Recommendation letter language for applicants selected to interview at integrated cardiothoracic surgery residency: A qualitative assessment by gender.

Lastly, we observed a nonsignificant trend suggesting that female applicants were more likely to seek at least 1 LOR from a female writer; however, the low overall percentage of letters authored by women (11%) limited subgroup analysis and indicates that the differences in LOR content observed cannot be attributed solely to the gender distribution of letter writers.

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