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Temple university School of medicine welcomes the class of 2011 at white coat ceremony

The Temple University School of Medicine Class of 2011 recently celebrated their White Coat Ceremony, during which new medical students received their first white coat, symbolizing the beginning of their medical careers.

 

Mack Lipkin, MD, Professor of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine, delivered the keynote address. Lipkin is known as the innovator of the Lipkin model of psychosocial education, a widely accepted and used method of teaching the doctor-patient relationship and the medical interview to students, residents and practitioners.

 

The White Coat Ceremony has become common practice in U.S. medical schools.  The ceremony is a rite of passage for first-year medical students, designed to inculcate the values of professionalism, humanism, and compassionate patient care.  It is the official welcome to the medical profession and to the Temple family.

 

In the ceremony, students are "cloaked" in their first white coats in the presence of family members, friends and school faculty.  The program includes the taking of an oath based upon the 1948 Declaration of Geneva.

 

For more information on the Temple University School of Medicine White Coat Ceremony, please visit:

 

Student Affairs and Resources:  White Coat Ceremony

 

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By Eryn Jelesiewicz

dobeck@temple.edu

November 5, 2007