The White Coat Ceremony represents a significant milestone, a transition from theory to practice as students transition to the clinical portion of their curriculum. Their coats are a symbol of responsibility and knowledge – to the profession – and to their patients. These second-year students have spent the first half of the program learning about the human body, mind and condition as parts of a whole. At this stage, they begin to put all of the pieces together and put in practice their understanding of how to treat patients as a whole entity.

Spring 2026 White Coat Ceremony is scheduled for Monday, March 30, 2026.