White Coat Ceremony

Emily Hause, a student who was about to begin her first year of medical school in 2013, attended the White Coat Ceremony. This ceremony is a tradition based on congratulating the achieving students for being selected as medical students and being told about the commitment and obligations of being a doctor. However, the ceremony is traditionally performed before medical school even starts, not at the end. Emily Hause believed that the main reason for having the ceremony in the beginning was to act as a substitute for orientation, from all the speeches that was presented. Also, they would celebrate for her along with her classmates for becoming medical students. In the ceremony, she along with many of her fellow classmates were …show more content…
According to Bernard M. Karnath, a professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, Arnold P. Gold helped develop the White Coat Ceremony to help many new students who were about to enter medical school to be “given a well-defined guidelines regarding the expectations and responsibilities appropriate for the medical profession.” Emily Hause argues “being a future doctor has certain privileges, but also responsibilities. No more messing around in class, showing up to clinic in …show more content…
The modernized oath that is used in the White Coat Ceremony consists of the responsibility for the knowledge and medical training the individual went through and with the respect and caring of their patients’ illness and privacy. However, when looking back to the origin of the oath R. M. Veatch said that “the Hippocrates’s oath, original, was comprised of swearing to the Greek gods and goddesses and is offensive to Jews, Christians, and members of other religious traditions.” R. M. Veatch is a Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics at Georgetown and Senior Research Scholar at the