College of Chiropractic Intern’s Clinic Handbook

3.1.1 Dress Code

Clothing

The dress code was established to maintain a professional appearance of interns as they provide health care to the public. Examples of professional dress are as follows:

Women – dress, pants suit, or dress pants and blouse. Nylons or socks with dress shoes.

Men  collared shirt with dress pants and socks. Dress shoes.

Unacceptable clothing – yoga or athletic pants, tube tops, see-through blouses, mid-rift blouses/tops, bare stomach, back, legs, or feet, open toe shoes, jeans of any color.

General – all clothing is to be clean. Shirts, pants, and blouses are to be pressed or ironed (non-wrinkled). Pants with belt loops require a belt to be worn.

White Coats

T6 students, when functioning as an intern, are to wear white coats whenever in the DeRusha Clinic.

  • Interns will not be allowed to see patients without a white coat.
  • White coats must be clean and pressed
  • Nametags are required on the white coat.