Letters of Rec.

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For our LORs, is it REQUIRED that we have two anesth. people write letters? Right now I have the anesth. residency director and an internal med attending writing my letters and I'm deciding between another anesth. md who knows me pretty well and a psyc. attending who thought I was the greatest thing since sliced bread and practically begged to write me a LOR.

Any thoughts?

 

[UTSouthwestern]

As with any letter, go with those people who you know will write you the best letters. If that means the psych guy, go with the psych guy. Besides, you can send the other letter in separately to the programs.

 

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For our LORs, is it REQUIRED that we have two anesth. people write letters? Right now I have the anesth. residency director and an internal med attending writing my letters and I'm deciding between another anesth. md who knows me pretty well and a psyc. attending who thought I was the greatest thing since sliced bread and practically begged to write me a LOR.

Any thoughts?

For what it's worth, I'm sending in letters from two anesthesia attendings (one "simple" attending and one director) and a professor of neurology at an Ivy school who I worked closely with in the past. I've got a couple other non-anesthesia letters that I may use for my prelim spots.

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[tiffin25]

Do you need separte rec letters for prelim programs?

 

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Do you need separte rec letters for prelim programs?

From the residents I've talked to, the answer is "no". The prelim programs pretty much understand that you're applying for anesthesiology.

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[Gator05]

I've looked through previous threads, and haven't found a similiar request, so here it goes...

I have 4 LoR; 3 from anesthesiologists (chairman, PD, and one who knows me pretty darn well) and one from a neonatologist (who knows me pretty darn well from research and a little bit of clinicals).

Should I use all 3 anesthesiologists for my anesthesiology programs, and then the Letter from neonatology from pre-lim? Or do you all think the anesthesiology programs would appreciate the diversity?

Gracias for any advice!

 

[Gator05]

Bump!!!

 

[UTSouthwestern]

As previously stated, I would recommend going with the three that you think have given you the best review. You can send the fourth letter separately to the programs you are considering for added benefit.