General Surgery Letters of Recommendations Guidelines and Samples.
Two Samples LORs and 20 Must-mention or do key points to get interviews.
This booklet include two General Surgery Samples Letters of Recommendations for ERAS NRMP Residency match application including the 20 Guidelines must-mention key points for writing the LORs to increase your chance or your students and residents chances for interviews. You can use them as template to create your LORs.
This guide is dedicated to General Surgery faculty including chairmen of divisions and attendings who want to write a successful LOR or letter of reference for their students or residents applying to General Surgery residency. Also the applicants themselves can get this booklet if they were asked by their letter writers to help them writing the letter to save time as usually happens in a big group of applicants. The reason behind writing this guide is that we noticed that a great portion of applicants who fail to get interviews do so because of their LORs (2nd reason after Step 1 USMLE score). Most of the time their LORs look like mourning letters. This is either because the writers don’t have time and just want to be done with it or because the writers (especially the students and foreign graduates) don’t know the successful keys to mention so they can convince the program directors to invite their students to interviews.
So it’s all about writing a letter that is really appealing to the program director and interviewers. To achieve this goal and get the highest number of interviews for your applicant you need to write a well-rounded letter but you must pay attention that the seasoned object here is the applicant not the language. Yes, this is the trouble that the applicants who write the letter themselves and give it to their chairman to sign fall in. Too much terminology and sophisticated English will expose you and result in automatic rejection by the programs sent through ERAS. To get to the point, there must be a balance between the shaping of the applicant in the letter and the spices used to decorate the hero!
This booklet include 2 samples General Surgery LOR the 1st is from US Elective, Observership or AMG medical student rotation and the 2nd is from foreign (IMG) medical school rotation or residency training. These 2 letters are very typical to those matching applicants’ profiles. This booklet also contains the 20 guidelines questions and answers which you must use to formulate the letter. These guidelines as you will see in the booklet include but not limited to: addressing the letter, what is opening paragraphs, how many paragraphs, closing paragraph, signature, font and size, number of pages or characters, what must mention to get interviews, what not to mention to avoid rejections, etc. The information was collected over the past 15 years of our experience with AMGs and IMGs in the match from the top successful LORs and from program directors.
You can get these samples and guidelines from this link: General Surgery LORs guidelines and samples
