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Preclinical students dress about the same as undergrads. Clinical students don't. Whip out a white coat and slacks and/or scrubs depending on rotation.
it depends. some schools have dress codes for everywhere (though I can only think of one DO school that does that) but most have dress codes for anytime you have patient contact or are officially representing the school (ie not in lectures or lab etc)
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the only school i know of is nova......over there, they have to either dress up and wear white coats or wear scrubs.........i also think they have some rule that atleast once every week or every two weeks, they have to wear the white coat with nice clothes.....but definitley no jeans....
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yes, i've heard USHUS (sp?) has uniforms for the classroom. But that makes sense, since it is run by the armed services.
we do not have dress codes for lectures and small groups that do not involve patient presentations. any time that we encounter patients, we have to dress professionally. for our clinical class we have to wear professional attire when we interview patients and when we attend our preceptorships (unless they are in areas of medicine where the attire is different, i.e. the ED, some peds, etc). for the last few months or so, i feel like i have had to tuck in and wear a tie on an average of 2 days per week. This week it was three. I had a psych preceptorship where we met with a patient to interview them. we had a neuro preceptorship were we worked on our neuro exam with a couple patients in the hospital, and today i had to interview a patient in front of the class directors and 5 classmates. i don't mind wearing a shirt and tie, but that might be b/c i'm a bit older.
long story short: whatever you want on days when patients aren't involved, like physicians when they are.
hope that helps.
peace.
long story short: whatever you want on days when patients aren't involved, like physicians when they are.
hope that helps.
peace.
I heard that Georgetown asks that students dress professionally from day one of MSI. Not 100% sure if that's true, as I didn't interview there.
Personally, I like the idea of a dress code in medical school, or any professional school, for that matter. Hell, I think colleges should bring them back. Then again, my friends always say that I was born a few generations too late....
Personally, I like the idea of a dress code in medical school, or any professional school, for that matter. Hell, I think colleges should bring them back. Then again, my friends always say that I was born a few generations too late....
If you are a Year One, you are required to wear Medical School logo t-shirts/sweatshirts as often as possible so everyone knows you are a medical student. Oh, and if you are a guy, you have to wear scrubs in the undergraduate fitness center in order to attract women. Year Two, you need to look like you just rolled out of bed at all times, and NEVER wear any school logo clothing. Year Three and Four you have to wear whatever leftover slacks/skirts/ties you still own from your medical school interviews.
i did research over there and went to its undergrad...and unfortunately they are that "extreme" (like you for lack of a better word).,....i defintely know they must wear either dressy clotehs or scrubs....i'm not sure of the exact detials on the frequency of the dress clothes.....not just their med students, but their dental, optometry, PA, OT, PT and everything else they have runnig over at the health professions division............before my interviews i actually thought all schools were like this...haha...how stupid of me, i'm glad they aren to..
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