WVU medical students to participate in 30th annual White Coat Ceremony, continue pathway to patient care

Second-year students in the WVU School of Medicine will transition to the clinical care portion of their education following the 30th annual John W. Traubert White Coat Ceremony set for 1 p.m. Saturday (March 14) in the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center. (WVU Photo/Davidson Chan)

WHO: More than 110 West Virginia University School of Medicinesecond-year medical students

WHAT: The 30th annual John W. Traubert White Coat Ceremony

WHERE: WVU Canady Creative Arts Center, 1436 Evansdale Drive, Morgantown

WHEN: Saturday, March 14, 1 p.m.

NOTES:Instead of at the start of medical school, the WVU School of Medicine holds its White Coat Ceremony in students' second year to emphasize the transition to the clinical care portion of their studies.

The ceremony stresses the importance of the doctor-patient relationship and the relevance of the white coat as a cloak of compassion. It will also be the first time the students publicly recite the Hippocratic Oath.

Dr. Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, executive chair of the WVU Cancer Institute, will serve as the ceremony's keynote speaker. As theexecutive chair, she focuses efforts on expansion of regional cancer center sites and supporting the development of programs that increase access to cancer care throughout West Virginia and the region, with the intent of transforming lives and eliminating cancer outcome disparities.

Dr. Hazard-Jenkins is a 2001 graduate of the MD program. She is board certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery, is also a professor in the WVU School of Medicine and associate chair of cancer services in the Department of Surgery.

This is the 30th year of the ceremony, which is named for Dr. Traubert, former associate dean for student and curricular affairs, who practiced family medicine in Wellsburg before joining the University as founding chair of the Department of Family Practice, now the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

The ceremony will be followed by a reception at the Erickson Alumni Center, 1 Alumni Drive.

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