Health Professions Evaluation Letter

Clinical vantage, behavior-based evidence, named-profession fit, calibrated comparisons, and endorsement strength for CASPA, AADSAS, VMCAS, and PharmCAS references.

For writers of evaluation letters (references) for centralized health-professions applications: CASPA (physician assistant), ADEA AADSAS (dental), VMCAS (veterinary), and PharmCAS (pharmacy) - practicing clinicians, professors, and supervisors, or applicants drafting the letter their evaluator requested. Committee letters and packets are out of scope.

5 scored dimensionsScore range: 0–5Word count: 300–700

Scoring Dimensions

1Who You Are to the Candidate

2Incidents Instead of Adjectives

3The Profession, Not Just Health Care

4Comparisons That Can Be Checked

5The Endorsement and Its Strength

References

https://help.liaisonedu.com/CASPA_Applicant_Help_Center/Filling_Out_Your_CASPA_Application/CASPA_Supporting_Information/1_Evaluations https://paeaonline.org/resources/member-resources/caspa https://help.liaisonedu.com/ADEA_AADSAS_Applicant_Help_Center/Filling_Out_Your_ADEA_AADSAS_Application/Supporting_Information/01_Evaluations https://www.adea.org/docs/default-source/godental-documents/aadsas/dental-student-loe-guidelines.pdf https://help.liaisonedu.com/VMCAS_Applicant_Help_Center/Filling_Out_Your_VMCAS_Application/VMCAS_Supporting_Information/1_Evaluations https://www.aavmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Guidelines_Recommendation_Letter-Writers_V26_FINAL.pdf https://www.pharmcas.org/application-instructions/evaluations https://www.med.unc.edu/healthsciences/unc-pa/admissions/admissions-requirements/https://admissions.dental.ufl.edu/d-m-d/dmd-requirements/loe/https://vetmed.wsu.edu/education/dvm/apply/

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