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NSU-COM’s White Coat Ceremony Welcomes the Class of 2020
During the ceremony, NSU-COM faculty members cloak students in the white coats they will wear throughout their medical school experience.
The NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine recently welcomed the class of 2020 into the osteopathic profession at the 36th annual White Coat Ceremony. The ceremony, which was held in the Arena at NSU’s Don Taft University Center, served to officially celebrate the 248 students’ entry into the medical vocation.
In the presence of family, guests, and faculty members, the students were welcomed into the medical community by leaders of the osteopathic profession and ceremonially cloaked with their white coats. By establishing this meaningful ritual at the beginning of medical school, the intent is to make students aware of their responsibilities from the first day of training and convey the message that doctors should care as well as cure.