what do med students wear at school?

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I know, I know... it's a pretty dumb question. 😳 Is it still like in college where shorts/jeans + a shirt is OK? Or do you wear something more "formal" like long-sleeved button-down shirts?
 
You dress up for clinicals. In lecture it's jeans and t-shirts.
 
BlueElmo said:
The med students I've seen were all wearing robes, crowns on their heads, and carrying a scepter.
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You're way off... most med students I've seen wear nothing.

It makes for an interesting scene.
 
Crap, I must be a bad person.
 
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s1lver said:
I know, I know... it's a pretty dumb question. 😳 Is it still like in college where shorts/jeans + a shirt is OK? Or do you wear something more "formal" like long-sleeved button-down shirts?
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In class, you wear pretty much the same thing as you do in college (maybe slightly more formal if you go to a college where people wear PJs to class...). Whenever seeing patients, you wear your white coat. In clinics, you wear business clothes (nice pants, collared shirt and tie for men, nice shirt for women). In surgery or when on call/post-call, you get to wear scrubs 🙂
 
Pedie Packs said:
You're way off... most med students I've seen wear nothing.

It makes for an interesting scene.
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I like a good breeze just as much as the next guy, but I really feel lost without my scepter. Oh, and my cape made from baby seals. Delicious baby seals...
 
MilkmanAl said:
I like a good breeze just as much as the next guy, but I really feel lost without my scepter. Oh, and my cape made from baby seals. Delicious baby seals...
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When you become an MS3 or graduate, do they give you a longer scepter and longer more illustrious robes?
 
bleargh said:
i think when you graduate you get that scepter rammed up your behind in the form of debt repayment.
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That sounds less than fun, significantly less. Is that how the colorectal residents practice?
 
sustentacular said:
you should wear shirts from a bunch of different schools just to throw people off
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Oooo I like this idea... Then it could be like a game. See if you can figure out where your classmates really came from.
 
It's varied in the US but doesn't model Mexico so much. Scrub color in my experiences indicate role in the hospital. Nurses, physicians, and auxillary health team members all wear different scrubs. Scrubs aren't required on some services so you wear dress clothes in return.
 
Some of us wear a uniform but it's for a different reason.

One of the things I like about it is not worrying about what I want to wear when I get up in the morning - I'm told what to wear, so I just roll outta bed and put it on 😛
 
I plan to be the cool guy with a popped collar.

popped-collar.jpg
 
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Khaki and a polo to class... Dress attire for physical diagnosis.
 
fahimaz7 said:
Khaki and a polo to class... Dress attire for physical diagnosis.
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Khakis and a polo are not considered "dress attire."

Bac Si said:
sounds fun. get all the ivy league gear. lol
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Wait until someone asks you which residential college you stayed in while at Yale. You'll be outed as the impostor that you are.
 
notoriousmoops said:
Khakis and a polo are not considered "dress attire."



If you want to be an impostor... Wait until someone asks you which house you stayed in while at Yale. You'll be outed as the impostor that you are.
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Gryffindor? Slytherin? Do those count?
 
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notoriousmoops said:
Khakis and a polo are not considered "dress attire."



Wait until someone asks you which residential college you stayed in while at Yale. You'll be outed as the impostor that you are.
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I'll just reply, "i didn't go to yale" beside they shouldn't assume I went to a particular college just because their the clothing. I could just like to support them. It's like assuming someone is a cop for wearing a cop t-shirt, etc etc
 
notoriousmoops said:
Khakis and a polo are not considered "dress attire."



Wait until someone asks you which residential college you stayed in while at Yale. You'll be outed as the impostor that you are.
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If someone was wearing a Bunker Hill Community College shirt, would anyone bother outing that person?
 
When I was in college I went to tons of sga conferences and we'd always swap shirts with other ppl. I walked in class yesterday and my professor stops talking and says "where the heck did you get a North Dakota State shirt?" (I attend school in Arkansas)
 
MilkmanAl said:
If I recall, when we met, I was in an undershirt and gym shorts, one of my friends was in business casual, and another was in club clothes, more or less. That was interesting.
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...and IIRC I was wearing a suit with the forbidden pink tie of doom.
 
I wannabe a doc said:
i wear my beard out.
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Lol, are u twelve for real?

To the OP's question: I can see myself wearing pajamas to lecture each day if I were in med school. Why not make yourself comfortable when you have to sit there for hours? 😴
 
bamagurl14 said:
Lol, are u twelve for real?

To the OP's question: I can see myself wearing pajamas to lecture each day if I were in med school. Why not make yourself comfortable when you have to sit there for hours? 😴
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If you arent going to even get out of pajamas, why even come to school? stream lectures !:idea:
 
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Jeans, scrubs, etc. People usually wear a sweatshirt over their scrubs if there's anatomy lab that day and some just wear scrubs every day. They're much more comfortable than jeans.

For clinical stuff like patient simulators or standardized patients, our dress code is business attire.
 
I wear sweats and sweatshirts and basketball shorts to class. Occasionally I will wear jeans and if I have to dress up then I will.
 
Zona Pellucida said:
I don't own one sweatshirt/T-shirt/sweatpants/keychain/etc. from my undergrad.

Guess I will be the weirdo who doesn't wear school apparel if I matriculate anywhere.
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Crazy...I thought it was impossible to go through 4 years of undergrad without accumulating a sizable t-shirt/sweatshirt collection. I'd say on any given day more than half the people at my college are wearing some sort of school-related attire, more so on football weekends.
 
Whatever the hell you want unless you're in clinic.
 
Shellzie2010 said:
Crazy...I thought it was impossible to go through 4 years of undergrad without accumulating a sizable t-shirt/sweatshirt collection. I'd say on any given day more than half the people at my college are wearing some sort of school-related attire, more so on football weekends.
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I went through 6 years of college and never even thought once about buying school-brand related clothing.
 
Shants. Half shorts and half pants, the best of both worlds.
 
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