Future Doctors to Receive White Coats at Ceremony
New students in The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences will receive their traditional doctor’s white coats during a welcome ceremony at 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22 in Nitschke Auditorium.
Dr. Jeffrey P. Gold, chancellor and executive vice president for biosciences and health affairs and dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, will officiate the ceremony in which more than 175 medical students will receive their white coats.
“The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences is proud to participate in this time honored tradition,” Gold said.
Dr. Blair Grubb, UT Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, will give the keynote address entitled “The Calling.” Grubb recently published a book by the same name through the UT Press that is a collection of stories focusing on the interactions between doctors and patients.
The annual white-coat ceremony is a rite practiced at medical schools across the country as a way to welcome students to the clinical aspects of medical practice and impress upon them the importance of professionalism and humanism in the field of medicine.
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