Distributed October 24, 2001 For Immediate Release |
News Service Contact: Scott Turner
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News and Photo Advisory Brown Medical School to hold white coat ceremony Oct. 27 First-year students in the Brown Medical School will receive white coats during a campus ceremony at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct 27, 2001. Media are welcome to attend the event at Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St., between Brown and Thayer streets. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — At 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2001, first-year medical students will receive white coats, symbolic of their entry into the medical profession. Officially known as the Brown Medical School Ceremony of Commitment to Medicine, the “white coat ceremony” will take place in Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St., between Brown and Thayer streets. The event will be attended by parents and students. Media are welcome. Brown President Ruth J. Simmons and Donald J. Marsh, M.D., dean of medicine and biological sciences, will present opening remarks. For more information, contact Scott Turner at (401) 863-2476 ([email protected]). Who What When Where ###### |