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Whitehead Lecture | |
| "To Make the Best Better-Farm Stories, Deep Thinkers, Good Doctors" Wednesday, August 19, 2009 The Whitehead Medical Society, the student government of the School of Medicine, is named in honor of Richard H. Whitehead, M.D. who served as Dean from 1890 to 1905. The Whitehead Lecture was established in 1947 to recognize the high standards and leadership of Dr. Whitehead. It has been an annual event since 1980. The lecturer is chosen by the Whitehead Council, Whitehead Medical Society’s governing body of elected officers. The selection is based on qualities of leadership, dedication, and devotion to medicine and teaching. A certificate is given in recognition of distinguished contribution to the science and art of medicine designating the recipient an Honorary Member of the Whitehead Society.
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White Coat Ceremony/ Family Day | ||
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The History of the White Coat Ceremony The first White Coat Ceremony was held at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York in 1993, supported by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The purpose of the ceremony is to clarify for students, prior to their entrance into the medical community that a physician's responsibility is to both take care of patients and also to care for patients. In other words, doctors should care as well as cure. Capturing students' attention at a strategic and impressionable moment, it is important that family members and friends are invited to attend the ceremony. An inspiring address by an eminent physician sets the tone for the ceremony in which distinguished faculty and administrators from the medical school cloak students with their first white coats. Students recite a student-written adaptation of the Hippocratic Oath appropriate for their status as students, pledging to lead lives of compassion, uprightness, and honor. The ceremony is designed to stress the importance of the doctor-patient relationship and to foster a psychological contract in which each student accepts responsibility to be technically excellent, committed to the profession, and compassionate with patients. About the Speaker
Richard A. Vinroot Jr., M.D., M.P.H. is from Charlotte, North Carolina. He graduated from the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2004. Dr. Vinroot began his residency in Emergency Medicine at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, serving the city and the region when Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. After completing his residency, Vinroot served as clinical supervisor of a tuberculosis prevention and treatment program in Nairobi, Kenya through Doctors Without Borders. Recently returned from Kenya, Dr. Vinroot now works as an emergency medicine physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation and Ochsner Baptist Medical Center in New Orleans.
Class of 2013 White Coat Ceremony Welcome and Introduction Family Day Welcome and Introduction
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Student Research Day | |
| Landes-Merrimon Lecture John B. Graham Student Research Day John B. Graham Student Research Day Banquet The John B. Graham Student Research Society
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Zollicoffer-Merrimon Lectureship | |
| Wanda K. Nicholson, MD, MPH, MBA Zollicoffer Banquet The Zollicoffer Lectureship was established in 1981 by members of the UNC chapter of the Student National Medical Association with the support of the Dean of the School of Medicine. It was named in honor of Lawrence Zollicoffer, M.D. (1930-1976), the fourth African American graduate of the UNC School of Medicine and founder of the Garwyn Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore community recognized Dr. Zollicoffer as a supporter and activist in the struggle for civil and human rights. Throughout his life, he exemplified qualities which students admire and hope to emulate as future physicians. By means of the lecture, we honor the memory of Dr. Zollicoffer, commemorate over 50 years of minority presence in the UNC School of Medicine, increase the awareness of minority health issues, and introduce the student body to dynamic minority role models in the field of medicine.
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Community Service Day | |
| Eugene S. Mayer Community Service Honor Society 12:00 P.M. to 1:30 P.M. 1:30 to 3:00 P.M. The Eugene S. Mayer Community Service Honor Society is an organization that recognizes those students who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to community service during their medical school career. Each year applicants are selected to present a poster or deliver an oral (multimedia) account of their community service involvement.
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Match Day | |
| Match Day
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Graduation | |
| Graduation Rehearsal
Graduation Saturday, May 8, 2010
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