{"id":177376,"date":"2021-09-10T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/medical-student-censored-for-wearing-inappropriate-dress-to-exam-even-though-it-was-below-her-knees"},"modified":"2021-09-10T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:23:59","slug":"medical-student-censored-for-wearing-inappropriate-dress-to-exam-even-though-it-was-below-her-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/medical-student-censored-for-wearing-inappropriate-dress-to-exam-even-though-it-was-below-her-knees","title":{"rendered":"Medical student censored for wearing ‘inappropriate dress’ to exam – even though it was below her knees"},"content":{"rendered":"

A medical student has been left stunned after being told that her dress, which was comfortably knee-length, was “inappropriate”.In a viral tweet posted by @MedicGrandpa, they explained that their friend had completed a clinical medical exam with them, and been “yellow carded” by the examiner for wearing what they called a “short skirt”.They wrote: “A friend did their OSCE’s with me recently & got yellow carded for wearing a ‘short skirt’… could someone explain to me how it’s 2021 & medical schools are still pushing sexist notions of primness upon its female student cohort, for daring to display their ankles.”Posting a picture of the dress in question, it was clearly knee length, leaving many to describe the comments as “sexist”.In an update, the person who calls themselves The Graduate Medic on Twitter and who the incident had involved, explained that she had complained to Newcastle University about its decision, only to have it further reinforced.She explained: “Update: I complained to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A medical student has been left stunned after being told that her dress, which was comfortably knee-length, was “inappropriate”. In a viral tweet posted by @MedicGrandpa, they explained that their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[96,55],"class_list":["post-177376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-education","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}