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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.
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.
At the ceremony, TTUHSC academic medical community members cloaked each of the 182 students with their first white coat. Students also recited a class composed version of the ancient Oath of ...
The white coat ceremony is a rite of passage for the new class of medical students at the Texas Tech Foster School of Medicine in El Paso.
First-year medical students are given their white coats in an annual tradition to mark their first steps as a medical professional. [19] [20] The jacket is shorter than the long coats full-fledged doctors wear, to mark them as students until they earn their full degree.
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On August 18, 2017, the school held its white coat ceremony for the inaugural class of 60 students. The school uses a community-based model of medical education, training physicians for the first two years on the WSU Spokane campus, then distributing the class across four regional campuses located in: Everett, Spokane, Tri-Cities, and Vancouver.
Aug. 1—Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Permian Basin will hold a Physician Assistant White Coat ceremony at 6 p.m. Aug. 2 at Stonegate Fellowship, 6000 W. Wadley Ave., in Midland.