{"id":36615,"date":"2026-09-24T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36615"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:54:39","slug":"reflections-on-the-white-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/reflections-on-the-white-coat\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the White Coat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, first-year medical students celebrate a rite of passage in medicine when they receive their short white coats, symbolic of their status as physicians in training. Daniela Armella Tangarife, a third-year medical student, reflects on what the white coat means to her, as Geisel prepares for the Class of 2030 White Coat Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The White Coat Ceremony for the Geisel MD Class of 2030 will be held on Friday, September 25 at 2:00 PM in Moore Theater at the Hopkins Center. We will be streaming \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/SfGHw-xqdeY?si=LedSYjBbsszb7dDW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live video<\/a> of the ceremony so that friends, family, and colleagues can join in the excitement.<\/p>\n<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SuhhFhTwpHE?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, first-year medical students celebrate a rite of passage in medicine when they receive their short white coats, symbolic of their status as physicians in training. Daniela Armella Tangarife, a third-year medical student, reflects on what the white coat means to her, as Geisel prepares for the Class of 2030 White Coat Ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":36616,"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":[1],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-36615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-white-coat-ceremony","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/WC-NS.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-9wz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36618,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36615\/revisions\/36618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}