Reference letters for subspecialty medicine residency positions: are they valuable for decision-making? Results from a Canadian study

Table 3 Prevalence of each component of the 5-point composite endpoint across letter writers

		Letter writer			P value
		Non-program director home institution (n = 398)	Program director (n = 201)	Elective supervisor (n = 116)	P value
Any mention of	Nature of relationship	379	194	104	0.025
	Duration of relationship	323	181	82	< 0.0001
	ITER comments	7	153	2	< 0.0001
	Research involvement	220	139	61	0.002
	Area of improvement/ critique	23	36	3	< 0.0001

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