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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 10, 2007

TIME:  9 a.m.

(Note: Donning of white coats is expected to take place at 10:15 a.m. approx)

LOCATION:  
Crystal Tea Room
Wanamaker Building
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia                                                                                                                                            

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:                
Richard C. Wender, M.D.
Clinical Professor and Chair
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University

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.

Founded in 1824, Jefferson Medical College is one of the largest private medical schools with among the largest living alumni group in the nation. It offers both traditional medical education and innovative joint degree programs to its enrollment of over 900 students each year and has awarded more than 27,000 medical degrees.  Approximately one fourth of all medical school applicants throughout the country apply to Jefferson.