What: 13th Annual White Coat CeremonyWhere: NYU School of Medicine 530 First Avenue New York, NY 10016 Ruth and George Farkas AuditoriumWhen: Friday, August 20, 2010 1:00 PM Eastern Time
Orientation Culminates with 13th Annual White Coat Ceremony
Newswise — A White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2014 will be held on Friday, August 20, at 1PM at the NYU School of Medicine. The White Coat Ceremony signifies the end of Orientation for new medical students and the beginning of their career as a medical student. This ceremony creates a psychological, intellectual, and ethical contract for the profession and promotes empathy in the practice of medicine from the very start of medical training.
During the ceremony, students are brought to the stage and in the presence of family, friends, and colleagues are “cloaked” in their first white coat by one of eight specially selected faculty members,. Together as a class, they will take an oath similar to the Hippocratic Oath, which stresses the importance of the doctor-patient relationship and a compassionate commitment to medicine.
Robert I Grossman, MD, The Saul J. Farber Dean and CEO, NYU Langone Medical Center will welcome the new students, and at the conclusion of the ceremony, will administer the Student Oath and also the Parents, Family, Friends, and Teacher’s Oath. The Keynote Speaker, Daniel F. Roses, MD, the Jules Leonard Whitehill Professor of Surgery and Oncology, will speak about “New York University and the Legacy of Medical Humanism”.
Faculty Presenting White Coats are: Daniel F. Roses, MD, the Jules Leonard Whitehill Professor of Surgery and Oncology; Steven B. Abramson, MD; senior vice president and vice dean, Education, Faculty and Academic Affairs; Lynn Buckvar-Keltz, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Medicine and associate dean, Student Affairs, Fritz Francois, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology; and assistant dean, Academic Affairs and Diversity; Amy Rapkiewicz, MD, assistant professor, Department of Pathology and, Michael Tanner, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and winner of the 2010 Leonard J. Tow Humanism in Medicine Faculty Award
This event is co-sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation White Coat Ceremony welcomes entering medical students and helps establish a psychological contract for the practice of medicine. The event emphasizes the importance of compassionate care for the patient as well as scientific proficiency. Currently, a White Coat Ceremony or similar rite of passage takes place at more than 90% of schools of medicine and osteopathy in the United States, as well as at all four medical schools in Israel.
About NYU Langone Medical Center: NYU Langone Medical Center is one of the nation's premier centers of excellence in healthcare, biomedical research, and medical education. For over 168 years, NYU physicians and researchers have made countless contributions to the practice and science of health care. Today the Medical Center consists of NYU School of Medicine, including the Smilow Research Center, the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, and the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences; and the NYU Hospitals Center, including Tisch Hospital, a 705-bed acute-care general hospital, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, the first and largest facility of its kind, and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, a leader in musculoskeletal care, a Clinical Cancer Center and numerous ambulatory sites.
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