Suit advice for a med student.

[Tabris]

Originally Posted by pvrhye

When you become a doctor, go for a tie-less look. Ties kill people in the hospital and doctors who wear them are being irresponsible.
I wouldn't do that.

When we do rounds now, I'm just in a shirt and trousers if I'm not in scrubs.

Originally Posted by ginlimetonic

maybe he just watched Love and other drugs... he wants to wear a suit to a bar and pick up a hot drug sales rep named "Lisa"
This would be a bonus haha

 

[anginaprinzmetal]

Now how exactly would you kill somebody with a tie? Other than strangulation (you could use shoes strings for that matter), I have seen some pretty hideous ties in the hospital (and am talking horrible) but that and killing somebody...C'mon.
Now, if you mean by ties spreading germs, all I'm gonna say is just tuck your tie in your pants when examining a patient and wear a white coat.

 

[insolentpup]

Originally Posted by anginaprinzmetal

Now how exactly would you kill somebody with a tie? Other than strangulation (you could use shoes strings for that matter), I have seen some pretty hideous ties in the hospital (and am talking horrible) but that and killing somebody...C'mon.
Now, if you mean by ties spreading germs, all I'm gonna say is just tuck your tie in your pants when examining a patient and wear a white coat.

Or wear a tie clip!

Judging by your username, you're in the medical profession as well?

 

[chobochobo]

Hmm, when will you wear this suit? It can only be useful for interviews surely, as you will not really 'need' a suit for day to day clinical work.

Edit: ah never mind, I finally read the other replies...doh. Any dark suit that fits will be fine, fused or canvassed, it won't matter to anyone (except you) at this stage.

 

[mic]

Originally Posted by pvrhye

When you become a doctor, go for a tie-less look. Ties kill people in the hospital and doctors who wear them are being irresponsible.

A bow tie is charming -and unlikely to harbor MRSA.

 

[merkur]

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[TimelesStyle]

A doctor friend of mine wore bow ties often as a medical student. He said he was less likely to get that covered in blood or other bodily fluids in the ER and that it gave patients a laugh when they needed one. YMMV.

 

[cold war painter]

Originally Posted by anginaprinzmetal

Now how exactly would you kill somebody with a tie? Other than strangulation (you could use shoes strings for that matter), I have seen some pretty hideous ties in the hospital (and am talking horrible) but that and killing somebody...C'mon.
Now, if you mean by ties spreading germs, all I'm gonna say is just tuck your tie in your pants when examining a patient and wear a white coat.

NHS hospital dress code mandates no tie, bare below the elbows, as OP is well aware.

However, there's little compelling evidence for it as you've said. Most NHS "infection control" measures are a combination of common sense, best guess, knee-jerk reaction to negative press & empire-building, in varying amounts.

 

[urymoto]

be a total med douche and wear your scrubs all the time, including in the subway...

 

[Zach]

The white coats are much worse for bacterial spread than a tie. The coat goes from patient room to patient room and does a fair amount of touching. It's gross.

Also, uses for a suit while in medical school/residency: interviews, conferences, award banquets, etc. You can get by pretty well with a set of ties and button-up shirts, but a suit comes in handy every once in a great while.

 

[Exalt]

Originally Posted by merkur

Again, my medical mates tell me that no-one who's not a professor would ever dare to wear a bowtie in a hospital fwiw.

I think it depends on the institution. I've worn a bow tie on several occasions during rounds. No one hates me... yet.

As for needing suits in medical school... I've found I have worn my suit for research presentations, conferences, and will also wear one during residency interviews.

 

[hatguy]

dress code at mayo is suits/coats

Mayo dress code "” suits, ties, no ostentatious jewelry, conservative haircuts, no facial hair or earrings. Even the pharmacists at Saint Marys Hospital, a hospital within the Mayo Clinic system, wear coats and ties.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/about/bestofcare.html

 

[Zach]

Originally Posted by hatguy

dress code at mayo is suits/coats

Mayo dress code — suits, ties, no ostentatious jewelry, conservative haircuts, no facial hair or earrings. Even the pharmacists at Saint Marys Hospital, a hospital within the Mayo Clinic system, wear coats and ties.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/about/bestofcare.html

Mayo's dresscode blows. Have fun doing a bone marrow biopsy in a suit. Or draining a pleural effusion. Or doing a rectal exam. Or a pelvic exam. Or seeing patients with lice/scabies. Or...I could go on.

 

[anginaprinzmetal]

^Seriously... you wear a shirt and a tie with a white coat on top while seeing patients on the floor or in clinic. If you're gonna be doing a procedure were bodily fluid spillage is a possibility common sense dictates that you go get in scrubs, an M1 knows that. I wear slacks, shirt and tie for rounds and change in scrubs for procedures.

As to the NHS dress code I can't comment since I'm on the other side of the Atlantic, but sounds like a bunch of rules without a whole lot of evidence behind, kinda like JAHCO here.

So going back to the OP a dark grey suit, black captoe shoes, a conservative tie and a white/light blue shirt will go a long way. Once you are a successful attending you can indulge in all kinds of fancy clothes, just remember that mos of your colleagues are not SF members (I'm being polite here) and the vast majority of your patients don't want to see a doctor wearing all kinds of fancy clothes.

 

[hatguy]

^depends on your specialty and the degree of clinic work