Re: Regarding LORs
zoah2005 - 05-13-10 09:40

well i talked to some professors about lors today and they all said that u get a letter printed and write the text which is acceptable to international standards and then we will approve those letters , now can i use text from sample letters or its not allowed to do ?

Re: Regarding LORs
babbu5508 - 05-13-10 16:22

yeah...true...it would be g8 if someone provides format fo the LOR .. n i sppose adonis is the best person to do this..pls clear our doubts abt LOR's

Re: Regarding LORs
adonis123 - 05-14-10 08:27



Here is a sample LOR:

Name and Designation of
the LOR Writer.

AAMC ID :

Dear Program Director,

I am writing this letter to give my highest possible recommendation for Mr. Smith. I know Mr. Smith through his work in
my laboratory. Mr. Smith first approached me two years ago about the possibility of work in my laboratory for a summer. At our
first meeting I described the general outline of the project the he might work on. He asked good questions and appeared intelligent.
He then went to the library and found many papers on the subject and read them carefully. He did this independently - I did not ask
him to do this. I learned that he had done this at our second meeting, and I was quite impressed at his motivation and independence.
Mr. Smith obtained funding from a program at our University to work in the lab for a summer.
During that summer, Mr. Smith demonstrated the ability to work independently with great creativity and enthusiasm. He
also put in many long hours. He worked as hard as my best graduate student. I teamed Mr. Smith with another student to work on a
project involving testing of patients having shoulder pathology. The project included recruiting patients, testing patients using
biomechanical instrumentation, and data analysis. Mr. Smith excelled in each one of these areas. His interpersonal skills were
excellent. He 'schmoozed'� the clinical staff to facilitate recruitment of patients. He tested the patients professionally. Sometimes
this testing required long days due to the extensive setup and calibration of equipment each morning before the clinic began operation.
He stayed after the testing sessions to back up data, clean up the area, and start data processing programs to run overnight. He was
usually the first one in the lab in the morning and the last to leave in the evening.
The other student working with Mr. Smith commented favorably about working with Mr. Smith. He said the Mr. Smith got
along well with everyone, pulled his own weight on the project, and had the ability to compromise with other team members. One
incident illustrates this point. There is a staff member in an adjoining lab that is a rather prickly person who has had many problems
with students in the past. Mr. Smith had to interact with this staff person in order to get his project done. Mr. Smith was able to find
a common interest with this staff person, which was folk dancing, and build a rapport based on this mutual interest. At the end of the
summer the staff person noted what a pleasure it was to work with Mr. Smith.
Mr. Smith also volunteered to help others in the lab. One of the other students was doing a project on knee biomechanics,
and it required harvesting knees from the University's morgue. Mr. Smith volunteered to help harvest the knees on several occasions.
I asked the graduate student in charge of that project about Mr. Smith, and he commented that Mr. Smith has excellent dissection
skills.
I was especially taken by Mr. Smith's creative mind and independent work ethic. He continued to read the literature
independently and generate interesting hypotheses. We met about every other week, and at several meetings he presented papers and
information that was new to me. By the end of the summer he was introducing me to scientific papers that were directly relevant to
his study that I hadn't seen before. Mr. Smith also showed remarkable problem solving ability. Our instrumentation system began
having problems midway through his experiment. Mr. Smith spent a full weekend troubleshooting the system. He discovered there
was a loose wire in the A/D connection box.
Mr. Smith is going to be first author on a manuscript that he is preparing for publication. He followed through on his
promise to write the manuscript during his M2 year. Moreover, he handled the manuscript revisions and saw the manuscript through
to publication. This illustrates his high level of motivation.
In summary, Mr. Smith is clearly the best student I have worked with in the last 10 years. I would very much like him match
to our residency program. Even though I hope he stays here, I think he would be an outstanding asset to your program. I give him
my highest recommendation.
Sincerely,
Richard Hughes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Good Luck!

Re: Regarding LORs
zoah2005 - 05-14-10 08:45

and what about my questions adonis , can i use surgery lors for residency in medicine

Re: Regarding LORs
adonis123 - 05-14-10 09:13



As I have always maintained that one must use LORs from Internal Medicine faculty for IM ,and likewise for other specialties.
One shud at least have two LORs from the faculty of the specialty which one is applying to.
Good Luck!

Re: Regarding LORs
mtniharika - 05-16-10 23:48

thanks adonis

Re: Regarding LORs
zoah2005 - 05-18-10 09:35

thnx adonis , i have another question as usual :) , i wanna know about the system of uploading lors , i mean if i apply to surgery programs and medicine programs too , i will have to send separate lors for them or i can only send a total of 4 ? what i mean is how r lors sent for different specialties if someone is applying to multiple specialties , can surgery program directors see lors assigned for programs of internal medicine.

Re: Regarding LORs
adonis123 - 05-18-10 10:11



U can send as many LORs as u like to the ECFMG ERAS.But, u can only assign upto a maximum of four LORs to a program.
No, PDs r only able to view the LORs u have assigned to their particular program.
So, when u apply to programs u will assign the same specialty LORs for that program i.e., Medicine LORs for an IM program,etc.
Good Luck!