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Hey there, was wondering, after you finish a 1-2 year fellowship and are applying for jobs, who does your letters of rec typically come from? Do most jobs require letters from specific people? Your fellowship PD? Your residency PD? Or just people who know your work best?

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Hey there, was wondering, after you finish a 1-2 year fellowship and are applying for jobs, who does your letters of rec typically come from? Do most jobs require letters from specific people? Your fellowship PD? Your residency PD? Or just people who know your work best?
If you're applying for a subspecialty position, they'll want to see LORs from fellowship. If you're applying for a Gen Med job, you'll want to get them from residency AND fellowship.
 
Thanks Gutonc, so say you are applying for a job that is 50% allergy and 50% hospitalist or primary care, you would then ask your PD from IM residency and PD from allergy fellowship for a letter? Then, a third letter from whomever?
What happens when the old PD from residency is not there anymore?
 
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Thanks Gutonc, so say you are applying for a job that is 50% allergy and 50% hospitalist or primary care, you would then ask your PD from IM residency and PD from allergy fellowship for a letter? Then, a third letter from whomever?
What happens when the old PD from residency is not there anymore?
Doesn't need to be the PD. Could be an attending you had a good relationship with.

Honestly, recommendation letters for real jobs could largely be reduced to the following single line:
"I would/wouldn't be surprised to learn that Dr. X is a serial killer and has a freezer full of body parts in his/her basement."
Where all the writer had to do was circle either would or wouldn't.

As someone who reads this things on a not infrequent basis, it would be nice to not have to read between the lines.
 
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Doesn't need to be the PD. Could be an attending you had a good relationship with.

Honestly, recommendation letters for real jobs could largely be reduced to the following single line:
"I would/wouldn't be surprised to learn that Dr. X is a serial killer and has a freezer full of body parts in his/her basement."
Where all the writer had to do was circle either would or wouldn't.

As someone who reads this things on a not infrequent basis, it would be nice to not have to read between the lines.


Ha! That is really funny.
So, you are saying most jobs immediately post residency would not require that a letter be from your PD?
 
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