uab pa program white coat ceremony keynote speech
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
Physician Assistant Program
White Coat Ceremony
Class of 2016
UAB Physician Assistant Program FacultyProgram Director – J. Rick Kilgore, PhD, PA-C
Associate Program Director, Clinical Coordinator – Paul Harrelson, PA-C
Medical Director – Don Reiff, MD
Associate Medical Director – John Baddley, MD
Academic Coordinator – Kristopher Maday, PA-C
Director of Admissions – William Drace, PA-C
Director of Outcomes and Measures – Kelley Swatzell, PhD
Director of Simulation – Chad Epps, MD
Assistant Professor – Kara Caruthers, PA-C
Assistant Professor, Clinical Coordinator – Stephanie McGilvray, PA-C
Assistant Professor – John Hurt, PA-C
History of the White Coat Ceremony
The Four Doctors by John Singer Sargent 1907
What is a “White Coat Ceremony”
Patrice Alves being cloaked by Dr. Sandra O. Gold at the 1st White Coat Ceremony in 1993
Nolan Renner being cloaked by his wife, Kayla, at the 1st UAB PA Program White Coat Ceremony in 2012
The Early “Dark” Years
Massachusetts General Hospital October 16, 1846
The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins
1875
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A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière by Andres Brouillet
1887Dr. Joseph Babinski
Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette
To put it in perspective…
• Victor Robinson – History of Medicine (2005)
• Louis HFT, et al. Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma, and Rehabilitation (2011)
“…good old surgical stink…display of experience”
“…old blue frock…stiff and glazed with old blood!”
Where did the “white” come from?
• Candidus (lat) – “shining white”
– Candor or truth
• August 9th, 1867
– Aseptic technique was born
Joseph Lister -‐ 1902
The Agnew Clinic by Thomas Eakins
1889
Operating Theatre at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA
1900
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Why is it short?
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How Students Think They Look and Feel
How Students Actually Look and Feel
Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?
1. Recognize your accomplishments
2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine
3. Understand the significance of the white coat
“…but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers
is but a preparation”
Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?
1. Recognize your accomplishments
2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine
3. Understand the significance of the white coat
“…Look upon us as elder brothers to whom you can come confidently and fearlessly for advice in any trouble or
difficulty”
Why do we have a “White Coat Ceremony”?
1. Recognize your accomplishments
2. Initiation to the professional brotherhood of medicine
3. Understand the significance of the white coat
“Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom”
“The art of the practice of medicine is to be learned only by experience;”
“…know that by practice alone can you
become expert”
What do you need to practice at the bedside
Humanism
Professionalism
Medicine
“Medicine is the art of probability and science of uncertainty”
Humanism ProfessionalismArt Science
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Professionalism Humanism
Physician Assistant
A New Tradition From An Old Mentor
“The Latchkeyers”
“…the student feels that he has joined a family whose honor is his honor, whose welfare is his
own, and whose interests should be his first consideration”
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Physician Assistant Program
White Coat Ceremony
Class of 2016
