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First Med Students Get White Coats

First Med Students Get White Coats
The 54 students in the inaugural class of the new Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine on Wednesday afternoon participated in the school's first White Coat Ceremony, in which medical students receive the traditional lab coats worn by doctors.

During the ceremony, keynote speaker Dr. Alan Shapiro, senior medical director of Community Pediatric Programs at The Children's Hospital in Montefiore in New York, spoke passionately about humanism and social justice in medicine and told the students that the white coat is a powerful symbol of the medical profession.

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