“Dear Program Director”: An Analysis of Gender Bias in Internal Medicine Letters of Recommendation from 2009 and 2019
Abstract Purpose The majority of United States Internal Medicine (IM) programs use letters of recommendation (LOR) as part of their holistic review of applicants in the residency selection process. It is important to determine if there are gender differences in IM LOR for frequency of agentic (e.g., assertive, confident) and communal (e.g., compassionate, kind) descriptors. …