Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
Western University Radiology
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. Mousumi Bhaduri
4
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 4 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=4).
2
avg. confirmed publications
1.75
avg. first or second authored
1.25
avg. radiology relevant
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Selection weights not published
What the program says it looks for
- Interest in radiology shown in the personal letter, three reference letters and scholarships
- Strong interpersonal skills, along with teaching and research interests
- Excellent communication and collaboration, teamwork, and a positive attitude and work ethic
- A well rounded, hard working, flexible and determined approach
- Training goals built around a CanMEDS based curriculum, with experience in research, quality assurance, teaching and multidisciplinary collaboration
- Elective choice is not used as a screening measure for an interview
Where research appears
Research and publications are judged by relevance and number of publications at file review, publications also appear in the CV review, and scholarly activities are assessed at interview from the CV.
51 to 200
applicants per year
51 to 75%
interview invite rate
Inference, not the program's wording
Research has no separate weight. It appears at file review and again at interview, so it can affect both shortlisting and final ranking, but the program publishes no weights, so no research share can be assigned.
Gaps: Only the London CMG stream (quota 4) is listed, with no IMG stream, and the program does not state an interview count.
Where this cohort came from
University of Ottawa
Western University
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
Radiology relevant
Adjacent Specialty Research
Other medical
2
Adjacent Specialty Research
The deepest and most focused record in the cohort: three first-authored publications, all in imaging. One is a methods and reporting-quality study of imaging research itself, and the other two are PET-based chest imaging work that falls in nuclear medicine. All three were published before match day.
Notable: co-authored a conference presentation on chest imaging findings, from the same line of research as the publications.
0
Adjacent Specialty Research
One confirmed publication, a middle-authored contribution to a large multi-team MRI perfusion analysis study. It is directly relevant to radiology, but the authorship position means it reflects participation in a big collaboration rather than research leadership.
Notable: presented the same collaborative study at an international imaging conference before it was published, which is not counted, and holds an undergraduate background in neuroscience.
* Includes 1 publication dated after match day.
0
Adjacent Specialty Research
Three confirmed publications, all first or second authored: a first-authored review on large language models in radiology, a first-authored education study centred on interventional radiology, and a second-authored radiation oncology case report. The education study 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: completed a graduate degree in which an AI project automating biomarker assessment in breast cancer tissue was adopted into clinical workflows, and co-authored a pathology AI conference abstract, which is not counted. Also active in community and sustainability advocacy.
* Includes 1 publication dated after match day.
0
Adjacent Specialty Research
One first-authored case report in interventional radiology. It 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: serves as a peer reviewer for a medical journal.
Reading this data
Publication volume is modest across this cohort, with every resident at three confirmed publications or fewer. What stands out is how targeted the work tends to be: most of it is first or second authored, and 5 of 8 papers are radiology relevant, including 2 in interventional radiology, with 2 more in nuclear medicine.
Only one profile shows a sustained line of research in imaging, and one resident's directly relevant output is a middle-authored contribution to a large collaboration. For applicants, the takeaway is that this cohort's records are small in absolute terms and spread across radiology and its neighbouring fields. 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.
