VIRMP Ref Letters

[Katalinay]

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Hi all,

I'm wondering about ref letters for the Match. I'm trying to march for a small animal rotating to pursue a internal medicine residency. I have one internist at my school that offered to write me a strong letter of recommendation, which I of course accepted. I think that another one could also write me a strong letter. Is it wrong to ask two internists? There are other people that would write me strong letters but I'm not sure what the etiquette is.

Thanks

 

[VIN-Foundation]

The most important thing is to get great letters. Having two from internists is OK.

 

[TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo]

For a rotating it’s ideal to have letters from some of the “big” specialties. So IM, surgery, ECC, possibly anesthesia.

When I was evaluating internship applicants for us we really wanted an ECC (our program had a pretty busy/intense ER), but at least some IM/Sx. Applicants who only had ancillary specialties were considered a red flag, as were applicants where every single letter was from the same specialty. That being said, we had a number of IM-focused applicants with multiple IM letters and that was fine as long as they also had 1-2 letters from a different speciality.

For internship I had an ECC letter, 2 IM letters, and Sx letter. For residency I had 3 ECC letter and an IM letter.