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EVENT:
More than 200 first-year medical students from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University will be in a “sea” of white coats this Friday, as they take a monumental step in their journey towards becoming physicians.

During the impressive annual White Coat Ceremony, each student, in domino-like fashion, will help a classmate don his physician’s white coat and then, in unison, they will take the Hippocratic Oath.

DATE: Friday August 4, 2006

TIME: 9:30 a.m. (Note: Donning of white coats is expected to take place at 10: 50 a.m. approx.)

LOCATION:
Crystal Tea Room
Wanamaker Building
1201 Market St
Philadelphia

KEYNOTE LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D., FACS

SPEAKER:
Surgical oncologist and Charles Drew Professor of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine, and Chairman of the Board of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

BACKGROUND:
Jefferson Medical College (JMC) was the first medical school in Philadelphia to establish the “White Coat Ceremony,” a tradition symbolizing the clinical beginning of every student’s medical education. It has been part of the first year program at JMC since 1994.

Once they’ve taken this step, the first-year students will have the exciting opportunity to interact for the first time with patients under the supervision of a Jefferson physician. Jefferson Medical College has one of the most balanced medical schools in the country, and approximately one fourth of all medical school applicants throughout the country apply to Jefferson. The University has continued to build upon the illustrious achievements of its founder Dr. George McClellan and his colleagues who founded "the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia" with the firm, but then outrageous, belief that medical students should participate, under proper supervision, in the diagnosis and care of patients.