{"id":14113,"date":"2020-10-16T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:57:35","slug":"geisels-class-of-2024-receive-their-white-coats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2020\/geisels-class-of-2024-receive-their-white-coats\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel\u2019s Class of 2024 Receive Their White Coats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/body><\/html><\/p>\nEarly on a foggy mid-October morning drive-through, Alison V. Holmes, MD, MPH, associate dean for student affairs, and John F. Dick III, MED \u201903, interim senior associate dean of medical education, distributed white coats to first-year Geisel medical students, marking an important symbolic step in their medical careers. Shifting from its usual on-campus celebration with friends and family because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, students were coated later that morning during their On Doctoring small group sessions.<\/p>\nLater in the evening, family and friends joined students in a Zoom gathering featuring guest speakers to celebrate this important right-of-passage.<\/p>\nRepresenting the Class of 2023, second-year medical student Irene Vargas reminded everyone they are at the beginning of their journey and the white coat they received means something different to each of them. \u201cFor me, this white coat is a symbol of the privilege I have to care for others,\u201d she said. \u201cMy white coat reminds me that I must advocate for my patients, ensure equitable care, and work to erase the injustice of healthcare disparities. Every time I wear this white coat, I am reminded that I wouldn\u2019t be here without the unconditional support of my parents who immigrated to this country and sacrificed their dreams so I could live mine.\u201d<\/p>\nThis slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-14113-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" 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itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\nCongratulating the Class of 2024 alumni guest speaker Lisa Adams, MED \u201990, Geisel\u2019s associate dean for global health and an associate professor of medicine, acknowledged their momentous day in the midst of a momentous year. \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to dwell on what the current pandemic has taken away,\u201d she said. \u201cI want us to rewrite that narrative right now to bring us back to the symbolic significance behind today\u2019s ceremony in your professional lives\u2014your white coat. A physician\u2019s white coat is a powerful symbol that represents responsibility and privilege.\u201d<\/p>\nAdams went on to say that during the past seven months as a co-chair of Dartmouth\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force, she was grateful for \u201chaving my mental white coat to slip my arms into and know that I had training that made it possible for me, sometimes the only doctor in the room, to approach this challenge with empathy, calm reassurance, thoughtfulness and skill. Remember your white coat gives you the privilege of working toward something bigger than yourself.\u201d<\/p>\nIn closing, Adams invoked the words of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: \u201c\u2026 do something outside yourself, something to repair tears in your community, something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That\u2019s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for one\u2019s self but for one\u2019s community.\u201d<\/p>\nIf you missed the White Coat Ceremony, you can watch a recording of the event here.<\/p>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> \n<html><body><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aOUSGCVVC4w?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On October 14, Geisel’s first-year medical students received their white coats, marking an important symbolic step in their medical careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[978,911,92],"class_list":["post-14113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-class-of-2024","tag-white-coat","tag-white-coat-ceremony","author-12"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/WhiteCoat_featured.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-3FD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14113"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14153,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions\/14153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}