MD Color Blind Screening Residency

[XactoPencilSharpener]

I am colorblind. The residency to which I matched has a question asking about color blindness in the pre-employment physical. Is there anyway I could be disqualified from the position for this?

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[Dr G Oogle]

Don’t think so. What specialty ? A good friend of mine is a color blind general surgeon

 

[Chelsea FC]

LOlz came into this expecting something completely different

 

[XactoPencilSharpener]

Don’t think so. What specialty ? A good friend of mine is a color blind general surgeon

orthopedics

 

[Dr G Oogle]

You’ll be fine

 

[deleted889094]

I have a one-eyed, color-blind uncle who is a neurosurgeon. If they let him do it, you should be fine.

 

[sliceofbread136]

I am red green color blind and in peds. All red light reflexes look white to me. Why I’m not going into gen peds!! Only other specialty I see this mattering is pathology (I had such trouble with that eosin stain)

 

[Dantrolene FC]

Bone white. Blood gray.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

No, you can't be disqualified. If you could, they would have needed to disclose that information as part of the interview process.

 

[Dral]

I am red green color blind and in peds. All red light reflexes look white to me. Why I’m not going into gen peds!! Only other specialty I see this mattering is pathology (I had such trouble with that eosin stain)

I had a colorblind pathology colleague. He did admit he had to work a lot harder to see eosinophils.

 

[deleted393595]

I am colorblind. The residency to which I matched has a question asking about color blindness in the pre-employment physical. Is there anyway I could be disqualified from the position for this?

Martin Luther King was colorblind too. There's no way they should disqualify you from it

 

[OneTwoThreeFour]

Martin Luther King was colorblind too. There's no way they should disqualify you from it

...He was a different kind of doctor

 

[MSTP18]

I had a colorblind pathology colleague. He did admit he had to work a lot harder to see eosinophils.

One of my attendings simply cannot see the pink of Ziehl-Neelson stains (AFB). Has to go off size and morphology alone and then ask someone else to confirm it’s pink.