DO recommendation letter question

[hawkeye3211]

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Hello,

The osteopathic physician that I shadowed wrote me a letter of recommendation recently. He was even kind enough to let me take a look at it without me asking. In the letter he had his contact info and signature, but no letterhead. He is an ER physician. Do you think it is fine if he just provides his contact info at the bottom of the letter?

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

Hello,

The osteopathic physician that I shadowed wrote me a letter of recommendation recently. He was even kind enough to let me take a look at it without me asking. In the letter he had his contact info and signature, but no letterhead. He is an ER physician. Do you think it is fine if he just provides his contact info at the bottom of the letter?

Should be okay. It would only be a problem with faculty letters.

 

[hawkeye3211]

Okay, thank you.

 

[Goro]

I see doctors and even Faculty submit LORs with no letterhead. If I ever have any doubts, I ask my DO colleagues if they know they guy/gal, or call them.

Hello,

The osteopathic physician that I shadowed wrote me a letter of recommendation recently. He was even kind enough to let me take a look at it without me asking. In the letter he had his contact info and signature, but no letterhead. He is an ER physician. Do you think it is fine if he just provides his contact info at the bottom of the letter?

 

[Donkk]

PCOM made me submit a new D.O. letter for no letterhead but, none of the other schools I applied to asked for it to be updated. I never knew it was missing a letterhead until they asked for it, no-one else cared lol.

 

[EDK]

Hey guys, I asked a question about the letterhead on PCOM's forum since to my knowledge they are the only school that requires a letterhead. What exactly is consider a letterhead? The reason I'm asking is that it seems like I have been hearing different things. Some people tell me that letterhead has to have a logo of the institution and some say the opposite and that only the contact information of the letter writer is needed to be consider a letterhead (name, address, phone). I think that is not true anymore because hawkeye's letter has the contact info and that's not considered a letterhead, so I assume a letterhead is the organization's logo? Thanks in advance.