Email Signature Recommendation Letter Made Easy

Signed electronically recommendation letter

hello everyone and welcome back to the channel if you're applying to residency in the united states you need to have a nearest account in order to participate in the match and apply to different programs in today's video i'll take you through the creation of an eras account and how to request your letters of recommendation for your residency application i will leave the links for all the websites i'm showing in the description under the video i will start with the association of american medical colleges or aamc website which has valuable resources for residency applicants after you go on this website you will see sign into my eras and you can click on that which will take you to this screen and click on login or register for my eras if you already have an account with the aamc you can sign in using your username and password but if you don't have an account yet you can click on create an account you will be asked to provide information regarding your education email address your name last name make sure that this information is accurate and before you finalize the account you need your eras token if you're a u.s medical student you will get your ears talking usually from your medical school but if you're an international medical graduate you need to request your eras token from the esfmg so if we go to the esfmg website you can look here under register for eras and click on obtain residency token if you can see here it says that if you want to obtain a residency token you can go to the ec fmg oasis or my ecfmg mobile app i'll click on obtain residency token to show you the information available here but if you want to request the token you have to go to the oasis or the ecfmg mobile app i'll take you through the process of requesting the eras token through the oasis so if we go to the oasis website click on go to oasis sign in using your usmle or ec fmg identification number and also your password after you do that you will see the screen your contact information will be here so if your contact information are not up to date make sure to update that here then you can go to eras support services after you click on that you will see this screen and click on eras residency token after you click on er assistancy token you will receive disclosures and information regarding the eras token and then click on i accept the above disclosures and continue after you click on that you will be asked to confirm your contact information your citizenship and afterwards you will receive the option to pay for the residency token for this year the residency token was 145 so after you pay and click continue you will receive your eras residency token and you can copy paste the information available here in your eras account and after you do that you will create your eras account and you receive this dashboard screen there are several areas of the era's account that i will not cover in this video but i will talk about in future videos in this one i will talk about uploading your letters of recommendation so you can go click on the zero here upload button assign this places of recommendation and you'll receive this screen in order to request a letter of recommendation you can click on add new and then this screen will show up you can add the author name the person writing your letter of recommendation you can add their name here their title assistant professor associate professor professor slash their department so are they in internal medicine department of surgery department of orthopedics and the specialty to which this leader will be assigned one tip here if you're applying to different specialties and you want the same author to write you different letters for your different applications let's say you're applying to internal medicine and general surgery and you want the same author to write you two letters of recommendation you can type their name here the same author title and department and type your internal medicine and request another letter by adding a new request type the same information and type here for example general surgery if you're applying to a different specialty then you'll be asked if the letter author is a program director or department chair or none of the above so you have to choose one and then you'll be asked if you want to waive your right to view your letter of recommendation so that means if you don't want to see your letter of recommendation you click on yes if you want to see your letter of recommendation you click on no it's highly recommended that you waive your right to see the recommendation so you it's highly recommended that you choose yes after you click after you finish you can click on save and then you will have this check box near the authoring fair information here you will receive another id which you can also send to your letter author when they are writing the letter of recommendation so now you can click this check box here and click confirm you will have this drop down list where you can either choose download letter request or email at a request it's much more convenient to use the email option and after you click on that you will have the option to add the author email address and the request message this is standardized message but you can also change it if you wish to then you click on preview which will show you how the letter will appear from the author side that will bring us to the end of our video today if you like the video please subscribe to my channel and follow me on instagram and twitter assad thank you everyone for watching and see you in future videos