We don’t wear tie there each day. So, 3 quarter it is.
The reason given is “all of you are going to be a professional, so all of you will dress like one”, simple as that. Of course not everyone dress according to the code every single day, at least not in pharmacy course.
Did I ever make noise? Of course I did considering most formal clothes require ironing and I just couldn’t bear wearing one without ironing. All those wrinkles on the shirt need to be gone first.
So you will see all the guys wearing the similar shirt and the same trouser over and over again. After all, there isn’t much style going on when boys are required to wear formal.
Girls on the other hand would need to have formal clothes that should last for 2 weeks before repeating the same one. So, they certainly have more styles and of course headaches as well. Their clothes have to match their shoes, earrings, little cute handbags and the list goes on. It would be quite weird seeing one of the girls wearing the same thing each week.
Did clothes really leave an impression on people? I guess so. I could remember kar keet has 1 long sleeve apple green shirt. Pooi yee has a nice apple green and white stripe blouse and with some ribbon design in front and finally lina has one simple apple green blouse.
So, back to doctors and some of the arguments/interesting lines presented in the article talking about dress code and wearing a white lab coat.
“Although others have suggested that the white coat can be elite, distancing, and lead to default authority rather than earned trust.”
“Is there evidence to suggest that patients prefer doctors and, by extension, medical students to dress a particular way? In the limited literature available, patients seem to prefer that male doctors don’t wear earrings, jeans, or have long hair, and they dislike facial piercings on all doctors. They prefer semiformal to formal attire and, reassuringly perhaps, a smile is most valued. ”
“Most patients would surely prioritize her knowledge, skills, and conscientiousness over her clothes.”
“Professionalism requires acting in certain ways, and because many patients are sensitive to attire this includes wearing appropriate clothing. Sporting baggy jeans and a baseball cap at a clinic may be expressing your true self, but it is a failure of professionalism.”
“Even if I have to wear jacket and tie, I can still choose which jacket and tie to wear, for example. There remains some degree of freedom. Outside working hours, medics, pilots, lawyers, and other professionals can wear anything they want—or indeed nothing at all.”
“A scruffy person is less likely to be given the same camaraderie and warmth as a well dressed, washed, starched, pressed boardroom executive lookalike. This is only skin deep, however, and unless one has the necessary skills, being dressed to kill does just that, nothing more.”
“Our dress really matters and we shouldn’t forget that it shapes the first impression we make on the patient. A dress that is formal enough to show our respect to the patient and that denotes our identity is sufficient. No excess is needed.”
“A US study reported that 19% of white coats were contaminated with meticillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and 4% with meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)”
Taken from here and here. I don’t think any of you could access that but if you really want to read, I guess we could work this out.
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