Do all of my ERAS letters need to be from FM doctors?

[Hollow Knight]

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I've already got a couple of nice FM docs to write me letters for residency. I need at least one more letter to speak to my clinical acumen- would it matter if that letter happened to be from, say, an internist or med-peds doctor who liked me and offered to write me one?

I'm not dual-applying, and I don't want to give programs that impression. Just curious if I'm overthinking this or not.

Also I don't think @NotAProgDirector is an FM doc but hope you don't mind me atting you since you always seem to give helpful advice on residency matters as well 🙂

 

[cabinbuilder]

You are over thinking. I actually applied surgery and had non-surgeons letters. Ended up scrambling into FP in the end and used the same letters. As long as the majority are in what you are applying to.

 

[Ironheme]

I've already got a couple of nice FM docs to write me letters for residency. I need at least one more letter to speak to my clinical acumen- would it matter if that letter happened to be from, say, an internist or med-peds doctor who liked me and offered to write me one?

I'm not dual-applying, and I don't want to give programs that impression. Just curious if I'm overthinking this or not.

Also I don't think @NotAProgDirector is an FM doc but hope you don't mind me atting you since you always seem to give helpful advice on residency matters as well 🙂

Doesn't need to. Just make sure the internist/meds-peds mentions your interest in FM. It was only a problem when there were 0 letters from FM, and none of them spoke to the applicant's interest in FM, so I presumed they were dual applying.