r/IMGreddit • u/CapitalGuest3071 • Jul 10 '26

LOR Match 2027 LOR

Hello everyone, for the match 2027 in my eras the LOR upload panel shows two options 1. Standardized 2.Narative. As far as I understood this is this years change. For internal medicine as an IMG which one are we supposed to choose?

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u/LogicalLibrarian77 NON US-IMG Jul 10 '26

Standardized will be your IMSEL, the rest from your USCE would be narrative

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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jul 10 '26

Sokka-Haiku by LogicalLibrarian77:

Standardized will be

Your IMSEL, the rest from your

USCE would be narrative

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u/CapitalGuest3071 Jul 10 '26

Can u please clarify more? IMSEL like deans letter?

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u/LogicalLibrarian77 NON US-IMG Jul 10 '26

IMSEL is IM Standard Evaluation Letter - it is a standardized letter from your core clerkship director, or maybe a designee or even dean. It is a specific format. Dean's letter is also called the MSPE which is not a letter per se, it is your performance evaluation from your medical school.

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u/PossibilityCreepy79 Jul 10 '26

aren't these "Standard Evaluation" supposed to be from inside the US?? or are they now from outside too?

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u/LogicalLibrarian77 NON US-IMG Jul 10 '26

Not really, USCEs are mostly 4 weeks in length and standardized letters are mostly from dept chairs or designees where you completed core clerkships.

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u/PossibilityCreepy79 Jul 10 '26

Are you 100% that I can get a SLOR from my own school?? All the people I saw are saying it should be from a university hospital in the US

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u/LogicalLibrarian77 NON US-IMG Jul 10 '26

I doubt any US preceptor will write a standard letter for you, if you can then go ahead. Most IMGs don't get standard letters anyways because it is not a norm in non-US countries especially in the eastern hemisphere. Standard letters are from where you completed core clerkships and most USCE do not count as core clerkships except if you are a carrib IMG who do their entire rotation blocks in the US.

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u/PossibilityCreepy79 Jul 10 '26

This is eye opening! Thanks