White Coat Ceremony 1
Physician Barbara Ostrov welcomes an incoming member of the College of Medicine's class of 2013 during the annual White Coat Ceremony. During the ceremony, members of the class of 2013 receive their first white medical coats, symbols of their entrance into the medical profession as student physicians. Students then recited the Hippocratic oath, the universally recognized creed for physicians.
White Coat Ceremony 2
Physician Michael Weitekamp helps an incoming member of the College of Medicine's class of 2013 put on her first white coat during the annual White Coat Ceremony. With an incoming class of 144 students, medical student enrollment at the College of Medicine has increased by 16 percent since 2001, a promising statistic considering an impending national shortage of physicians.
White Coat Ceremony 3
Members of the College of Medicine's class of 2013 prepare to recite the Hippocratic Oath during the annual White Coat Ceremony. The College of Medicine initiated its annual white coat ceremony in 1996 with funding support from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a public foundation fostering humanism in medicine.
White Coat Ceremony 4
Harold L. Paz, senior vice president for health affairs, dean of the College of Medicine and chief executive officer of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, welcomes an incoming member of the Class of 2013 during the annual White Coat Ceremony. During the ceremony, members of the class of 2013 receive their first white medical coats, symbols of their entrance into the medical profession as student physicians. A white coat ceremony or similar rite of passage takes place at more than 90 percent of schools of medicine and osteopathy in the United States.
White Coat Ceremony 5
Members of Penn State College of Medicine's Class of 2013 recite the Hippocratic oath during the annual White Coat Ceremony. During the ceremony, members of the class of 2013 receive their first white medical coats, symbols of their entrance into the medical profession as student physicians. Students then recite the Hippocratic oath, the universally recognized creed for physicians.
