BEST PRACTICES IN WRITING LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION

Best Practices in Writing Letters of Recommendation Workshop

Description: Have you ever struggled to write a fitting LOR for a less-than-exceptional student, or to interpret what a writer really meant while reading a LOR for a residency applicant? This session will help you write an appropriate and descriptive letter of recommendation for any student by using a competency-based framework. 

Objectives:

1. Identify helpful and harmful characteristics in a letter of recommendation (LOR)

2. Describe the role of bias in writing LORs

3. Formulate elements of a concise, credible, contextual, concrete, and comparative LOR

4. Incorporate use of competency-based frameworks into LOR

Presenters:

Jeanne Cawse-Lucas, MD

Tomoko Sairenji, MD