Date:	August 14, 2010
Contact:	Mary Bea Drummond (918) 594-8223

OSU Medicine White Coat Ceremony

TULSA, Okla. – A total of 92 new Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine students received their medical student white coats at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 14, as the final step in their medical school orientation.

Howard Barnett, president of OSU Center for Health Sciences and OSU-Tulsa, was the speaker at the 12th annual OSU White Coat Ceremony at Tulsa Community College VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education.

Students were presented with white coats provided by the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association.  The white coat symbolizes the medical profession, and the ceremony emphasizes the importance of the doctor-patient relationship and focuses on the true meaning of the art and science of medicine.

OSU’s public ceremony is the grand finale to student orientation week for members of the entering class, marking the students’ transition into a career of health care delivery. The student doctors recite the Osteopathic Medicine Oath of Commitment, symbolizing their entrance into the osteopathic medical profession. OSU’s first White Coat Ceremony was in 1998.

 

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa offers programs in osteopathic medicine, biomedical sciences and forensic sciences. Since its beginnings more than 30 years ago, OSU-CHS has grown to offer eight graduate degrees. On-campus programs, distance learning and OSU partnerships train osteopathic physicians, research scientists and health care professionals with an emphasis on serving rural and under-served Oklahoma. OSU operates eight clinics, six in Tulsa, one in Enid and one in Muskogee. More information about OSU Center for Health Sciences is available at www.healthsciences.okstate.edu.

 

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