2016 uab pa program white coat ceremony keynote address

History of the White Coat Ceremony

The Four Doctors by John Singer Sargent 1907

What is a “White Coat Ceremony”

Patrice Alves being cloaked by Dr. Sandra O. Gold at the 1st White Coat Ceremony in 1993

Nolan Renner being cloaked by his wife, Kayla, at the 1st UAB PA Program White Coat Ceremony in 2012

The Early “Dark” Years

Massachusetts General HospitalOctober 16, 1846

The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins

1875

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A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière by Andres Brouillet

1887Dr. Joseph Babinski

Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette

The Anatomy Lesson by Rembrandt

1632

“…good old surgical stink…display of experience”

“…old blue frock…stiff and glazed with old blood!”

Lister operating in 1860’s

Candidus (lat.)

August 9th 1867

Aseptic Technique

is Born

The Agnew Clinic by Thomas Eakins

1889

Operating Theatre at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA

1900

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How Students Think They Look and Feel

How Students Actually Look and Feel

Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?1. Recognize your accomplishments

2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine

3. Understand the significance of the white coat

“…but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers

is but a preparation”

Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?1. Recognize your accomplishments

2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine

3. Understand the significance of the white coat

“…Look upon us as elder brothers to whom you can come confidently

and fearlessly for advice in any trouble or difficulty”

Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?1. Recognize your accomplishments

2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine

3. Understand the significance of the white coat

“The art of the practice of medicine is to be learned only by experience;”

“…know that by practice alone can you

become expert”

“Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom”

What do you need to practice at the bedside

Humanism

Professionalism

Medicine

“Medicine is the art of probability and science of uncertainty”

Humanism ProfessionalismArt Science

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Professionalism Humanism

Physician Assistant

A New Tradition From An Old Mentor

“The Latchkeyers”

“…the student feels that he has joined a family whose honor is his honor, whose

welfare is his own, and whose interests should be

his first consideration”