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White coat ceremony

White coat ceremony

Last Saturday, the VU medical center helped a large group of young doctors in the white coat for the second time. With this, VUmc was the first in the Netherlands to make a clear distinction between the more theoretical and practical part of the medicine programme.

During the impressive ceremony – officially from the United States – a group of nearly 200 students were presented with the jacket and were symbolically hoisted into their new office

The aim of the ceremony is that more insight into and awareness of being a doctor to both the student and the trainer.

During the ceremony, the students also spoke a year text from:how they want to function as a doctor, what responsibilities, ideals and obligations they attach to their profession and how they wish to propagate these.