Appearance is the first piece of information available that can powerfully influence perception. Credibility, which includes trust, has been shown to be impacted by a person’s somatotype. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine students and non-students perception of trust of a physician based on the physician’s somatotype. METHODS: A survey was administered to 1,631 students, faculty, and staff at a small Midwestern university using Formstack. Images of an endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph somatotype were displayed along with a 5-point Likert scale with 1 meaning “would not trust this physician” to 5 meaning “would completely trust this physician”. Participants were asked to select the answer that best correlated with the perceived trust they would have in a physician who had the somatotype shown. RESULTS: There were 1,631 emails sent with 333 (20%) responses collected. Of the 333 respondents, 189 (57%) were students and 144 (43%) were non-students (faculty and staff). Perceptions of trust were analyzed using a repeated measure ANOVA which determined there is a significant difference in rank order of the three somatotypes (p-value < .0001). A Tukey post-hoc test was then conducted to compare the three somatotypes. When comparing the means for endomorph (M = 2.7, SD = 1.1) and mesomorph (M = 3.8, SD = .7), the endomorph somatotype was ranked lower than the mesomorph somatotype (t = -19.756, p-value < .0001). When comparing the means for the endomorph and ectomorph (M = 3.6, SD = .9) somatotypes, the endomorph somatotype was ranked lower than the ectomorph somatotype (t = -15.583, p-value < .0001). Lastly, when comparing the mesomorph and ectomorph somatotypes, the mesomorph somatotype ranked higher than ectomorph somatotype (t = 4.173, p-value < .0001). CONCLUSION: This study indicated that both status groups (students and non-students) ranked the mesomorph somatotype as most trustworthy for a physician, the ectomorph somatotype as second most trust worthy for a physician, and the endomorph somatotype as least trustworthy for a physician. Further research is needed to determine the influencing factors of somatotype perceptions.