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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 Ceremony is a special day for our new Class of 2028 medical students and a tradition celebrated by most medical schools across the nation,” DeToledo said.
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 ...
First-year medical students are placed into one of ten societies upon matriculation to the College of Osteopathic Medicine. [6] At the white coat ceremony prior to the beginning of the first medical school year, students are officially inducted or "pinned" into their society. Each society is overseen by a faculty member, who serves as an ...
The Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine has a distinct culture from that of most other medical schools. [32] 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]
Pritzker was the first medical school to hold the now international tradition of the white coat ceremony in 1989, which celebrates the students' transition and commitment to a lifelong career as a physician.