White Coat Ceremony

Ruth and George Farkas Auditorium
Friday, August 22, 2008
1:00pm - 3:00pm

The White Coat Ceremony signifies the end of Orientation and the beginning of your career as a medical student. This ceremony creates a psychological, intellectual, and ethical contract for the profession and promotes empathy in the practice of medicine from the very start of medical training. During the ceremony, you will be brought to the stage and “cloaked” in your first white coat by one of eight specially selected faculty members, in the presence of family, friends, and colleagues. Together as a class, you will take an oath similar to the Hippocratic oath, which stresses the primacy of the doctor-patient relationship and the importance of compassion in medicine.

**There is a limit of two tickets per student for guests to the Ceremony (Tickets are reserved when you register for Orientation).