference abstract, and held peer tutor and teaching assistant roles at a prior university.
All four confirmed papers are first-authored, the only record in the cohort with that pattern. The one specialty-relevant paper is a case series on tracheotomy tube compression in the Journal of Laryngology and Voice. The rest are case-based surgical work outside the specialty: a muscle flap case series in esophageal cancer in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open, a thoracic oncology case report in Current Oncology, and a hepatitis C screening systematic review in Annals of Hepatology from before medical school. The record is built almost entirely from case series and case reports, with no newly built protocols.
Notable: presented the flap case series as a poster at a national specialty meeting, authored a conference abstract in spine surgery health economics, and trained as a research trainee at a hospital research institute before medical school.
A single first-authored original study in Transplantation (2026) on whether longer donor ventilation affects long-term lung function after lung transplantation, written with a large multi-author transplant group. It sits outside otolaryngology and is the only confirmed paper found for this resident.
Notable: no presentations or other activity were found in public sources, which does not mean none exist.
Reading this data
Output ranges from 1 to 6 confirmed publications, and the largest record, PGY1-B, sits entirely outside otolaryngology, mostly cardiovascular trial analysis and emergency medicine. The two residents with specialty-relevant work, PGY1-A and PGY1-C, each have exactly one directly relevant paper, and both are first-authored.
Every resident first or second authored at least one paper, and all four of PGY1-C's are first-authored. Overall the records are modest in volume and mostly outside the specialty, so this cohort is best read as the range of profile shapes seen this cycle rather than a target. Program weightings may change from year to year.
