white coat ceremony: a medical student’s journey from basic sciences to clinical medicine

The white coat ceremony: a contemporary medical ritual.

T he white coat ceremony is a common practice at many American and European medical schools. Current justification for the ceremony is mainly based on the good will felt by participants and an assumed connection between the ceremony and encouraging humanistic values in medicine. Recent critiques of the ceremony faults its use of oaths, premature alignment of students and faculty, and the select...

Beyond the White Coat Ceremony

Note from Anna B. Reisman, Co-Director, Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers' Workshop, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Health Care System: This issue inaugurates a new feature: selected writings from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghes...

Humanism or professionalism? The White Coat Ceremony and medical education.

In this article, the author challenges the widely held assumption that humanism and professionalism are necessarily complementary themes in medical education. He argues that humanism and professionalism are two very different value systems with different rationales, different goals, and different agendas. Whereas humanism is a universal, egalitarian ideology, professionalism represents the paro...

White coat ceremonies for new medical students.

A survey of medical students’ attitude toward medicine and it’s future in Jahrom Medical University (basic and clinical stages)

Introduction. This study was designed to measure the attitude of the medical students’ of Jahrom school of medical sciences in basic and clinical stages and the approach they have to their course of study and future occupation. Methods. A Questionnaire was handed out in which some items such as sex, final high school scores, term average scores, patient’s education and the assigned students w...

Abstracts of Soviet Medicine, Part A—basic Medical Sciences