Application lor help!!!

[iwumd07]

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I have 4 LORs and I have heard from multiple people and program directors that if the program you are applying to says to submit 3, then ONLY SUBMIT 3, not 4. That being said, which 3 should I submit? PLEASE RESPOND ASAP!! I want to be done with this! Thanks! 🙂

1. Associate Program Director at a top program I'm considering (did an away rotation there and she volunteered to write one).
2. Private practice anesthesiologist (did peds fellowship). Worked with her for a month before I did my away. She works at our hospital but is not on faculty, since our university doesn't have an anesthesiology residency program.
3. Chair of Internal Medicine--worked with him for a week on Medicine rotation.
4. Chair of Surgery--knows me the best of any of the others. Wrote an excellent letter (dictated it in front of me).


THANKS!!

 

[Idiopathic]

doesnt one of these things look not like the others

 

[iwumd07]

doesnt one of these things look not like the others

Basically I'm deciding between the Chair of Medicine and the PP Anesthesiologist at our hospital. Do PDs care more about a letter from someone who knows you pretty well and has worked extensively with you, or more about a letter from the Chair of a department outside of anesthesiology?

 

[Idiopathic]

well im not sure anyone here knows, but i also am not sure how glowing a letter can be from someone who doesnt know you that well, especially a chair of a department. there have been letters written that are essentially "candidate was on time and dressed appropriately for the week that i was on service" so I wouldnt use the IM chair letter, if it were me.