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Home » Professional Programs Celebrate White Coat Ceremonies
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Professional Programs Celebrate White Coat Ceremonies

By Office of CommunicationsJun 18, 2018
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Each June, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine celebrates two very different white-coat ceremonies: one for students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program and another for those starting in the Physician Assistant program. Though they celebrate different milestones, both ceremonies honor the hard work and achievements of students in two of the school’s professional degree programs.

Clinical Practice Ceremony Marks a Transition

The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program’s annual Clinical Practice Ceremony celebrates the transition from the program’s first year of classroom instruction to its second year of clinical practice.

At the ceremony, students received patches for their white coats and then recited an oath accepting the duties and responsibilities that embody the physical therapy profession. The event also included speakers including welcoming remarks from Julius P. Dewald, PhD, chair of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, and Diane B. Wayne, MD, vice dean for education and chair of Medical Education.

This year’s ceremony was held in the sky lobby on the 10th floor of the new Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Building (formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago).

See photos from the Physical Therapy Program’s Clinical Practice Ceremony:

At the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program's Clinical Practice Ceremony, celebrating the transition from the program’s first year of classroom instruction to its second year of clinical practice, students are presented with patches for their white coats.
At the DPT program’s Clinical Practice Ceremony, students received patches for their white coats.
Before receiving their program patch, students are helped into their white coats.
Before accepting their program patch, students were helped into their white coats.
This year's Clinical Practice Ceremony, the 12th annual event, was held in the 10th floor Sky Lobby of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago).
This year’s ceremony, the 12th annual event, was held in the 10th floor Sky Lobby of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
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Speakers including Julius Dewald, PhD, chair of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, welcomed students to the Clinical Practice Ceremony.

White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New Students

For the medical school’s physician assistant (PA) students, the White Coat Ceremony kicks off the beginning of their program. During the ceremony, the entering class of future PAs received their first white coats, recited the Physician Assistant Student Oath and heard from keynote speaker Lisa Williams, MS, director of professional practice and development for advanced practice providers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The PA program is a two-year, master’s level curriculum that focuses on small-group and problem-based learning. The 36 students in the class of 2020, the program’s ninth incoming class, came to Chicago from 14 different states, more than a dozen different undergraduate majors and with an average of 4,453 hours of patient care experience.

See photos from the PA Program’s White Coat Ceremony:

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At the PA program’s annual White Coat Ceremony, new students were presented with their first white coat and welcomed into the two-year program.
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Michael J MacLean, MS, PA-C, director of the PA program and assistant professor of Medical Education, addressed the incoming Class of 2020.
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Each member of the incoming class of students recited the Physician Assistant Student Oath.
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The PA program admitted 36 students this year, up from 30 students in previous classes.
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