Back To School: P&S Welcomes Class Of 2008 With Upcoming White Coat Ceremony
Back To School!
Incoming Class Receives White Medical Coats and Recites Hippocratic Oath for First Time
WHAT: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) will welcome the class of 2008 at its annual White Coat Ceremony. The approximately 150-member incoming class will be presented with their first white medical coat and recite the Hippocratic Oath for the first time, before family, friends and faculty.
The annual White Coat Ceremony was initiated at P&S in 1993 and has since become tradition at more than 130 schools of medicine and osteopathy throughout the United States and internationally.
WHEN: Friday, August 27, 2004, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Alumni Auditorium, William Black Medical Research Building, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons 650 West 168th Street (entrance between Broadway and Fort Washington), First Floor
***Photo opportunities and interviews available with students and deans ***
WHY: Previously, medical students waited until graduation to recite the Hippocratic Oath. Incoming students now recite it in the beginning of their training as encouragement to live and work by its tenets of professionalism, excellence and responsibility for compassionate patient care.
WHO: Presentations will be given by:
Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D., Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
Antonia C. Novello, M.D., New York State Commissioner of Health
Linda D. Lewis, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Arnold P. Gold, M.D., President, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation and Professor of Clinical Neurology and Clinical Pediatrics
Robert Kelly, M.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
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