Urgent - Dress code

[PhakeDoc]

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One of the things I forgot to ask about/note during my interviews were the dress codes during call, and on non-call days, if dress is more casual, i.e., just a button down shirt instead of tie for guys.

If you could comment on any of the following programs:

Beth Israel Deaconess (Boston)
Case (prelim and neuro)
Vanderbilt (prelim is ties from 8-5, but I don't know about pgy2-4)
U Washington
OHSU (oregon, not ohio 😉 )

Thanks much!

 

[medsRus]

One of the things I forgot to ask about/note during my interviews were the dress codes during call, and on non-call days, if dress is more casual, i.e., just a button down shirt instead of tie for guys.

If you could comment on any of the following programs:

Beth Israel Deaconess (Boston)
Case (prelim and neuro)
Vanderbilt (prelim is ties from 8-5, but I don't know about pgy2-4)
U Washington
OHSU (oregon, not ohio 😉 )

Thanks much!

Wasn't Case just full of Lebanese residents?

 

[PhakeDoc]

Wasn't Case just full of Lebanese residents?

I'm not sure what that has to do with the price of tea in China. Incidentally, if I recall correctly, aren't you an IMG?

 

[medsRus]

I'm not sure what that has to do with the price of tea in China. Incidentally, if I recall correctly, aren't you an IMG?

Guess I'll fit in just right in Case then. LOL...

 

[neurochica]

I'm not sure what that has to do with the price of tea in China. Incidentally, if I recall correctly, aren't you an IMG?

LOL. that was actually very funny.

 

[Rogue Synapse]

OHSU: only accepted footwear is crocs from 5p-7a. bowties required with scrubs. for clinic, button-fly pants only.

 

[PhakeDoc]

I beginning to think you people thought I was joking with my original question...

 

[fowleri]

I wish ties would just go away... never to be seen in hospitals again! They are expensive, hugely uncomfortable and useless...

It's funny, while at the hospital I've seen the following scene happen so many times:

-A resident or attending is doing a PE very nicely, leans over the patient to listen to something or get a reflex while the doctor's tie drags all over the patient's chest, abdomen and feet. The rounding team is done, we thank the patient and as we leave the room we all religiously squirt cal-stat on our hands, even the ones who didn't even touch the patient, and we have a 100% sanitized team! or so we think...

-Next, we go to the next patient's room, the whole scene happens again, with the happy un-sanitized tie dragging all over the next patient... and so on.

The UK very intelligently have banned ties in hospitals (the UK as in Great Britain... not as in University of Kentucky)... I wish we did the same here!