Can a med student have a mustache on Surgery?

[Cute_Boy_4_u_69]

I always admired old-school fighter pilots and surgeons for the badass mustache they sport, no matter how ridiculous it might look to others.

Would residents / fellows / attendings give a med student a bad eval for rocking a stache?

I might want to do gen surg btw

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[073116]

Are you 8 year old dude to ask this kind of questions? No one cares about your mustache, sexual preferences or orientation etc. There are still surgeons with facial hair. Residents, attendings, fellows - they don't really care what stache you rock lmao. Put a cape on it to comply with OR protocols/procedures and be quiet. I've seen a guy who thought nose hair was manly and he rocked his nose stach proudly lmao. You remind me of that guy.

 

[Cute_Boy_4_u_69]

Are you 8 year old dude to ask this kind of questions? No one cares about your mustache, sexual preferences or orientation etc. There are still surgeons with facial hair. Residents, attendings, fellows - they don't really care what stache you rock lmao. Put a cape on it to comply with OR protocols/procedures and be quiet. I've seen a guy who thought nose hair was manly and he rocked his nose stach proudly lmao. You remind me of that guy.

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[sovereign0]

Most schools include some kind of professionalism evaluation in their evals and grading. Your attendings/residents/fellows might consider a mustache to be unprofessional. There's no way to guess who will and who won't. Surgical specialties tend to run more conservatively so it's more likely to look bad there. But yes, people will absolutely mention an unprofessional mustache on an eval.

Having a mustache that -in your own words- looks ridiculous to others is probably going to look unprofessional. Not only to your evaluators, but possibly to your patients too.

The safe answer is to shave it. The risky answer is to not shave it. But I think you knew that already.

Also - please don't rock a porn stache on your OB/GYN rotation, it won't end well for you. Though it'd be totally hilarious to the rest of us.

 

[ASGD1983]

I don't know why, but to me it looks like a gay stache. I wouldn't wear that on any rotation, let alone surgery or OB/GYN.

 

[Mad Jack]

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