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White Coat Ceremony
On Friday, August 21st, Columbia P&S officially will welcome the Class of 2013 at its 17th Arnold P. Gold Foundation White Coat Ceremony, an annual rite of passage for doctors-to-be to pledge a commitment to the compassionate practice of medicine. This event was initiated at P&S in 1993 and since has become tradition at more than 130 schools of medicine and osteopathy throughout the US, at Israel’s four medical schools, and in other countries.
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.
We cordially extend an invitation to you and your family to attend this memorable ceremony and a reception afterwards at 50 Haven Avenue, Bard Hall Basement with drinks and appetizers for students and their guests. Please submit the following information by Friday, July 25, 2009. The ceremony and event is business casual.
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