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November 13, 2011
VCOM – Carolinas Campus Inaugural Class
White Coat Ceremony
The Inaugural Class from the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine—Carolinas Campus will receive their white coats, 2 pm on Sunday, October 23, 2011, at Twichell Auditorium of Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. A milestone in medical school education, the cloaking of medical students celebrates the beginning of their hands-on, clinical training in the medical field.
Formally initiated in medical profession in 1993, the white coat ceremony is a prestigious, formal rite of passage ceremony which allows student doctors to receive their first, student white coat. The symbolism of the white coat dates back to over one hundred years denoting professionalism, humanism and compassion towards patients.
Edward A. Feldman, D.O. will be the keynote speaker for the ceremony, along with words from Brian Snyder, D.O., President of South Carolina Osteopathic Medical Society President, and Dixie Tooke-Rawlins, D.O., Dean and Executive Vice President of Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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