White Coat Ceremony

We had our white coat ceremony for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Class of 2016 this afternoon!

Drs. Cobbs and Casanova putting the white coat on me. Dr. Casanova is an OB/GYN so that was appropriate for me!

Posing for a picture for the professional photographer down at the stage

Receiving a book as a gift

Reciting our Class oath

Leaving the stage

Our family afterward

The proceedings were similar to a shortened graduation ceremony. We had an invocation then the dean of the School of Medicine gave some remarks. We then went one at a time up on stage to have our white coat placed on us. I was the third-to-last out of our class of 150 since they went in alphabetical order. We paused for a picture, shook hands with the doctors who placed the coat on us, then went to pick up a book as a gift. The book is called "The Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor's Story" and was written by the dean of our medical school. He relates his story of being kidnapped out of his house in 2005 and eventually talking the criminal out of his intentions.

After we picked up our book, we went behind the curtain and had another picture taken alone. We lined up behind the stage and they opened the curtains. Dr. Cobbs led us in reading the class oath that we wrote as a class and we ended with a benediction.

Kristen and I didn't stay long afterward as Ethan was getting hungry, but we did ask someone to take a picture of us afterward.

Here's a news story that a local news channel did about the ceremony in case you want to see a video. http://everythinglubbock.com/fulltext?nxd_id=113372