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I'm an IMG....I just recently heard about this SLOR business. Do any programs require SLORs as opposed to LORs?
Thanks for the answer.
Thanks for the answer.
I'm an IMG....I just recently heard about this SLOR business. Do any programs require SLORs as opposed to LORs?
Thanks for the answer.
Pretty much all of them require SLORs from your Emergency Medicine rotations.
SLORs can (should?) only be done by attendings at a place that has a residency.
Non-emergency medicine LORs are just regular LORs. Don't use SLORs for them.
I'm an IMG. I won't have any letters from any programs in the US. Do they still require a SLOR from the EM doctor I did it from in the country of my medical school? The guy is however a US trained doctor.SLORs can (should?) only be done by attendings at a place that has a residency.
This is disastrous news, lol. The SLOR is way too detailed. I'm just in the middle of the class, so this is not good at all...although in my defense it is an uber-competitive school.
Also, my EM rotation was only one month long, so that's bad too.
I'm an IMG. I won't have any letters from any programs in the US. Do they still require a SLOR from the EM doctor I did it from in the country of my medical school? The guy is however a US trained doctor.
I guess I'm just screwed altogether since I have not done an EM rotation in America, huh?
And how come EM requires SLORs? I talked to an AMG applying for surgery and he didn't even know what a SLOR is. All my classmates are applying to IM and none of them have any idea what a SLOR is, although granted they are all IMGs. Is only EM very particular about this?
This is disastrous news, lol.
I guess I'm just screwed altogether since I have not done an EM rotation in America, huh?
In a word...yes.
Thanks for the honesty. And thank you Zinja for your informative post.
I am hoping for a miraculous step 2 score, lol. Maybe a crazy high score would give me at least a fighting chance, although I understand how scores are not enough. I'll do a post-doc if I don't match...I finally did my EM rotation and it's the first rotation I *actually* enjoyed a LOT.
Ok, I think you are saying I should just chuck the research letter, right? So I'd have three EM SLORs and one critical care LOR.A SLOR is a LOR, have all the EM docs write u a SLOR (3 i think?) and for your 4th LOR just get a regular LOR.
Ok, I think you are saying I should just chuck the research letter, right? So I'd have three EM SLORs and one critical care LOR.
Does anyone think having a research letter would be important or even helpful? I did a lot of research in med school and my PI will write a good letter, so I would like to use it if possible. If I used that letter, I would only have two EM letters (the PD letter and the away rotation letter) plus the critical care letter. Should I do that or only use the clinical letters? It is not EM research, if that matters.
That makes total sense. It's just that I want to apply for academic programs and work in an academic center. Do you still think I should only use the clinical letters even in that case? I guess I'm just worried that people will wonder why my PI didn't write me a letter since I spent a year doing research.The idea of the LOR is for the writer to impart to the reader how you act in a clinical setting.
So having a letter from a research doc isn't as helpful. They can talk about how nice a person you are, how dependable you are in the lab/research location, etc, etc...
But they can't talk about how you interact with patients, how well you present a case, how good of a differential you put together, etc. And that's the information that a residency program wants to see.
Bringing the thread back after a long time but I am confused.
I am an IMG who want to get into a EM program. I have a 2 month EM elective at my own hospital and planning to do 1 or 2 away EM electives in US. So my questions is whom do I get the SLOR or the SLORs? I guess the more I get is better,right? Can you get a SLOR from an away elective or it has to be from your own instution?
Please help me out on this
As an IMG, I have been working in ED in Central America for 2.5 years, and recently got 97/99/CS passed, but didn't have a rotation in US, hence no SLOR, only LOR from my chief. Would I still be able to have a shot at EM program in US? Or would I have better chance into IM/FAM/PED?
Yes, more is better. You can get a SLOR from any place you rotate, provided they're academic (like, have a residency there). There might be some more technical data about that (as I'm not up on the whole thing), but, if you are rotating where there are EM residents, then you can definitely get a SLOR.
In a word...yes.