prelim/TY and LOR's

[badasshairday]

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Quick question. Can we reuse our Radiology LOR's for Prelim/TY applications? Ie. if I have an IR, DR, Medicine LOR's, can I use these for my prelim apps as well? Or do I need to get more non-rads letters? Ie. 3 medicine letters for prelim medicine or 3 surgery letters for prelim surg? And do I need a chairman's letter?

 

[cowme]

Quick question. Can we reuse our Radiology LOR's for Prelim/TY applications? Ie. if I have an IR, DR, Medicine LOR's, can I use these for my prelim apps as well? Or do I need to get more non-rads letters? Ie. 3 medicine letters for prelim medicine or 3 surgery letters for prelim surg? And do I need a chairman's letter?

I used 2 medicine 1 DR. It worked fine.

 

[hidoc]

hi,

for the two medicine letters, were the letters just writted by med faculty saying you would make a great optho, derm etc... or did the med people say you would be good at med (for intern year)?

 

[Gabujabu]

I was also wondering about the idea mix of LORs for TY/Prelim Programs. For rads, I used 2 clinical, 1 rads, 1 research advisor (>4 years). Our school sends the medicine dept. letter with the Dean's letter, although the IM chair told me it would be strong. I was thinking about the following mix:

Prelim: IM, IM, Research Advisor, Medicine Chair
TY: IM, IM, Research Advisor, (Rads or Medicine Chair?)

I thought that it would probably be remiss not to include my research advisor, since he is mentioned frequently on my app. Although I don't think prelim/TY care too much about research, I was concerned that it could raise a red flag not to include this letter and use rads instead. Would prelim programs even care if I don't include my rads letter? Do you need the medicine department letter for TYs (as a believe you do for some prelims)?

 

[nightflight]

Be careful about prelim/TY. Radiology is easy to match these days. Prelim/TY is much harder than radiology.