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Old 02-20-2012, 03:10 PM   #17
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If you decided to do EM early, you will need to do extra rotations again later on for LoR's, because it is very hard to be solid early on. I'll say it again, I see rotators throughout the year, and students continue to fail to impress early on in their 3rd year and come back with clueless faces on any area of medicine they haven't dealt with before.

It's fine and I'll teach them, and give them appropriate evals for the point in the year they're at, but they would not have a glowing LoR if they asked for one.
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