COLUMBIA-White coats hung from a clothing rack on the stage in Jesse Auditorium, in front of an audience of family, friends and first-year medical students. Books were stacked on the other end of the stage, ready to be presented, while faculty and staff sat in between.
Med students don their coats
This White Coat Ceremony marks a beginning rather than an end
Monday, August 6, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 4:52 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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