Differences in international medical graduates' letters of recommendation by gender in pulmonary and critical care medicine: a cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

International Medical Graduates (IMGs) encounter barriers as they seek to match into fellowship programs in the United States (US). This study's objective is to determine if there are differences in letters of recommendation written for IMGs compared to U.S. Medical Graduates (USMGs) applying to pulmonary and critical care medicine (PCCM) fellowship programs.

Methods

All applications submitted to a PCCM fellowship program in 2021 were included in this study. The applicant demographics and accomplishments were mined from applications. The gender of letter writers was identified by the author's pronouns on professional websites. Word count and language differences in the letters were analyzed for each applicant using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LWIC2015)

SUBMITTER: Byrd KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9875522 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature