A New Welcome for a New Medical School Class
Gerry Abrams with parents Tim McLaughlin and Sharon McLaughlin
Photo: D.C. Goings
Tommie and Christine Shell
Photo: D.C. Goings
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This year’s White Coat Ceremony was preceded the day before by the first-ever
Family Day, a new welcoming event for first-year U-M medical students and their
families. On Saturday, August 17, participants gathered at the Towsley Center
for Continuing Medical Education to attend a “mini-medical school,” including
lectures such as “Teaching Anatomy” by Thomas R. Gest, Ph.D., intended
to give them an idea of what U-M medical students experience during their course
of study. Between the morning and afternoon lecture sessions, parents, siblings,
and even some extended family members who were in attendance explored plastinated
specimens, computer exhibits and demonstrations displayed in the Towsley Lobby
as part of the day’s activities.
The following day, the Power Center for the Performing Arts was the venue
for the White Coat Ceremony. The 173 students that comprise the class of 2006
were welcomed to the school by Dean Allen Lichter (M.D. 1972), then-Medical
Center Alumni Society President Mac Whitehouse (M.D. 1973, Residency 1978),
Associate Dean for Student Programs Rachel Glick (M.D. 1984), and Professor
of Pathology Gerald Abrams (M.D. 1955). As family members watched with pride,
Dean Lichter presented each student with the first white coat of their medical
careers.
The White Coat Ceremony provided the Medical School’s
Class of 2006 with a formal start to their medical training. The annual
event is sponsored by the Medical Center Alumni Society.
Photo: Gregory Fox |
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