Satisfactory physician Letter from ER?

[tmandudeguy]

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Ok so Im waiting for secondaries to hopefully arrive and for my shadowing experience I am in this ER program where I both volunteer and shadow in the ER. Its been a wonderful experience. However, the shadowing is a little informal but logged. Ive shadowed atleast half a dozen doctors and a couple of DOs. However the person who writes the letter is the MD responsible for creating the program. She writes about my volunteering and shadowing. However I did not shadow her. Rather she vouches for my experience and writes on behalf of logs I write from each shadowing experience. I have about 40. Do you think this is ok? I did not shadow this person writing the letter. However she knows me and writes about the several doctors Ive shadowed. Its a bit of weird predicament

 

[bionerd89]

Ok so Im waiting for secondaries to hopefully arrive and for my shadowing experience I am in this ER program where I both volunteer and shadow in the ER. Its been a wonderful experience. However, the shadowing is a little informal but logged. Ive shadowed atleast half a dozen doctors and a couple of DOs. However the person who writes the letter is the MD responsible for creating the program. She writes about my volunteering and shadowing. However I did not shadow her. Rather she vouches for my experience and writes on behalf of logs I write from each shadowing experience. I have about 40. Do you think this is ok? I did not shadow this person writing the letter. However she knows me and writes about the several doctors Ive shadowed. Its a bit of weird predicament

I think its fine as long as the doctor has enough information about you to write you a solid letter. Med schools don't specify whether or not the physician LOR has to be from someone you shadow. I am planning to get a DO LOR from a DO that I only met once at a coffee shop just to fulfill my DO LOR requirement at one of the schools.

 

[tmandudeguy]

lets hope it works out for the both of us!

 

[bionerd89]

lets hope it works out for the both of us!

I hope so too..do you already have a DO LOR or are you planning on getting one?

 

[Doctor Bob]

This sort of thing is pretty common from the ED. Even for medical students who rotate through an ED it's common to get a composite letter. Unlike a doc's office where you work with the same person every day, you can work in an ED over and over and over and not work with the same person.

In short- composite letters from an ED are normal.

 

[tmandudeguy]

awesome! Thanks doctor bob! Also I am trying to get a DO specific letter as well. I will try to shadow one next month. otherwise the ED composite will have to suffice with the brief DOs I shadowed in between