Keynote Address to Entering Medical Students White Coat Ceremony, University of Medicine and Health Sciences October 7, 2017 Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you on this important day and at this meaningful ceremony. White Coat ceremonies at American medical schools were started by Columbia University faculty member Dr. Arnold P. Gold, a pediatric neurologist, with the purpose of nurturing and preserving the tradition of the caring physician. The first was held in 1993. Dr. Gold and his collaborator, Dr. Sandra Gold, an educational psychologist, promoted the values of Humanism with this ceremony that asks students to take an oath at the beginning of their medical education, not just the end, and to give students guidelines and expectations regarding their responsibilities as physicians early in their education and training. This process of hearing from an experienced physician, donning the White Coat, and taking the oath, i
Chronicles and analysis on the path towards universal access to healthcare in the US Author: Julie Graves, MD, MPH, PhD, FAAFP -Public health and family medicine physician -PhD health policy, MPH health systems, University of Texas School of Public Health -MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School -Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians -Democrat