Side LOR question:
I'm gonna have an internal med rotation at a very reputable hospital, but this is my 6th block, which ends around December 16th or maybe a bit later depending on Midyear makeups. Think I could pull off a letter from my preceptor there? Or should I not count on being able to get an LOR from there and just get LORs from people that don't look as good on paper?
Another thing that I'm wondering about.
As of now, I think I'd have strong LORs from the retail pharmacist who was my boss at CVS for 3 years before management transferred him out, the DOP at the nursing home pharmacy where I work now, a former assistant dean at my school, my preceptor at my retail rotation, and the attending physician on the team that I worked with on my Internal Med rotation (the clinical pharmacist who was my preceptor, I only saw a couple of times a day and usually only to just pop by and show that I'm in the hospital or to present on something that he wanted me to find out about), and possibly a professor at my school.
And also hoping for a very strong LOR from a professor at my school who is going to be my ambulatory care preceptor as well as my adviser for my Capstone Project. Hoping to have my rotation there next month, and I'll probably be seeing a lot of her after that since we're supposed to work closely with our advisers on these projects.
I have mixed feelings about my other preceptors, in that I didn't talk to them much, or I just did my work and left, etc.
Also, what do you guys think about asking LORs from preceptors who you might have had some issues with? For example, at my institutional rotation, I felt that I learned a lot and that I contributed a lot during the rotation, however I had some professionalism issues such as constantly being 15-20 minutes late (it took me like 1/2 a month to figure out that the traffic patterns had changed a lot when September started).