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This is a question more about ERAS than Neonatology itself, so if someone has a better idea on where to post this, let me know.
My partner and I are both residents in pediatrics, and she will be applying to Neonatology Fellowships this upcoming application cycle.
She has a LoR being written by the department (division) chair of neonatology at our hospital, who is a practicing attending that she has worked together with personally.
ERAS has a checkbox when creating an LoR entry about whether your letter comes from a department chair, which I know some programs require or prefer when applying. To my understanding, how this typically works is, assuming you haven't worked with the chair physician directly, the chair essentially co-signs the LoR, alongside the relevant attendings you worked with while rotating, so multiple docs sign the letter. But in her case - she worked directly with the chair, so it wouldn't be a group letter, but still a "personal" one. Does that make sense?
So, my question: Should she check the box and indicate the letter is from the Chair? I don't want her to miss out on having a chair letter in case a program she applies to ends up requiring this. But I also don't want her to mistakenly misrepresent the type of letter she's submitting (i.e., it's not from a department "group" - is that expected?) and get in trouble for that. My gut feeling is to have her check the box ("Yes, this is from the chair"), but want to make sure this wouldn't be an accident faux pas. Any thoughts?
My partner and I are both residents in pediatrics, and she will be applying to Neonatology Fellowships this upcoming application cycle.
She has a LoR being written by the department (division) chair of neonatology at our hospital, who is a practicing attending that she has worked together with personally.
ERAS has a checkbox when creating an LoR entry about whether your letter comes from a department chair, which I know some programs require or prefer when applying. To my understanding, how this typically works is, assuming you haven't worked with the chair physician directly, the chair essentially co-signs the LoR, alongside the relevant attendings you worked with while rotating, so multiple docs sign the letter. But in her case - she worked directly with the chair, so it wouldn't be a group letter, but still a "personal" one. Does that make sense?
So, my question: Should she check the box and indicate the letter is from the Chair? I don't want her to miss out on having a chair letter in case a program she applies to ends up requiring this. But I also don't want her to mistakenly misrepresent the type of letter she's submitting (i.e., it's not from a department "group" - is that expected?) and get in trouble for that. My gut feeling is to have her check the box ("Yes, this is from the chair"), but want to make sure this wouldn't be an accident faux pas. Any thoughts?