Residents wearing university apparel?

[Nivens]

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[dabeags]

Super random, but is this weird? My s/o wants to order a bunch of gear to celebrate wherever I match, but for some reason I'm hesitant. Anything odd about residents wearing apparel from the university affiliated with their training program?

Not at all.

 

[Ray D. Ayshun]

Super random, but is this weird? My s/o wants to order a bunch of gear to celebrate wherever I match, but for some reason I'm hesitant. Anything odd about residents wearing apparel from the university affiliated with their training program?

im gonna do that for my s/o...and me

 

[cokebottle]

weird if hospital is just "affiliated"

 

[2010houston]

Not weird; residents where I am wear a variety of apparel from various institutions. Totally fine.

 

[Dodgers75]

WHAT?? I am planning on smothering myself with them clothes AND smother my SO with them as well (she did that to me with her gross Texas A&M gears).

Who cares? If some students say something, then I'll be like "You pay your own money to be here, but you know what?????? I get PAID to be here!!!"

 

[Siggy]

So, like the same thing except with university sweat shirts?

 

[Law2Doc]

Super random, but is this weird? My s/o wants to order a bunch of gear to celebrate wherever I match, but for some reason I'm hesitant. Anything odd about residents wearing apparel from the university affiliated with their training program?

Its fine ... It's very Dr 90210 though -- Dr Rey was always featured on the show with his Harvard coffee mug and sweats, and he only did his fellowship there. That being said if you want to show some institutional pride and pat yourself on the back, maybe take credit for a more prestigious pedigree than you had previously, where's the harm?

 

[killerleaf]

Things I have seen in the resident's lounge: apparel from current institution, their medical school, and undergrad...on the same person, at the same time. (three different schools....) People being teased about whatever school they are wearing that day. People not caring or noticing who has what on.

So do what suits you!

 

[Siggy]

Why would it be odd?

I probably wouldn't wear it to intern orientation, but other than that go for it. You're going to be spending 3-5 years there, and you're working for the institution.

Well, depending on the situation, it could be a bit of misinformation. Sure, I can claim that I graduated from Tufts School of Medicine... but that's because I completed the SMP program there and the SMP program is a program within the School of Medicine. Everyone is just going to assume that it was the MD program. [technically correct is the best kind of correct.jpg]

 

[galactus]

Dude wear what you want. I did residency at a conference rival from my undergrad, and you damn sure I wore my undergrad colors around the hospital on Fridays/ Saturday game day.
For fellowship--well I did sports medicine so I wore the Div I university swag literally every day 😎.

 

[Trogghunter]

I'm on wards wearing my Alma mater's colors now. my program and Alma mater are playing in the tourney.

 

[IlDestriero]

People tend to wear apparel from everywhere they were educated or trained. I have stuff from my faculty jobs as well.
I had Veritas tattooed across my back after I attended a weekend training at Harvard Medical School.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Its fine ... It's very Dr 90210 though -- Dr Rey was always featured on the show with his Harvard coffee mug and sweats, and he only did his fellowship there.

Wonder why he doesn't wear his Arizona State sweatshirt! 😛

 

[typhoonegator]

At the Harvard training hospitals, I have rarely seen people who didn't attend Harvard for undergrad or med school wearing Harvard gear. Kind of an interesting exception to what a lot of people here are saying. When I first started training, I expected a lot of people would jump on the Harvard bandwagon for some reflected glory. Then again, Harvard sports are fairly bad in the grand scheme, so it's not like you're doing residency at Ohio State where you can feel included in a new fan atmosphere.

 

[SLC]

I'm planning on rocking my undergrad's institution gear at residency, that's where my athletic allegiances are.

 

[WingedOx]

The only gear from my current institution is the T-shirt I scrambled to buy one day during intern year when I spilled chili all over my dress shirt and needed something to wear for the rest of the workday.

/I'd probably have more stuff though if we had better sports teams.