Guest dr nomis Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Does UBC hold a White Coat Ceremony for students entering their medical school? I've just started hearing about some other schools that do this and am very interested. For those of you who don't know what it is: The white coat ceremony is a relatively new ritual in the USA that marks entrance into medical school and more recently also podiatric medical school, dental school, pharmacy school and some allied health professions. It originated in Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1993 and involves a formal "robing" or "cloaking" of incoming medical students (and now other types of students) in (laboratory) white coats, the garb physicians have traditionally worn for over 100 years and other health professions have adopted. adapted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whi...t_Ceremony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TKP 123 Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 not in UBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shetland23 Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Is the white coat ceremony same as the orientation week in which we play games and go drinking? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dr nomis Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I'm not thinking of the same thing...apparently some schools have an actual ceremony outside of the games and drinking. I have heard of the "orientation" week. and I'm stoked. Apparently everyone goes camping on some island, too, where they all play games and go drinking on an island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest leviathan Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 The White Coat Ceremony sounds a little bit pompous. It would be better suited for graduation when you can actually know what you're doing while wearing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GundamDX Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 they have one for pharmacy :b are you saying we are no better than the pharmacists?! j/k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ssc427 Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 The White Coat Ceremony sounds a little bit pompous. It would be better suited for graduation when you can actually know what you're doing while wearing it. I don't think it's pompous at all and I'm sad UBC doesn't have one. The whole reason Columbia started it is because their students started seeing patients first year (like everywhere else these days). So they wanted students to recite the oath before starting, not after graduation, and they made a ceremony out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest leviathan Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 Ohh, that makes sense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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