WHAT:
18th Annual School of Medicine Convocation and White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2018
WHEN:
10 a.m. Sunday, July 20
WHERE:
Holly Auditorium, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229
WHO:
More than 200 students entering the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center will be presented white coats, which symbolize their journey to becoming physicians. At the end of the ceremony, the students will in unison recite The Physician’s Oath of Hippocrates. (Photo opportunity)
William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, president of the Health Science Center, and Francisco González-Scarano, M.D., dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs, will bring greetings, as will James Humphreys, M.D., president-elect of the Bexar County Medical Society, and Valerie Pronio-Stelluto, M.D., president of the School of Medicine Alumni Association Board of Directors. The students will hear addresses from Dean González and Joshua Hanson, M.D., assistant professor of hospital medicine, who is the winner of the 2014-15 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.
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