Residency LOR Question

[Got Em]

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I am planning to do a 1 or 2 year MBA between my 3rd and 4th year of med school (5 or 6 years total MD+MBA). I know that your LORs from 3 year clerkships mean a lot for residency, so I'm wondering I would be at a disadvantage if I have LORs from attendings on Interfolio 2 years prior.

If the Interfolio idea is not good, would you guys recommend for me to ask for the LOR 2 years after I've had the rotation so that it can be a more current date? Or maybe get the physician to re-date it?

I also wanted to say that this is not a debate on whether an MBA is worth it or not. Thanks.

 

[ArcGurren]

No. Letters from your 3rd and 4th year rotations/sub-Is OR people you have done research with as supplemental letters are what you should be submitting to ERAS. If I'm understanding properly you're talking about letters that you've gotten during your preclinical years - that won't be useful to programs, because they want to see letters discussing your clinical abilities.

You also don't have an idea of what specialty you want to do yet either so this is sort of premature.

 

[Got Em]

No. Letters from your 3rd and 4th year rotations/sub-Is OR people you have done research with as supplemental letters are what you should be submitting to ERAS. If I'm understanding properly you're talking about letters that you've gotten during your preclinical years - that won't be useful to programs, because they want to see letters discussing your clinical abilities.

You also don't have an idea of what specialty you want to do yet either so this is sort of premature.

Thank you for responding, but this does not address my question. I'm not talking about pre-clinical years at all. I'm talking about THIRD year clinicals, where these letters matter the most. If I do a 2 year MBA program between my 3rd and 4th year of med school, my letters will be 2 years older by the time that I apply to residency. Does this affect me negatively?

 

[notbobtrustme]

Why do you want to do an MBA...

 

[ArcGurren]

Thank you for responding, but this does not address my question. I'm not talking about pre-clinical years at all. I'm talking about THIRD year clinicals, where these letters matter the most. If I do a 2 year MBA program between my 3rd and 4th year of med school, my letters will be 2 years older by the time that I apply to residency. Does this affect me negatively?

Calm down ace, I misread the question. Either way, check with your dean's office whether they will even keep the letter that long. My school's dean's office doesn't want to deal with files of future applicants until they're actually applying, so it would be a moot point in that case. This also depends a lot upon the residency you want to pursue - if it's some sort of surgical subspecialty you'll need to do a bunch of sub-Is/aways anyway.