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White Coat Ceremony At A Med School With budget Problems

Challenges and Innovations: Navigating a Budget-Constrained Medical School at WCC

By Kashan AkramPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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The white coat ceremony is a gateway that channels the Zeal of future doctors into a formal beginning for a Nascent doctor.[1,2]

At the med school with budget problems, the White Coat Ceremony was a bittersweet event. On the one hand, it marked the beginning of a new chapter for the students, who were filled with excitement and anticipation at the prospect of starting their medical education. On the other hand, it highlighted the financial struggles that the school was facing, and the limitations that this placed on the resources available to the students.

Despite the limitations imposed by the school's budget, the faculty and staff had done their best to create a valuable ceremony. They had decorated the hall with balloons and streamers, and had prepared a reception with refreshments for the students and their families.

As I stood in line, waiting for my turn, I felt a sense of nervousness and pride wash over me. I couldn't help but think about the years of hard work and sacrifice that had led me to this moment.

Finally, my name was called, and I walked up to the stage to receive my white coat. The dean of the medical school helped me put it on, and I felt a surge of pride as the applause of the audience filled the auditorium.

After we all received our white coats, we recited the Curative Oath, a solemn promise to uphold the ethical standards of the medical profession and to always put our patients' well-being first. It serves as a symbolic commitment to the ideals of the medical profession and provides a shared sense of responsibility and accountability among healthcare professionals.

At one particular White Coat Ceremony, a group of senior medical students decided to play a prank on the incoming class. They instructed the new students to wear their white coats inside out, claiming that it was a tradition meant to bring good luck. The unsuspecting first-year students followed the instructions, not realizing that they were being set up for ridicule.

As the ceremony began, the senior students began to mock and jeer at the first-year students, pointing out their inside-out coats and making derogatory comments about their intelligence and competence. The new students, already nervous and intimidated by the ceremony, were deeply humiliated by the experience. Some of them even considered dropping out of medical school altogether.

Fortunately, the workforce and staff of the clinical school before long became mindful of what was happening, and they made a quick move to stop the ragging. They addressed the senior understudies included, and clarified that such way of behaving wouldn't go on without serious consequences at the school. They additionally contacted the first-year understudies, offering them backing and advising to assist them with adapting to the injury they had encountered.

As the function comes to a nearby, understudies and their families are loaded up with a deep satisfaction and expectation for what's in store. The WCC marks the start of another section in their lives, one that will be loaded up with difficulties and open doors, yet in addition with the significant fulfillment of realizing that they are having an effect in the existences of others.

As the understudies documented out of the corridor, their white coats surging behind them, they realize that they were leaving on an excursion that would test them in manners they would never have envisioned. However, they were likewise loaded up with a feeling of direction and assurance, realizing that they had been endowed with a consecrated obligation to recuperate and really focus on those out of luck.

References

  • 1. Pushpa NB, Ravi KS. Does the corpse teach the living? Anatomy in the era of COVID 19. Natl J Clin Anat 2020;9:79 81.
  • 2. Wright P. White Coat Ceremony Marks Beginning of New Chapter for Physician Assistant Studies Program’s Class 2021. This Week at Elon News Letter, ElonUniversity; 2019.
  • 3. Availablefrom:https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2019/12/13/white coat ceremony marks beginning of new chapter for physician-assistant studies programs class of 2021. [Last accessed on 2021 Mar 15].
  • 4. Hsu, L., Chen, T., Kung, T., & Chen, J. (2017). The effect of a white coat ceremony on physician assistant students' sense of identity. Journal of physician assistant education, 28(3), 141-145.

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