2018 White Coat Ceremony

Together, the 124 new medical students — 62 women and 62 men from 10 countries and 31 states — wrote an oath promising honesty and integrity

By Huy Mach and Gaia Remerowski

New medical students at Washington University School of Medicine received their white coats Aug. 16 in a ceremony in the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Medical Campus. In addition to receiving their white coats, the 124 new medical students — 62 women and 62 men from 10 countries and 31 U.S. states — recited an oath promising honesty and integrity. They wrote the oath as a class. Read the oath and learn more about the new class.

Published in the Autumn 2018 issue