Community radiologist LOR

[Ghuuraba]

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Hi

Im just wondering, in terms of LOR I have two options

Rads from community, academic surgery, surgery, maybe IR

or Rads from academic, community surgeons/IR

I have a surgery Sub I scheduled for september which I can replace with a rads rotation in hopes of getting a PD radiology letter versus my community rads letter. Should I just stick with the surgery sub i?

 

[Ghuuraba]

bump

 

[Radz123]

Your question is a little difficult to understand. From what I gather you currently have these four letters:

Community Rads
Academic Surgery
Community Surgery
IR

You have the option of replacing a community rads letter with a PD letter if you drop your surgery Sub I.

If this is the case, and I think you need 3? LOR's. I would make sure at least one letter is from a radiologist, then I would choose whatever letters you think is best. Your PD letter would be nice, but I sincerely doubt you'll impress him/her enough (or even have enough one on one exposure) to get a good letter during a single rotation. An exception to that would be that your PD is an interventionalist.

Regarding your own training in an effort to be the best physician possible, a surgery sub i is infinitely more important to you than another radiology rotation. You'll get plenty of radiology training during residency.

 

[Ghuuraba]

Right, the conflict is between academic surgery letter vs an academic radiology one....

I'm a carrib img with pretty good stats so I'm trying to maximize my chances