I was originally going to send just 3 rad onc letters (home chair, away PD, research) but recently heard that it could be somewhat helpful to send a medicine letter, so I have decided to recycle one of my prelim IM letters for the rad onc application, but I am not sure which. My choices are:
-3rd year clerkship (summary of the whole rotation/department letter)
-sub I director (sort of a summary letter for the rotation)
-sub I attending
I could also ask for a letter that combines the 3rd and 4th year (sub I) rotations and is a summary of all of my IM experiences.
It seems like a lot of people in similar shoes choose the sub I attending but while he told me it was a strong letter, I only worked with the attending for 1 week, whereas the sub I director has comments from all 4 attendings I worked with plus all of the supervising residents, so it might be overall better or have more nice superlatives. However, is it typical to use a rotation director's letter for this position? Thank you in advance.
-3rd year clerkship (summary of the whole rotation/department letter)
-sub I director (sort of a summary letter for the rotation)
-sub I attending
I could also ask for a letter that combines the 3rd and 4th year (sub I) rotations and is a summary of all of my IM experiences.
It seems like a lot of people in similar shoes choose the sub I attending but while he told me it was a strong letter, I only worked with the attending for 1 week, whereas the sub I director has comments from all 4 attendings I worked with plus all of the supervising residents, so it might be overall better or have more nice superlatives. However, is it typical to use a rotation director's letter for this position? Thank you in advance.