2021 White Coat Ceremony
This year’s White Coat Ceremony will beSunday, September 19th at 2:30pm EST.
Out of an abundance of caution, this year’s event will be held virtually for our students’ guests. To our Students,更多信息about this year’s White Coat Ceremony is available below.
(Download a recording of the event using the iconin the top right corner of the video!)
History of the White Coat Ceremony
The first White Coat Ceremony was held at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York in 1993, supported by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The purpose of the ceremony is to clarify for students, prior to their entrance into the medical community that a physician’s responsibility is to both take care of patients and also to care for patients. In other words, doctors should care as well as cure.
Capturing students’ attention at a strategic and impressionable moment, it is important that family members and friends are invited to attend the ceremony. An inspiring address by an eminent physician sets the tone for the ceremony in which distinguished faculty and administrators from the medical school cloak students with their first white coats. Students recite a student-written adaptation of the Hippocratic Oath appropriate for their status as students, pledging to lead lives of compassion, uprightness, and honor. The ceremony is designed to stress the importance of the doctor-patient relationship and to foster a psychological contract in which each student accepts responsibility to be technically excellent, committed to the profession, and compassionate with patients.
In addition to the first-year students receiving their White Coats, this is also a momentous occasion in which select Fourth Year Medical Students are inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. The Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) honors medical students, residents, role-model physician teachers, and other exemplars recognized for “demonstrated excellence in clinical care, leadership, compassion, and dedication to service.” Organized to elevate the values of humanism and professionalism within the field of medicine, the Society is fast becoming integrated into the medical educational environment.
方向
The in-person portion of the event for our students will be held in Memorial Hall.
Memorial Hall is located at208 E Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.
Once in Chapel Hill, when the road forks, exit right onto Franklin Street.
Turn left onto Raleigh Street.
Turn at the next right onto Cameron Avenue.
Memorial Hall will be on your left.
Exit onto NC-54W, exit 273A, toward Chapel Hill.
When you reach campus, turn right onto Country Club Dr.
This road turns into Cameron Ave.
Memorial Hall will be on your left.
Take the NC-86 exit, exit 266, toward Chapel Hill.
You will now be on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
遵循这条路美联社proximately 3.5 miles into downtown Chapel Hill.
Turn left onto Cameron Avenue.
Memorial Hall will be on the right.
Parking
The Bell Tower parking lot is located on South Road near the Bell Tower and is a short walk across Polk Place to Memorial Hall. This lot is free and is first-come, first-served.
- Rosemary st. Deck – 150 E Rosemary St
- Municipal Lot 2 – 100 E Rosemary St
- Municipal Lot 3 – 415 W Franklin St
- Municipal Lot 4 – 104 W Rosemary St
- Municipal Lot 5 – 108 Church St & W Rosemary St
- Municipal Lot 6 – 127 W Rosemary St