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Chapter
9 - Conduct, Professional Appearance and Clinic Attire
9-1. Conduct, Professional Appearance and Clinic Attire
Smoking is prohibited within 25 feet of the buildings on
the MCG campus.
- Professional Appearance.
The student body of the School of Dentistry of the
Medical College of Georgia realizes that proper dress and
appearance are necessary to maintain the image of the
profession. As professionals students are expected to
present a neat appearance for their patients. It is for
this reason that guidelines for appearance were
established. The highest standards of cleanliness, neatness
and personal hygiene must be maintained. Students who do
not comply with the dress code will be dismissed from the
clinic, and if there are repeated offenses they may be in
violation of the Code of Conduct.
- Only isolation gowns, solid colored scrubs or
clinic jackets distributed by the school may be worn in
clinic.
- Students may wear solid colored, clean scrubs
with socks and close-toed shoes. Clinic jackets are to be
worn over scrubs in clinic. White coats must be worn over
scrubs outside of the clinical areas. Printed fabric scrubs
are unacceptable.
- Open-toed shoes or sandals may not be worn
during clinical activities.
- Students must wear some combination of
full-length slacks, skirts, stockings and/or socks so that
legs, ankles and feet are not exposed. Torn clothes, even if
covered by a clinic jacket, are not acceptable.
- Golf-type shirts (with a collar) are acceptable
however short pants, jeans, short skirts, decorated or
colored T-shirts, tank tops and shirts that expose the
midriff are unacceptable even under clinic jackets. Clean,
white T-shirts may be worn under clinic jackets, but are
unacceptable alone.
- Isolation gowns may not be worn outside the
clinic facilities.
- Hair must be worn away from the face and out of
the field of operation. Beards must be out of the field of
operation.
- Clinical Jackets
In order to maintain this atmosphere the school provides
clinical jackets.
Each student will be issued five (5) clinic jackets.
It
is the student's responsibility to maintain them. If they
are lost, damaged or otherwise rendered unusable the student
is responsible for their replacement.
Clinic jackets should be worn in the Dental School
clinics and various off-campus dental clinical facilities.
Clinic jackets are not to be worn while eating nor outside
of these clinical areas.
They are to be worn zipped to the neck to cover street
clothes or scrubs during patient treatment. If a student’s
jacket gets splattered with blood during a procedure it
should be removed, sprayed with LPH, then placed in a bag
for laundering.
If a student has treated a patient with a known
infectious disease a disintegrating laundry bag may be
obtained from the third floor supply area to put the jacket
in for laundering.
The clinic jackets may be laundered at home or sent to
the school laundry. However, be aware that the laundry may
damage them, lose them or there may be a significant delay
in their return.
Students are required to change these jackets after 2
clinical periods or more frequently if they become visibly
soiled. A clinic period is a one-half-day session.
If a clinic jacket is soiled, stained, or otherwise does
not present a clean, neat professional appearance it must
change it before beginning patient treatment. Failure to do
so will result in dismissal from clinic that period.
Isolation gowns will be available for use during surgical
procedures. Return the isolation gowns to the dirty gown
cans immediately after use. These cans are conveniently
located in the following areas:
| One on the 1st Floor: |
Clinic 1 |
| Two on the 2nd Floor: |
The two wet labs in the
middle of clinics #3 - 6 and #10 - 13 |
| Two on the 3rd Floor: |
The old preclinical
classroom/lab and the room immediately |
The Medical College of Georgia
is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution.
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