Question about White Coat

[bluehighlighter]

Hey guys,
I need to get my white coat monogrammed (sp?) this week. My school doesn't get it done for us and it is up to the student. What do you guys have on your white coats? Is there a standard of some sort? I was thinking about putting this:

Name
Medical School Name
Medical Student?

What do ya think?😳

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[Eudjinn]

The interviews I went on had "Student Physician" rather than "Medical Student"

 

[TMP-SMX]

Just put your name. All the medical students look like idiots with their short coats. They will also know you by the confused look on your face.

 

[bluehighlighter]

Thanks for your replies!🙂

 

[not me]

Just don't get your year (ie name MS1) may sound like obvious but there is a kid in my class who has been walking around with MS1 on his coat for 4 years because he did that and then was too cheap to buy a new coat!
I think just your name and then whatever college/school of medicine is nice, you can leave that off if you have a patch which I think most places do.

 

[Drogba]

Just put your name. All the medical students look like idiots with their short coats. They will also know you by the confused look on your face.

Haha I'd never seen someone in a short white coat before so I decided to look them up since I hear people constantly talking about the way they look. They certainly make you look like a doofus.

 

[RugbyJC]

Haha I'd never seen someone in a short white coat before so I decided to look them up since I hear people constantly talking about the way they look. They certainly make you look like a doofus.

which is why mine always seems to be "missing" or "stained"

PS do you even need to embroider it? I totally never did that...probably would have just written it on with a sharpie anyway.

 

[mjl1717]

Just put your name. All the medical students look like idiots with their short coats. They will also know you by the confused look on your face.

Very funny!!

 

[TMP-SMX]

which is why mine always seems to be "missing" or "stained"

PS do you even need to embroider it? I totally never did that...probably would have just written it on with a sharpie anyway.

Not really. You are supposed to have a university ID on at all times anyway. Your name is just much easier to read on your coat than the small print of an ID.

 

[spicedmanna]

The interviews I went on had "Student Physician" rather than "Medical Student"

If you are going to use a title, medical student is better, in my opinion, because it's less confusing for patients. When patients hear student doctor, or student physician, they may miss the "student" part, and you definitely don't want to pass yourself off as anything other than what you are, a student.

I have nothing written or printed on my white coat. However, I have a school logo magnetic name tag that has my name, "medical student", the name of my school, and my class (year of graduation), or something of the like (I don't have it in front of me right now), printed on it in a fairly readable fashion. I usually wear the tag on my coat. On my anatomy lab coat, I wrote my name in using a sharpie; it might be good to have your name printed (monogrammed) on your anatomy coat, for identification purposes.

My school doesn't require that we monogram our coats, so I don't know what to recommend, OP. Your suggestion sounds fine to me. You may want to ask a current first year, or second year at your school what they did, or what the standard seems to be.

 

[DoctaJay]

At LLU all medical student badges and coats have "Student Physician" on there. I think that there are two types of patients, those who know that you are at the bottom of the barrel with the white coat and those who think that everyone wearing white in the hospital is a doctor.

 

[-Goose-]

I met a student doing his neurosurgery away rotation who had his name & school (a somewhat prestigious institution) embroidered on his white coat. For some reason, I thought it was a little weird.

 

[yobynaes]

Just don't get your year (ie name MS1) may sound like obvious but there is a kid in my class who has been walking around with MS1 on his coat for 4 years because he did that and then was too cheap to buy a new coat!

that's funny!!

 

[bluehighlighter]

Well it is not actually required at my school...Everyone just seems to pop up with their jacket all done up and I didn't wanna look like the one slacker of the class that didn't get it done 😎

 

[realgraverobber]

Eek, wouldn't want to show up without your gold-embroidered white coat! Why, that'd be so embarrassing you'd never get back into the social clique!

Could one take themself more seriously? Doubt it.

Make sure to wear your white coat everyday. Try not to fall asleep during the ceremony. Yawn.

 

[Law2Doc]

Hey guys,
I need to get my white coat monogrammed (sp?) this week. My school doesn't get it done for us and it is up to the student. What do you guys have on your white coats? Is there a standard of some sort? I was thinking about putting this:

Name
Medical School Name
Medical Student?

What do ya think?😳

Folks are always excited about the white coats, and want to get them custom embroidered etc. A few years down the road you are probably going to buy a plain white one with no school logo or writing from a uniform store to replace the fancy one that got unbleachably stained. There is no real need to go all out with monogramming. Most schools seem to use badges for names and not put the actual name on the coat. Plus that lets you borrow one in a pinch if you forget yours.

 

[gregsanders]

Hey all, need help with something. Does labcoats necessary have to be long sleeves, or are there different kinds with short sleeves. Is it determined by the different biosafety levels? Appreciate all answers 😀

 

[yaah]

Do you have to get it embroidered? Only one person in my entire class had their name embroidered on their white coat, and that was because it was a gift, I believe. Everyone else just had a school-issued nametag with our name and "medical student" underneath it.

I met a couple of med students with embroidered white coats, thought they were kind of silly looking.

You are going to burn or otherwise destroy your coat when you finish med school anyway, and you will probably learn to despise it. Do you really want your name associated with it?

If you don't know this, you will learn it: Being a med student in a hospital is not really a prestigious thing. Might want to just go with the flow.

 

[SocialistMD]

Well it is not actually required at my school...Everyone just seems to pop up with their jacket all done up and I didn't wanna look like the one slacker of the class that didn't get it done 😎

And if everyone jumped of a bridge...?