FEDERAL REPULIC OF NIIGERIA

DAVID UMAHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES

UBURU, EBONYI STATE NIGERIA
FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Dean:
Prof. Sam Chidi Ibeneme
BMRPT (Nig), M.Sc., PhD, FPPC (NEURO PT), FNSP

Our Ref. Date: 13th Dec, 2023

Vice Chancellor,
David Umahi University of Health Sciences
Uburu, Ebonyi State Nigeria.

Dear Sir,
FACULTY DRESSING CODES ACCORDING TO DEPARTMENTS

We submit herein the dressing codes for departments in our faculty as shown below.

We await the Vice Chancellor’s kind consideration and approval.

Sincerely,

Pro Sam Ibeneme

Dean

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 General dressing Codes: ALL clinical students must wear name tag and scrubs and their clinical coats
must have the university logo on the breast pocket. No wedding rings in the hospital posting.
Females Males
1. Black corporate cover shoes only 10. Fingernails must be trimmed and clean
2. Stuck earing 11. Black corporate shoes only
3. Short hair (No long hair) 12. Must wear ties when not on scrubs
4. No high-heeled shoes 13. No sandals
5. No mini skirts 14. No sneakers except for physiotherapy
6. No fixed nails clinical students on scrubs
7. Fingernails must be trimmed and clean 15. No leg chains nose, ear or fashion rings
8. No leg chains, nose or fashion rings 16. No coloured hair
9. No coloured hair

DEPARTMENTS 100 LEVEL PRE-CLINICAL CLINICAL 2ND POSTING IN THE

200-1ST SEMESTER HOSPITAL
SEMESTER 300 300-
LEVEL GRADUATION
1 NURSING Corporate attire – Males - White shirts Males - White For clinical
SCIENCE Males – trousers, with ties on navy shirts with round posting, all
shirts +ties+shoes blue trousers safari collar on students
navy blue irrespective of
Females – Females - White trousers gender should
Blouse+skirts tops on navy blue wear wine red
+gowns+cover trousers or white Females – white color scrubs and
shoes gowns with navy tops (with navy white crocs
blue trimmings at the blue stripes) on footwear
(no slippers or collar, pockets and navy blue
sandals or arm. trousers or white
sneakers) gowns with navy
blue trimmings at
the collar,
pockets and
arm.
2 PHYSIOTHERAPY Corporate attire – Males - White shirts Only scrubs Scrubs with clinical
Males – trousers, with ties on navy allowed coats (knee
shirts +ties+shoes blue trousers length)
Males - Ash
Females – Females - White round collar
Blouse+skirts tops on navy blue safari shirts on
+gowns+cover trousers or skirt black trousers
shoes with load
pockets+white
sneakers or
black shoes

Females - Ash
tops on black
trousers or skirts
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 with white
sneakers or
black cover
shoes

3 BIOMEDICAL Corporate attire – Males - Sky blue Males - Sky blue Workshop wears –
ENGINEERING Males – trousers, shirt (long or short shirt (long or Dress+black
shirts +ties+shoes sleeve), navy blue short sleeve), boot+white
neck tie (long or navy blue neck laboratory coat
Females - bow) on navy blue tie (long or bow)
Blouse+skirts trousers on navy blue *Males to wear
+gowns+cover trousers only bow ties
shoes Females- Sky blue
blouse (long or short Females- Sky
sleeve), on skirt, blue blouse (long
corporate shoes to or short sleeve),
match. on skirt,
corporate shoes
to match.
4 RADIOGRAPHY Corporate attire – Males - White shirts Only Scrub Scrubs with clinical
Males – trousers, with ties on navy coats (knee
shirts +ties+shoes blue trousers Males - Navy length)
blue shirt on
Females - Females - White Navy blue
Blouse+skirts tops on navy blue trousers
+gowns+cover trousers or skirt
shoes Females - Navy
blue tops on
Navy blue
trousers
5 OPTOMETRY Corporate attire – Males - White shirts Males - White White clinical coat
Males – trousers, on black trousers, shirts on white for practicals and
shirts +ties+shoes black tie and navy trousers, black clinical classes
blue corporate corporate shoes
Females - covered shoes, and black tie
Blouse+skirts
+gowns+cover Female - White Female - white
shoes shirts and navy blue custom-made
(knee length)/office blouses on white
pants and black straight skirts
corporate covered and black
shoes corporate
covered shoes.

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6 MED-LAB Corporate attire Males - White shirts LABORATORY LABORATORY
SCIENCE Males – trousers, on black trousers, DRESS; DRESS;
shirts +ties+shoes black tie and navy Lab coat (knee Lab coat (knee
blue corporate length) + black length) + black
Females - covered shoes, cover shoes with cover shoes with
Blouse+skirts name tag name tag affixed.
+gowns+cover Female - White affixed.
shoes shirts and navy blue
(knee length)/office
pants and black
corporate covered
shoes

CLINICAL DRESS CODES

PHYSIOTHERAPY
CLINICAL DRESS CODES 300 – 600 level

Fig. 1. Top for males Fig. 2. Top for females Fig. 3. Trouser with side pockets

Note: The colour is Ash top and black trouser or skirts. The trouser will have side pockets as shown
above
• The shade of ash for tops and shirst for all scrubs (clinical outfits) is that worn by the female in
the picture above.
• Only black shoes and white sneakers are acceptable as part of the dress codes for pre-clinical
and clinical students, respectively.
• Males should wear ties with their shirts during the pre-clinical phase.

MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES 200 – 500 level students

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 200 – 500 level students

RADIOGRAPHY

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 • Navy blue scrubs and white clinical coats (knee length) 300 – 500 level students

NURSING SCIENCES

Color: Classroom Wears for clinical students (300 – 500L) Hospital wears: Wine red Scrubs males/females
Wine and navy-blue