Residency Match Canada · Program Research Profile
Western University Urology
2026 Match
What the research profiles of this year's 3 incoming residents actually look like, by specialty relevance, presentations, and notable activity, not just publication count.
Program Director: Dr. Jennifer Bjazevic
3
spots filled this match cycle, unchanged from 3 in 2025. Every stat below describes this full cohort (n=3).
4.7
avg. confirmed publications
1.7
avg. first or second authored
Program context
Source: CaRMS program descriptions
Selection weights
Interview 40%
CV 30%
Letters of reference 20%
Personal letter 10%
What the program says it looks for
- Genuine interest in urology as a lifelong career, and aptitude for the specialty
- Professionalism and strong teamwork
- Compassion and a commitment to excellent patient care
- A strong work ethic and sense of responsibility
- A commitment to lifelong learning, including a passion for scholarship in clinical, basic science or educational research
- Reference letters in related specialties can aid selection, and selection is meant to be objective, unbiased and consistent with inclusion, equity and diversity
Where research appears
Research and publications are judged at file review as evidence of publications or scholarly involvement, and scholarly activities are assessed at interview through questions about research or scholarly experience on the CV.
0 to 50
applicants per year
51 to 75%
interview invite rate
About 20
candidates interviewed each year, as stated by the program
Inference, not the program's wording
Research has no points value of its own. It sits inside the CV component, worth 30 points, and again inside the interview, worth 40 points, under scholarly activities. The program gives no research subweight, so no research share can be concluded.
Gaps: No IMG stream is offered, and the program publishes applicant numbers only as a broad bracket.
Where this cohort came from
McMaster University
Université de Sherbrooke
University of British Columbia
All three 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
Urology relevant
Other medical
* Includes 1 paper published after match day.
Both papers are urology relevant, retrospective multicentre studies published in BJUI Compass and BJU International, drawn from one clinical database on a minimally invasive prostate procedure. The BJU International paper is dated after match day, so it was most likely in progress or submitted around the CaRMS deadline, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.
Notable: a run of abstract presentations at national and international urology meetings, with two led as first author. That presented work covers more clinical questions from the same database than the two papers above, and none of it is counted in the chart.
One additional item is a preprint that has not been peer reviewed and is not counted.
* Includes 1 paper published after match day.
The highest volume in the cohort, but 8 of the 10 papers sit outside urology, covering neuromodulation, autonomic health, plastic surgery decision tools, wound healing and immunology. The two urology papers are reviews in Nature Reviews Urology and World Journal of Urology, and all five first or second authored papers are reviews. The Nature Reviews Urology paper is dated after match day, so it was most likely in progress or submitted around the CaRMS deadline, which is worth keeping in mind when benchmarking against this profile.
Notable: an honours undergraduate science degree, which produced two basic science papers on muscle biology that are not medicine related and not charted. Presented research posters at regional and international meetings and delivered a patient education session during medical school.
One preprint and one item whose attribution could not be independently confirmed are not counted.
Both papers are on emergency medicine topics, a retrospective study of triage predictions in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine and a health policy study of physician distribution in Health Policy. The resident is fourth author on each, and there is no urology publication in the record.
Notable: co-authored a pilot study on new technology in laparoscopic surgery that was presented as an abstract, the only urology focused project and not counted in the chart. Ran a small health related business in the years before medical school.
Reading this data
Urology publication volume is modest across this cohort. Only 4 of the 14 charted papers are urology relevant, and they sit with two of the three residents. The most urology focused record belongs to PGY1-A, entirely on urology topics but always as a middle author, while the highest volume belongs to PGY1-B, mostly outside urology and led through reviews.
PGY1-C matched with no urology publication at all, and all of the cohort's first or second authored work comes from one resident. With only three residents, this class is better read as three different routes into the specialty than as a typical profile. 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.
