Medical College Dress Code

Students will be expected to be neat and clean. Since a high level of professional appearance is important in courses, such as those in­

volving field visits, and since clothing may be damaged by chemicals or laboratory compounds in certain laboratory courses, each course director will set standards for dress in classrooms, laboratories, and extramural assignments, with the understanding that reasonable stan­dards will be applied. Students will be informed of the dress code for these courses at the beginning of each course. For preclinical labora­tory courses that use the clinic from time to time, the dress standards for the clinic will be maintained.

Professional appearance should be maintained at all times by all students. Hair must be kept clean, neat, and out of the patient’s or ope­rator’s eyes. Although there is no restriction on hair length of students, long hair must be pinned up while in clinic. Nails should be kept clean and trimmed sufficiently to ensure efficient work and cleanliness. General attire:

Dresses, slacks, or jeans are acceptable (excluded are tie-dye jeans, jeans with holes or slits, and dirty or worn-out jeans). Shorts are not acceptable.

Casual or dress shirts (long or short sleeve), polo type shirts with collars, sweaters, and neat, clean, “designer” type sweat shirts are all acceptable. T-shirts are not acceptable.

Most varieties of footwear are acceptable as long as they are clean and presentable. Thorns are not acceptable. Socks or hosiery must be worn at all times.

Clinic attire:

Students must wear a long-sleeve gown/lab coat when they reason­ably anticipate that forearms will be splattered with blood or saliva. The gown/lab coat must prevent blood or saliva from reaching work clothes, street clothes or skin. If there is minimal or no risk of exposure

i<> blood or saliva, short-sleeve attire (such as a scrub top) is accept­able. An example of such a procedure would be an oral examination.

The school will provide long-sleeve gowns for students and will launder contaminated gowns. Street clothes or work clothes worn un­der gowns are not the responsibility of the institution to launder.

Scrubs. Students must wear scrub tops and pants as general clinic a 11 i re. Two sets of scrubs will be part of the student kit. Students will be responsible for laundering them. Scrubs should not be worn to or from school.

Gowns. Students must wear a long-sleeve gown provided in each clinic dispensary for those procedures in which splatter with blood or saliva is likely. Contaminated gowns must be turned in at the end of the clinic session in the container designated in each clinic. Gowns may be worn going from clinic to clinic/laboratory during patient care. Do not go to the Student Commons or leave the building for any reason with the gowns on.

' Read the text and be ready to discuss the following points.

1. Attendance of lectures in the Oxford Medical School.

2. The system of tutorials.

3. Assessment of students’ work.

4. The cost of studies.