All Posts: White Coat Ceremony
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Hundreds Gather for School of Medicine Class of 2028 White Coat Ceremony
Hundreds of family and friends gathered to celebrate a time-honored tradition in medicine: the annual White Coat Ceremony. This year, 203 students from the School of Medicine Class of 2028 received their short white coats — a symbolic milestone marking their entry into the health professions.
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School of Medicine Class of 2027 Encouraged To Be Advocates For Their Patients During White Coat Ceremony
The School of Medicine Class of 2027, family and friends gathered in Gaston Hall to don their white coats for the first time, commencing the start of their medical education.
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At the White Coat Ceremony, Medical Students Urged to Prioritize Their Patients
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White Coat and Physicianship Ceremony Honors Class of 2024
(March 20, 2022) — When the School of Medicine Class of 2024 started at Georgetown in August 2020, their White Coat Ceremony was held via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 18, as they prepared to start their clinical education, the medical students belatedly celebrated the occasion in person with friends and family. […]
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Families Offer Congratulations in Video Messages to the SOM Class of 2025
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School of Medicine Class of 2025 Receives Warm Welcome at White Coat Ceremony
(August 8, 2021) — When she received her white coat as a medical student at Georgetown 22 years ago, Michelle Roett, MD (M’03), MPH, professor and chair in the Department of Family Medicine and director of DC Area Health Education Center (AHEC), dreamed of serving patients in need. “On that day, 22 years ago, I […]
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Virtual White Coat Ceremony Welcomes School of Medicine Class of 2024
(August 22, 2020) — Despite the virtual setting for their White Coat Ceremony, the School of Medicine warmly welcomed the Class of 2024 as they donned their white coats and recited the Hippocratic Oath together for the first time. (Watch the full White Coat Ceremony.) “Members of the Class of 2024, as you take the […]
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School of Medicine Class of 2023 Takes First Step in Medical Career
(August 4, 2019) — In front of loved ones and friends who made up a standing room-only crowd in Gaston Hall, the Georgetown University School of Medicine Class of 2023 took its first step toward joining the medical profession by donning their white coats, collecting their stethoscopes and reciting the Hippocratic Oath. The 203 classmates […]
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Inspiring GEMS to Shine
(August 2, 2019) — After walking across the stage and introducing themselves to attendees, incoming students at the School of Medicine White Coat Ceremony often state the name of the medical doctor who will give them their first white coat, welcoming them to the profession of medicine. At this year’s ceremony and others recently, several […]
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Class of 2020 Begins Its Journey In Medicine
(August 8, 2016) — They come from 31 states and nine countries including Canada, Korea, China, Ethiopia, Israel, Japan, Jamaica and Zimbabwe. Some come from the U.S. military. And others come from a long tradition of medicine. No matter the path they were on, the 196 students that make up the Georgetown University School of […]
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