Whom are you supposed to get a letter from after an AI?

[Trismegistus4]

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I just finished doing an acting internship and need to quickly get a letter out of it before November 1st. I thought I heard something at one point about how an AI was supposed to get you a chairman's letter or something, but I'm not sure. It would seem to make more sense to me to just ask the attending I worked with most during the AI. Whom did most people here get a letter from after doing their AI/sub-I?

 

[NotAProgDirector]

You get a letter from the person you worked with the most. If your dept writes a chair letter, they will include performance in the AI in that letter also, but you'd be best to have a dedicated letter from your AI faculty member.

 

[gstrub]

I worked with the Chair at Hopkins during my AI, but not more so that a few other attendings. The medical student adviser there suggested that I have all the clinical faculty I worked with shoot the chair an email, and have him write the LOR. So I did that and just got it out to programs. We'll see if it works...

 

[QofQuimica]

I just finished doing an acting internship and need to quickly get a letter out of it before November 1st. I thought I heard something at one point about how an AI was supposed to get you a chairman's letter or something, but I'm not sure. It would seem to make more sense to me to just ask the attending I worked with most during the AI. Whom did most people here get a letter from after doing their AI/sub-I?

I worked with a lot of people during my AI. What I did was make an appointment with the PD and give him all of my info: ERAS PS, CV, USMLE scores, evals. Then I met with him and went over my plans and goals, told him a little about myself, that kind of thing. I would guess that he did get input from the faculty and residents who were supervising me also, since they had written individual evals for me.

I'm sure it's fine if you get your attending to write your LOR. But the whole point of having a chairman or PD write your LOR is that they evaluate dozens, maybe hundreds, of med students for their program every year, and they can give a good sense of where you fit in among your peers. A single attending who maybe only sees a dozen students per year is not in as good of a position to compare you to your peers. Still, if he got to know you well and can speak to your abilities, then it can't hurt to have a letter like that.