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what do med students wear at school?
Started by s1lver
You dress up for clinicals. In lecture it's jeans and t-shirts.
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You're way off... most med students I've seen wear nothing.
It makes for an interesting scene.
Its just like undergrad, just a lot more undergrad shirts/hoodies. People like to show off where they came from.
only the righteous can see their clothes duh
haha i like that idea. i better stock up on apparel
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.
you should wear shirts from a bunch of different schools just to throw people off
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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 🙂
hahahahahaha i actually loled at this
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...
When you become an MS3 or graduate, do they give you a longer scepter and longer more illustrious robes?
i think when you graduate you get that scepter rammed up your behind in the form of debt repayment.
That sounds less than fun, significantly less. Is that how the colorectal residents practice?
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 😛
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.
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I plan to be the cool guy with a popped collar.
you're cool, but you'll never be 4 popped collars cool.
sounds fun. get all the ivy league gear. lol
Somebody say popped collar?
Does any of this apply to medical snow-students? 😕
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.
Gryffindor? Slytherin? Do those count?
lol
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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
If someone was wearing a Bunker Hill Community College shirt, would anyone bother outing that person?
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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)
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 don't believe he/she ever said they were.
Pink ties are boss
i wear my beard out.
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? 😴
If you arent going to even get out of pajamas, why even come to school? stream lectures !
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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.
For clinical stuff like patient simulators or standardized patients, our dress code is business attire.
ah a fellow m*******.
What, are you 40 or do you go to a really uptight school?
lol
Scrubs?!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y8G4s1yxi0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y8G4s1yxi0
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.
I went through 6 years of college and never even thought once about buying school-brand related clothing.
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