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Race and Gender Bias in Internal Medicine Program Director Letters of Recommendation.
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is Cardiology Fellowship Program Director and Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Background: While program director (PD) letters of recommendation (LOR) are subject to bias, especially against those underrepresented in medicine, these letters are one of the most important factors in fellowship selection. Bias manifests in LOR in a number of ways, including biased use of agentic and communal terms, doubt raising language, and description of career trajectory. To reduce bias, specialty organizations have recommended standardized PD LOR.
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J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
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Medicine (Emeritus), University of California, San Diego,La Jolla, CA, USA.
Standardized letters of recommendation (SLOR) have become common features of the medical school to residency transition. Research has shown many advantages over the narrative letter of recommendation including improved letter-writing efficiency, ease of interpretation, and improved reliability as performance predictors. Currently, at least four specialties require fellowship SLORs.
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AAIM Guidelines for Interview and Post-Interview Communication for Graduate Medical Education Recruitment.
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Associate Vice Chair for Medicine and Professor, University of California, San Diego; Associate Chief of Staff for Education, Veterans' Administration, San Diego, Calif. Electronic address:
Internal medicine fellowship directors' perspectives on the quality and utility of letters conforming to residency program director letter of recommendation guidelines.
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Department of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester Regional Health, Rochester, NY, USA.
: In May 2017, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) published guidelines intending to standardize and improve internal medicine residency program director (PD) letters of recommendation (LORs) for fellowship applicants. : This study aimed to examine fellowship PDs impressions of the new guidelines, letter writers' adherence to the guidelines, and the impact of LORs that conformed to guidelines compared to non-standardized letters. : The authors anonymously surveyed fellowship PDs from January to March 2018 to gather input about LORs submitted to their programs during the 2017 fellowship application cycle.
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