What color of scrubs are you wearing?

[osubum]

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I will be attending d-school this fall. Last year my sister (who has attended 2years of undergrad) informed me they are a system of classification; MDs, Nurses, DMD’s, Pharm Ds can only wear one color and they are all different from each other…I kept my mouth shut because I thought I should know about something as OBVIOUS as that. My info packet from school indicated I am allowed to wear any color I want as long as it is solid and of dark and medium hue (no pastels). Do they require MD students and nursing students to wear different scrubs?

 

[63768]

to my knowledge, no they don't require a specific color. each hospital usually has its own color anyway so it doesn't really matter.

 

[EBI831]

they're no specifics but some colors tend to be reserved for different fields ahem nurses. so, if you're school doesn't assign any and you show up with those scrubs w/ kittens and umbrellas and stuff you will probably be assumed to be a nurse (as i've been told). also, most outrageous colors are usually worn only by MAs, nurses, phlebotomists and all of that the doctors i shadowed informed me.

 

[Orthodoc40]

I believe that at Nova, they do in fact make different students wear a specified color of scrubs. It is the only school I have heard of that does this, and even then, you'll have to check to see if I am right about that.

 

[Ombatay]

Well, on TV, usually they have surgeons wearing green, medicine wearing blue, nurses wearing pink/magenta... I'm basing this on a show thats even named after scrubs, so it's gotta be true. 😛

 

[ZagDoc]

Well, on TV, usually they have surgeons wearing green, medicine wearing blue, nurses wearing pink/magenta... I'm basing this on a show thats even named after scrubs, so it's gotta be true. 😛

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[LifetimeDoc]

I will be attending d-school this fall. Last year my sister (who has attended 2years of undergrad) informed me they are a system of classification; MDs, Nurses, DMD’s, Pharm Ds can only wear one color and they are all different from each other…I kept my mouth shut because I thought I should know about something as OBVIOUS as that. My info packet from school indicated I am allowed to wear any color I want as long as it is solid and of dark and medium hue (no pastels). Do they require MD students and nursing students to wear different scrubs?

I assume they are referring to the scrubs you will wear during Gross Anatomy, no? If that is the case, you can wear whatever color you want. If you are going into a clinical setting, you will be wearing a white coat over whatever you are wearing.

 

[osubum]

What about in a hospital after school? I have been told MDs wear dark blue, nurses green, etc. Is/are there hospitals that do this? Which school/hospital does it? Thanks for the help

 

[osubum]

I assume they are referring to the scrubs you will wear during Gross Anatomy, no? If that is the case, you can wear whatever color you want. If you are going into a clinical setting, you will be wearing a white coat over whatever you are wearing.

Just scrubs in general (under your white coat). Apparently there is this strict rule everyone that has not attended a health program knows about...I am still uncertain which color I am.

 

[LifetimeDoc]

Just scrubs in general (under your white coat). Apparently there is this strict rule everyone that has not attended a health program knows about...I am still uncertain which color I am.

Well in that case it will be school or hospital specific as I've seen no particular rhyme or reason between hospitals. Each one seems to have their own set of standard colors, and even those change over time.

 

[musiclink213]

I believe that at Nova, they do in fact make different students wear a specified color of scrubs. It is the only school I have heard of that does this, and even then, you'll have to check to see if I am right about that.

That's true. I remember at my interview, med students wore blue I think, somebody else wore green, red, etc. Depending on which field you were studying, htey had different color scrubs.

 

[Orthodoc40]

OP- don't worry about it. When you need scrubs for the OR it is hospital specific. Until then, (unless you go to Nova, apparently,) it just won't matter. 😀

 

[angel80]

As an M1, the only time I wore scrubs was in the anatomy lab. Otherwise, you're pretty much in lectures all day and you can wear whatever you feel like wearing. For the few clinical encounters we had during the 1st two years of med school, we had to dress up and wear a white coat. In the hospital, you wear whatever color scrubs they give you.

 

[Blade28]

At most hospitals here all the residents wear the same colored-scrubs...the exception is our county hospital, where the surgical residents wear green and everyone else wears blue.

Note that the nurses have their own dress code - again, usually all white for hospitals here, except for a couple (where they tend to wear more flowery designs).

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

Working both in the medical and nursing field, nurses tend to be the more strict ones on scrub color. While I was a nursing aid, each unit had it's own "color" so you'd have medical units wear blue, telemetry was red, rehab/onco were green, ped's was "print top and white pants".

Doctors who wear scrubs tend to get them from their institution, so you'll usually all see them in the same color.

 

[Vano]

Hospital I volunteered at--in ER all nurses wear blue, doctors who wear scrubs also do blue, all techs wear green. Up on the floors I noticed most floors like cardio and ortho do those dark red/maroon ones. Diagnostic imaging personnel(the ones that wear scrubs) all do blue; Surg.techs also do blue. So I guess it's pretty hard to tell who's who in our hospital(judging by scrubs color). Not sure about my medschool yet.

 

[Tiger26]

just don't wear the ones with the flowers and $hit all over them🙂

 

[mildj275]

I am going to OHSU dental school this August as well. I asked Admissions and they said the same thing to me - just medium to dark, solid colors (no pastels or patterns). I talked to a few of my DS1 friends there and they said it doesnt matter. Students wear dark blue, black, medium blue... I am going to pick up dark blue and black before school starts. See you in August, good luck.

PS: Did you graduate from Oregon State?

 

[deleted77919]

If you are going into a clinical setting, you will be wearing a white coat over whatever you are wearing.

Not necessarily true. I am working in the ED this summer and wear only scrubs. In fact nearly everyone wears just scrubs. There's an RN who wears a long white coat, and maybe an attending or two, but that's it. In fact I observed there once and wore my white coat (not knowing any better) and looked way out of place.

I wear the color scrubs that come out of our scrub exchange machine. In this case that's blue.

 

[fakin' the funk]

I will be attending d-school this fall. Last year my sister (who has attended 2years of undergrad) informed me they are a system of classification; MDs, Nurses, DMD’s, Pharm Ds can only wear one color and they are all different from each other…I kept my mouth shut because I thought I should know about something as OBVIOUS as that. My info packet from school indicated I am allowed to wear any color I want as long as it is solid and of dark and medium hue (no pastels). Do they require MD students and nursing students to wear different scrubs?

why exactly do dental students need to wear scrubs?

 

[sunnysideOS]

I wear blue, dark blue, Caribbean blue, and emerald green. And sometimes when I feel like making an impression I wear some dress clothes.

why exactly do dental students need to wear scrubs?

because we do some pretty invasive procedures such as extractions and root canals. i hope that was a half-joke.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Just go blue. Blue always works.