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The white coat ceremony (WCC) is a ritual in some schools of medicine and other health-related fields that marks the student's transition from the study of preclinical to clinical health sciences. At some schools, where students begin meeting patients early in their education, the white coat ceremony is held before the first year begins.
The white coat is one of the most visible symbols of the health care profession. At the ceremony, TTUHSC academic medical community members cloaked each of the 182 students with their first white ...
A white coat ceremony is a relatively new ritual that marks one's entrance into medical school and, more recently, into a number of health-related schools and professions. It originated at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine in 1989 [9] and involves a formal "robing" or "cloaking" in white lab coats.
Usually held in August, a new group of first-year medical students participate in the White Coat Ceremony each year. This event is a rite of passage for first-year medical students as they don their coats and take a Hippocratic oath affirming their commitment to the highest standards of ethics and patient care.
Jul. 24—Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine will hold a White Coat Ceremony at 2:30 p.m. July 26 at Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, 1300 ...
Dozens of incoming medical students walked out of their University of Michigan white coat ceremony Sunday when the keynote speaker — a doctor with anti-abortion views — was introduced.
Mayo medical students wear business attire (often referred to as "Mayo wear") instead of white coats in the clinic to convey professionalism and respect for patients. [33] Accordingly, there is no white coat ceremony —first-year students instead participate in a Commitment to Human Values ceremony in which they make their Physician's Pledge ...
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