I'm posting again today because I've identified an interesting problem. Some of the institution names are very long and complicated. Here's an example: University of North Carolina Hospitals and Clinics/UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. I talked to a bunch of people from this institution shortly after their name changed and they often forgot the "Eshelman School of Pharmacy" partly because it was new. This was an amusing joke to the offenders, but it is not taken the same way when someone from the outside messes things up.
The point I'm trying to make is that the people at these institutions will know the name of their facility intimately and will notice it immediately if you refer to it as a "Medical Center" when it is a "Hospital" or when you leave out "at Brooklyn," "at Stanford" or "& Trauma Center" at the end of the institution's name. Misspellings will also leave a negative impression. When in doubt, use the name from the ASHP residency database as that is the name they will use in PhORCAS and the Match. Include the whole lengthy drawn out name, even though it doesn't fit very well on the page. Leaving something out could offend the wrong person and you never know...
This advice applies to your letters of intent and attached letters used by your references.
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