3. What is a “White Coat Ceremony”
Patrice Alves being cloaked by Dr. Sandra O. Gold
at the 1st White Coat Ceremony in 1993
Nolan Renner being cloaked by his wife, Kayla, at the
1st UAB PA ProgramWhite Coat Ceremony in 2012
7. Click to edit Master title style
A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière
by Andres Brouillet
1887
Dr. Joseph Babinski
Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette
8. The Anatomy Lesson by Rembrandt
1632
“…good old surgical stink…display of experience”
16. Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?
1. Recognize your accomplishments
2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine
3. Understand the significance of the white coat
17. “…but a life course, for which the
work of a few years under teachers
is but a preparation”
18. Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?
1. Recognize your accomplishments
2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine
3. Understand the significance of the white coat
19. “…Look upon us as elder brothers
to whom you can come confidently
and fearlessly for advice in any
trouble or difficulty”
20. Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?
1. Recognize your accomplishments
2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine
3. Understand the significance of the white coat
21. “The art of the practice of medicine is to
be learned only by experience;”
“…know that by
practice alone can you
become expert”
30. “…the student feels that he
has joined a family whose
honor is his honor, whose
welfare is his own, and
whose interests should be
his first consideration”