Do scrubs have to match?

[AStudent]

If I'm doing rounds or whatnot can I wear say - blue bottoms and a turquoise top?

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[Shredder]

it would look too unprofessional, i dont think anyone would allow it. it would undermine patients confidence. unless youre going for the patch adams approach. then you might as well don a big red nose as well.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

Isn't this something you worry about when you start rounds, say, two years from now?

 

[fpr85]

I have to wear teal and peach colored scrubbies

 

[Shredder]

Isn't this something you worry about when you start rounds, say, two years from now?

not necessarily, i shadowed in scrubs

 

[Supadupafly]

If I'm doing rounds or whatnot can I wear say - blue bottoms and a turquoise top?

It depends on which rounds you're doing. Most of them, you won't be wearing scrubs at all. Scrubs are more often worn by nurses, medical assistants, & other allied health workers. As a med student, you'll be wearing professional dress: shirt & tie, ect. In surgical rotations, you generally wear hospital issue scrubs, which aren't as pretty as those sequined & colorful ones you've seen in all of the nursing magazines.

In some other rotations you'll wear scrubs, possibly OB and a couple others. When you have the choice, I think they wont much care what color you look, but if you get too fancy, you're gonna look like a nurse.

It was funny last year because they had to have a special class session to tell MS1s to stop wearing scrubs & start dressing professionally to their precepting days. Students went completely crazy when they found they'd have to dress differently than on TV.