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Dress Code for MS1 students?
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My daily dress will consist of the following: t-shirt, jeans/cargo pants, sandals/tennis shoes, and occasionally a hoodie.
Wear what you are comfortable in for lectures, what you don't care about for lab, and what everyone else wears for rounds/clinicals/preclinicals/whateveryourschooldoeswithpatientsforfirstyears.
Other than CCLCM, I don't know of any other allo school that has a dress code for situations where you won't be seeing patients/standardized patients... feel free to chime in if I'm wrong though!
Nothing at all...I like being the center of attention...
j/k...no dress code that I know of for lecture. I guess the norm...what everyone else has already said
No dress code here at all. You do have to wear a butt-ugly brown lab coat in gross lab, though.
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I've always wondered why people actually spent money to get class rings...
I think this is something that is more common in osteopathic medical schools. 2 of 3 schools I interviewed with had a dress code.
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It is. Sorry. Jostens is out to screw us all.
huhh?? CCLCM has a dress code?? details?
Class --> Whatever you want
Anatomy Lab --> Scrubs
Pre-clinical experiences --> Dress clothes and white coat
Special class days where they bring a patient to talk to you about their touchy-feely wonderful experience where a doctor changed their life --> dress clothes and white coat
Anatomy Lab --> Scrubs
Pre-clinical experiences --> Dress clothes and white coat
Special class days where they bring a patient to talk to you about their touchy-feely wonderful experience where a doctor changed their life --> dress clothes and white coat
I agreed with you in high school, but I don't have any jewelry and I really like the way our ring looks. Plus it was paid for as a gift so... no reason to turn it down.
UM Boca campus has a dress code.
UM Boca campus has a dress code.
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i vote no on the class ring ....i personally didn't buy one and if you have one wearing it every day would make you look like a huge tool.
I never bought mine or had any interest in wearing one. I never saw the point outside of a ring from one of the military academies, MIT, Harvard, or Texas A&M (for varying reasons).
That being said, I think a college ring is on a different level from a highschool letterman and don't see the big deal about wearing one. Now why you would want to expose something that bulky, valuable, and with some many cracks and crevices to anatomy lab and patient's orifices I'm not sure. 😛
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👍 Some preceptors [like mine] will, right or wrong, ask you not to wear your white coat when you see their patients.
Here ya go
lol, got my package in the mail.
Damn, I'm really glad I read this thread. I had been planning my wardrobe next year complete with scrubs for every day of the week, multiple white coats so I can wear it every day (all day) over my scrubs even if one gets dirty, my stethoscope with me at all times (should my services be needed), and then my highschool letterman over that on days of 80 degrees or below.
Umm... should I still get my personalized license plates "2HotDoc"???
I know Mayo students have to wear business professional (suit-ish) on clinic days. No dress code on non-clinic days.
Maybe... but be sure to walk to class. The longer the walk, the more opportunity for people to see you have a white coat on.
Maybe... but be sure to walk to class. The longer the walk, the more opportunity for people to see you have a white coat on.
And don't draw the line there. You should absolutely wear that coat to the grocery store, movie theater, gym, and out to bars (as long as smoking in bars is banned in your state). When people ask you casually how it's going, your stock answer is, "Fine, but I'm a little tired from saving lives all morning."
Jeans are a no-no. (But apparently girls can wear jeans...🙄)
Anytime you see patients for any reason you are going to want to wear your white coat.
I like to wear a tie to small groups and breakout sessions, but I wear polos to class.
Anytime you see patients for any reason you are going to want to wear your white coat.
I like to wear a tie to small groups and breakout sessions, but I wear polos to class.
Jeans every day, basically. Scrubs on anatomy lab days. Dress clothes (shirt and tie for guys) anytime your white coat is worn (all clinical and standardized patient experiences). Dress is even more casual on days that we only have small groups and no lecture. Techinically we're not supposed to wear sweats or baseball caps to lecture, but they both started showing up by mid-winter. None of the professors care.
It's basically business casual for class days. No jeans, t-shirts, flip-flops, sweats, pajamas, shorts, etc. As Law2Doc would say if he saw this thread, people who dress professionally are more likely to act professionally. That's the theory, anyway.
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