Appropriate attire for surgery "on call"

[Deanis]

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So what is the appropriate attire for a night of trauma surgery as a student? I'm supposed to shadow a trauma surgeon tonight and am not really sure what to wear. She is suggesting I stay the night and try being "on call", so I can't see the utility of wearing "professional" attire (dress shoes, pants, and shirt). I'm hoping to wear some comfy runners especially if I might end up standing through a surgery.


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[VitaminH]

Scrubs are all you need

 

[psipsina]

Scrubs. Super comfy shoes. Hoodie/fleece if you tend to get cold easily (hospital call rooms are notoriously freezin).

 

[Jolie South]

Scrubs. Super comfy shoes. Hoodie/fleece if you tend to get cold easily (hospital call rooms are notoriously freezin).

This^ 👍

 

[ZagDoc]

Scrubs. Super comfy shoes. Hoodie/fleece if you tend to get cold easily (hospital call rooms are notoriously freezin).

Agreed + $10 for the caf.

 

[Deanis]

Thanks. I brought my runners and they are good for all the standing 🙂

Got to see two chest tubes so far and got to poke my finger in on one of them. Fingers crossed for another pneumothorax - the docs said the next one's mine!

 

[njbmd]

Wear what the trauma surgeon wears. I wouldn't wear any shoes with laces because body fluids tend to go to the floor. I stopped wearing laced shoes as a first year medical student when we did rotations in the Emergency Department. Believe me, you don't want "patient juice" on your shoe laces.

 

[Food]

Scrubs dude....that's surgery. Def. wear any comfortable shoes, and you can get those little shoe covers for them too, probably from the locker room.

 

[dbth77]

I usually wear a tuxedo with a top hat. Sometimes I throw in a monocle if i'm feeling fancy.

 

[phantomx87]

I usually wear a tuxedo with a top hat. Sometimes I throw in a monocle if i'm feeling fancy.

 

[Smurfette]

Any med student who wears scrubs with a monocle on call gets honors from me....

 

[Szent]

May I point all you medical students to this readily affordable monocle:

http://www.warbyparker.com/colonel-...bcbbc9862796c83a.e3eSc34OaxmTe34Pa38Ta3aKa3b0

 

[Friendly]

Smart pants if you a guy. A pleated skirt if you are a girl.

 

[45408]

I usually wear a tuxedo with a top hat. Sometimes I throw in a monocle if i'm feeling fancy.

Ba da da duh da da dum!

 

[seelee]

What ever you wear, make sure the attendings can see your thong when you bend over to pick stuff up.

 

[J1515]

Any med student who wears scrubs with a monocle on call gets honors from me....

+1. By far the best idea ever proposed on SDN.