This year marked the tenth edition of an event that has a powerful meaning for students of medicine as well as for their parents and mentors: the Dr. Joseph Wener Donning the Healer’s Habit Ceremony, or for short, the White Coat Ceremony.
Event sponsors, the generous Wener family, visited McGill, and like everyone in the overflowing Palmer Howard Amphitheatre, enjoyed the sweet refrain of music by Mozart and Bach, as performed by the I Medici di McGill Quartet, and speeches by Dean Dr. Richard I. Levin, Associate Dean Dr. Joyce Pickering, and student representatives.
This year’s entertaining and often very funny keynote address was from Medicine alumnus, Dr. Alan Peterkin, now Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine and Head of Program in Narrative and Health Care Humanities at the University of Toronto.
As with every year, the stars of the show were the students themselves, receiving for the first time their distinctive white coats in which they’ll work during their clinical rotations.
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