So a modest, knee+ length dress that covers her shoulders and is not cut in any way to be revealing is inappropriate? My jaw is on the floor. WTF

What are they harping on about?? Female consultants wear dresses EXACTLY like that to work in a hospital every day!

Bitches were jealous that she had such a nice fitted dress, failed her for it.

Dress like a nun, yuou have a chance in medicine. And that even if your bosses are women. The dress is business casual, she'd have a white coat on over it, and it's not uncommon for women to wear something other than nun-habits or trousers if they're the clinician and not in surgery. Three piece suits for women also get penalized (too offputting, as I was told). Sad to see med school hasn't changed in 25 years. *sigh*

There's a shortage of medical staff. I wonder why...?

This makes no sense. Obviously the dress pictured is fine. Is there a different dress? More to this story? Was it really some weird role-playing scenerio (don;t understand how, exactly.)

Must be fake story

We really need to get rid of such nonsense where people can get their future jeopardised for the appearance of actually decent looking clothing. She clearly was not deliberately dressing in a way with the intention to look 'inappropriate', so she should not be blamed.

I once had a director ask me to only wear pants to work. Dress code is business attire. Never wore short skirts, or skirts/dresses without tights/leggings. I’ve always been shapely. I need to hide my body so you can control yourself? The lengths people go to blame others for their lack of self control.

I've been treated by so many sh*t doctors in "expensive" suits in my life that she could be wearing a bikini for all I care, as long as I get good treatment.

If this dress in the photo is "the most inappropriate dress they've ever seen", I suppose, they didn't see a lot of dresses in their life. It's black, it covers knees and shoulders, very modest cleavage, it doesn't have any obscene images or text written on it. I fail to see anything remotely inappropriate in this dress.

Sometimes certain clothing is required, because circumstances of the profession demand it. In reference to 'Robert Falls' above, yes that dress might not be appropriate attire for someone interviewing to be an auto mechanic, construction foreman, an EMT, or another profession where protective attire is required for the work. Other times clothing is simply whatever we have chosen to wear. In a professional capacity anything which is clean and tidy (presents well) is appropriate, and this dress absolutely presents well for an interview. There is also a huge difference between 'atypical' and 'unacceptable.'

Blatant discrimination. It appears the school is located in a country that seems to believe it is still in the 19th century.

The only problem I can see is that it is form fitting. To a man or insecure woman it would be seen as sexy just for that reason.

so what IS appropriate then? inconvenient and getting-in-the-way ankle length dress with long sleeves and a turtleneck?

Definitely says more about the examiners, than about the student. My doctor a couple of weeks ago wore an identical dress. Should I tell her next visit that is the most inappropriate dress I have ever seen? She seemed to examine me properly. I would suggest that if examiners are so worried about such things, then they are definitely in the wrong job. Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who fail miserably, examine."

Robert Falls u r a joke! actually, a bloody damn foo!! Go find some cranky old geezer that thinks like you and leave female Dr.s to take care of those of us who want excellent medical care. u stick with your antiquated ideas and your old geezers in their high water waist high pants held up by suspenders! Bloody men these days!!!

So it wasn't the school that made the comment but rather the role playing patient?

Why don't med schools, teach medicine because as you can see by this post it depends on who teaches remember garbage in garbage out! Why is it mostly the women who are called on this - there was nothing wrong with this dress and don't med students usually wear a lab coat over their street clothes. Wonderful how the university started to kiss ass when objections were raised - that there was nothing wrong with her clothing! So if doctors can be called out for their dress I got one for you - one doctor I saw came in the exam room looking like he just plowed the back forth using a mule and didn't have a mask was he called out for that - big NOPE!

i hate dresses, they are uncomfortable and stupid and should be banned for men and women alike. if this was a male wearing shorts would it have been inappropriate? yes. we should all have been issued our silver jumpsuits 21 years ago with our flying cars anyway.

I can't get past "bloody women these days"!

IMAGINE IF SHE WORE A THANKTOP! such inapropriate behaviour of a woman who should be nurse instead of doctor anyway! ....a male patient would just fall instantly in a comatose state because of her inappropriate dress and lack of blood supply to his brain due to all of it flowing down to his lower limbs... Ducking hell man! what's wrong with your baby child brains 13 to 16 years old teens think like that about women NOT adult men!

In days gone by the medical profession was biased against women and it obviously hasn't changed.

Quite interesting that this is considered the most inappropriate because this dress is about the similar length nurses were having as an outfit a few decades back. It is probably some old man hating the idea that women can be doctors too.

"showing her ankles" . . . . . When did we reintroduce the late 1800s? It's blinding obvious that the young Lass has a 1940s aesthetic going on what with the hair style and very period dress style: she looks absolutely fine. Hell, I wore nursing pajamas at work ( scrubs) and some doctors wore what was essentially dress for attending theatre, the stage one, and I'm not kidding: one doctor wore gorgeous outfits that Grace Kelly would die for. I would seriously question the motives of anyone saying this outfit is inappropriate.

I’ve seen plenty of MD’s wearing above the knee dresses or skirts with no stockings. They look great and no one cares. Turns out you can treat patients and have your bare legs showing.

I was reading back through her twitter feed and I have a question that’s totally unrelated: why is a young woman getting botox? And why is a young medical professional unsure if she’s got Botox side effects or Covid? Totally unrelated to the bizarre behaviour from her examiners, just something I was idly curious about.

That dress is extremely modest

At first I thought that maybe the exam was an autopsy (so full body protective clothes may be required? idk), but then I read on that it was the patient that complained...

why dont rhey just meander back into the 1800s where their professional dress etiquette would be much more appropriate. infuriating. i certainly dont want to be treated by someone who has a moral compass from the 1800s.

Wow, I have a dress very similar to that one. I wore it for my graduation and for funerals, but apparently it's incredibly inappropriate!

I see nothing but a tasteful dress. People need to chill

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I can say I would not want a doctor who dressed like that. But if that's the way she wishes to dress so be it, should not be reprimanded. but don't get mad when patients request another doctor.

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Men are 100% at fault for how f****d up this world is on ALL levels.

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Take a friend in who is a plumber or mechanic, preferably female, dressed to the nines. Ask them who they would prefer to be treated by and if they say "Your friend" tell them that they are idiots because the closest to medical skill your friend has is they once put a plaster on. In the meantime, escalate this and keep escalating until you get to someone whose head is not up their own a*s and choking on fumes from the 1880's

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When you want to join an organization it behooves you to know what the dress code is. It's not the time to bend the rules. Not doing your homework is enough to say no admittance IMHO