Talk:White coat ceremony

Master of Nursing?
Nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, and other advanced degree RN's commonly wear knee level white lab coats and are in "clinical" practice settings so I'm curious if there is a "WCC" for Master of Nursing, MSN, MAN, Nursing PhD, etc students. I was thinking that they may do the pinning ceremony again but on second thought I think that a WCC would be more appropriate to the advanced level (pinning is often done at the Associate degree level). I'll try to find out and report back (hopefully with references). If you know please inform us. I rather stumbled onto this article and am now interested because I will be starting a Master of Nursing degree program in about a month (coincidentally, along with scrubs and warm-up scrubs I will be issued knee length white lab coats embroidered with the school and MN program logo- actually, I pay for them but the cost is included in the tuition). Thanks!

Picture?
Could this article have a picture of an actual ceremony instead of just a white coat? Daniel Case 15:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Of course. If you have a picture to which you own the rights or know of one that is public domain or GFDL free... include it. :) Nephron  T|C 21:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I know that. This is just a prompt to someone to take a more encyclopedic picture next fall. Daniel Case


 * If, and this is a BIG if here, my Master of Nursing degree program has a WCC I'll be sure to take a photo and upload it to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.133.42.16 (talk) 06:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Origin of WCCs
I reverted edits{}{} by IP address 38.98.191.160. The paper in Journal of Medical Ethics (Huber J Med Ethics. 2003; 29: 364-366) contradicts it. Also, http://www.humanism-in-medicine.org/doc_spring02.pdf states:
 * "The tenth White Coat Ceremony (WCC) for beginning medical students at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons is scheduled for Friday, August 23, 2002. Returning to inspire a new generation of aspiring doctors and the faculty is Dr. Benjamin Carson, the charismatic pediatric neurosurgeon from Johns Hopkins Medical Center, who gave the first unforgettable WCC keynote speech at Columbia in 1993."

Nephron T|C 17:10, 9 August 2008 (UTC)