White Coat Ceremony

"The White Coat Ceremony signifies the beginning of your clinical career as a physical therapy student. The ceremony creates a psychological, intellectual, and ethical contract for the profession and promotes empathy in the practice of physical therapy. It is a day to focus on integrity, excellence, compassion, altruism, respect, empathy, and service.

Columbia University is the only physical therapy program that has such a ceremony for first year students that is sanctioned by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in conjunction with colleagues at Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons. The Gold Foundation initially developed the ceremony for medical students at Columbia and later expanded it to every medical school in the US. Physical Therapy at Columbia was added by the Foundation in 1999.

In front of family, husbands, wives, significant others, friends and faculty you will be donning your white laboratory jackets and receive name pins and Arnold P. Gold Foundation pins. Mary Jean Taylor PT, PCS, Director of University Wellness and an adjunct faculty member of the program will be the keynote speaker."

Source: http://columbiaphysicaltherapy.org/sites/default/files//White%20Coat%20Announcement%20for%20web.pdf

Video Clips:

"America The Beautiful" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZwIfJihtk

Class President Speech -

2016-04-02 12.43.21

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