This page outlines the training office policy regarding male trainees and beards / facial hair as it pertains to N-95 respirator fit-testing and airborne precautions. Please refer to the Vanderbilt Environmental Health Services (VEHS) information on this matter here:
http://www.safety.vanderbilt.edu/osha/respiratory-protection-standard.p…
The delineation of rotations will be as follows:
PGY-1:
Inpatient psychiatry: beard allowed
Outpatient medicine: beard allowed
Outpatient neurology: beard allowed
Inpatient internal medicine: need to be clean-shaven
Inpatient pediatrics: need to be clean-shaven
Inpatient neurology: need to be clean-shaven
Emergency medicine: need to be clean-shaven
PGY-2:
Inpatient psychiatry: beard allowed
Mental Health Cooperative: beard allowed
Adult consultation-liaison: need to be clean-shaven
Child/Adolescent consultation-liaison: need to be clean-shaven
Night float: need to be clean-shaven
Emergency psychiatric services: need to be clean-shaven