Yale Medicine Spring 1999
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First-year students welcomed to medicine


 

A rite of passage

The White Coat Ceremony is a first-year student's initiation into medicine.
 

School of Medicine Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., helps first-year medical student Emmanuelle M. Clerisme into the white jacket that signifies service to others at the White Coat Ceremony held at the start of the academic year. Merle Waxman, associate dean for academic development, looks on.

Photographs: Gale Zucker


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Originally published in Yale Medicine, Winter/Spring 1998.
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