{"id":121828,"date":"2021-07-28T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=121828"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:16:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:16:34","slug":"one-day-two-white-coat-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/one-day-two-white-coat-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day, Two White Coat Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201csea of white coats\u201d filled Addition Financial Arena Monday as two UCF medical school classes \u2013 more than 200 students \u2014 participated in a traditional White Coat Ceremony, recognizing them as colleagues in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/healthcare\/\">healthcare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/college\/medicine\/\">College of Medicine<\/a> typically holds the ceremony on the first day of class for first-year students. This year, the medical school held two ceremonies \u2014 one for the new Class of 2025 and one for second-year students in the Class of 2024 who didn\u2019t have a White Coat Ceremony last year because of COVID-19 restrictions. A year ago, those students received their white coats wrapped in plastic and placed in their car trunks during a drive-through orientation exercise that allowed for safe social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, as their names were announced, each second-year student walked across the stage holding that white coat and handed it to Marcy Verduin, associate dean of students, who performed the formal coating. \u201cYou\u2019ve waited a long time for this,\u201d she told students. \u201cIt\u2019s so nice to look out and see a sea of white coats and you all together in person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verduin was standing in for Deborah German, vice president for Health Affairs and founding dean of UCF\u2019s College of Medicine. German was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, despite being fully vaccinated, and is isolated at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first year in the history of our college that I will not have the privilege of welcoming you with a white coat,\u201d German wrote in a letter that was read to both classes of students. \u201cI wanted you to know it would take a pandemic to keep me from you on this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-video d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><noscript><iframe title=\"UCF White Coat Ceremony 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IFlttUxfF_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><iframe title=\"UCF White Coat Ceremony 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IFlttUxfF_4?feature=oembed\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In his welcoming remarks, UCF President Alexander N. Cartwright said there has never been a better time for students to be part of UCF and its College of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a sense of entrepreneurship and optimism here \u2014 guided by compassion and a desire to make an impact \u2014 that is unique in higher education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>First-year medical student Nicholas Pekmezian saw that spirit as an undergraduate at Stetson University in DeLand, which has a partnership with the UCF College of Medicine that allows students there to take classes at the medical school\u2019s Anatomy Lab with M.D. students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me the people at UCF made the decision very easy for me,\u201d he says about his choice for medical school. \u201cWhenever I visited UCF, everyone \u2013 from the students to the attending physicians \u2013 was friendly, open to answering questions and genuinely excited to teach us. Being a part of an organization that acts on their values is something very unique and important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was the first time the class of 2024 had met in-person as students had spent the last year bonded mostly over Zoom classes and study groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started medical school during a pandemic,\u201d says second-year M.D. student Etta Conteh, who received her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/biomedical-sciences-bs\/\">undergraduate degree in biomedical sciences<\/a> at UCF. \u201cSo it\u2019s nice to finally see everybody in person, not on Zoom, and be able to celebrate together.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_121842\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;\" class=\"figure mx-auto d-block\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-121842 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-121842 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021-360x240.jpg 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2021\/07\/COM-White-Coat-2021.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Marcy Verduin, associate dean of students, writes the traits of The Good Doctor \u2014 A UCF Tradition that will be on display at the medical school all year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since the College of Medicine\u2019s first class matriculated in 2009, UCF\u2019s White Coat Ceremony has included The Good Doctor \u2013 A UCF Tradition as the new students\u2019 first class of medical school. Here, German asks students to imagine the person they love most in the world is gravely ill and asks them to name the qualities of the physician they want treating their loved one. As students call out traits, she writes them on a chalkboard that is displayed in the medical school rotunda.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, students emailed traits to German who wrote them on the chalkboard during a virtual ceremony. The chalkboard remained on display for the past year, even though the medical school was largely closed due to the pandemic. During their coating ceremony, Verduin pointed to the chalkboard with the Class of 2024 words that included&nbsp;<em>compassionate, humble, knowledgeable, ethical and trustworthy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis represents your contract with your dean, your faculty, your family, your friends, your community and each other \u2013 to become the good doctor during your time in medical school,\u201d she said. \u201cCongratulations, Class of 2024, for you are off to a great start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s new students came up with 40 traits of The Good Doctor, including&nbsp;brave, resilient, compassionate, ethical, holistic, inspiring and culturally competent.<\/p>\n<p>The med school traditionally updates the board when the next class enters medical school. Starting this year, UCF will begin a new tradition. The \u201cGood Doctor\u201d chalkboard will contain the words of both the first- and second-year classes on display.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will use both sides of the chalk board for the first time in our history,\u201d Verduin says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the medical school held two ceremonies \u2014 one for the new Class of 2025 and one for second-year students in the Class of 2024 who didn\u2019t have a White Coat Ceremony last year because of COVID-19 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