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White coat ceremony
Started by CDO2012
You wouldn't want to know there was blood?
Well, i don't want to wash my coat often.😀
Heh - resourceful!
It would set us apart (again) from the rest of the health care fields.
I've seen some students wear blue coats at some hospitals (Rush comes to mind) - what's that about?
Hey megboo,
CCOM is very nice. I love it, but it's too far for me.
Congrats on the acceptance and have fun at your white coat ceremony. I'm still looking for a school that has a black coat event since black is my favorite color. 🙂
Now you're being difficult.. Just read the previous post.. Picture a ceremony.. You walk up, get coated, recite an oath, etc...
Lol - when I see pics of a black coat ceremony I'll know who you are - you'll be the guy doing leprechaun kicks in the back 😉
I am so excited about the whitecoat ceremony...I know it sounds so silly but I am. I got my acceptance last week (MSUCOM~ Will be so proud to be DO...I know my screen name is Born2BMD but I am a re-app and didn't know nearly enough about DO to have thought about it when creating a screen name!) Anyway, once I found out I was in, I dove head in to being an SDN researcher/lurker. As soon as I found out when my white coat ceremony was I promptly called my dad and told him to save the date....cause just the idea of having my dad (the MD) coat me as a DO student completely solidifies for me now and always MD=DO=Doctor and we all should be so very proud of our accomplishments. Many of us have taken a long road to get here and we have a long road ahead, but let's acknowledge our successes on the road to our future! Congrats all!
Why didn't your dad explain it to you the first time you applied? I wish I had known more about DO's the first time I applied too.
Hey there,
Not too sure why....probably has something to do with the fact that I am 30, have a husband and daughter, live many, many states away from daddy, took 10 years to finish out my undergrad and decide I was going to become a doctor and when I first started applying 3 years ago, I think he thought I was blowing smoke up his a$$. I had a big falling out with my dad years ago, he thought I was gonna throw my life and future away when I ended up taking the more non-trad route. I think I surprised the hell out of him when I moved to AZ, went back to school full time and graduated Summa Cum Laude and decided to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a physician! Also I was kind of flying solo in my decision making processes at the time, and functioning on the support and encouragement of my husband, professors and the physicians that I have worked for over the years! Anyway, I truly wish I hadn't been so DO ignorant when I embarked on the process! Similar to you, with all our life experience as non trads and being truly dedicated to becoming excellent physicians, it doesn't matter what program we attend and what letters we get behind our name we are gonna kick a$$ and take names and be wonderful physicians, that is why I am so excited to be going DO right now....I think as a non trad and a mom aspiring to be a kick a$$ doctor DO is the best route for me! I work for a group of DO's right now and I find them amazing and one in particular is so very inspiring and I feel he is a true testament to the special kind of doctors that become DO's. I have worked for a number of MD's in the past and most recently with my current practice of DO's and they have all been wonderful, I just didn't know enough about the DO philosophy and opportunities available as a physician regardless of those 2 letters behind the name.
As you can guess since I have asked daddy to coat me, with a lot of hard work we have really done a lot to repair our relationship over the years and me following through with everything I told him I was going to do when I got pregnant with my amazing daughter hasn't hurt at all either! Getting accepted to medical school in time for the holidays has just been the icing on the cake!
By the way Texas Triathlete, I've been lurking back on SDN since the end of October (found it again when prepping for interviews) and I've been reading a lot of your posts....you strike me as quite a together guy with a similar mindset and I am wishing you and all of my soon to be colleagues all the best as we get ready to dive into the Class of 2012!
Do you feel like, coming from where you've come from, you have come to get used to being successful as an underdog, and going the DO route gives you the same kind of motivation?
I know that it does with me, and that I will probably perform better at a DO school than I would have at an MD school because of it.
I know that, in reality, it isn't typically a big disadvantage to go this route, but some people think it is, and I am looking forward to showing them who their daddy is.
I know that it does with me, and that I will probably perform better at a DO school than I would have at an MD school because of it.
I know that, in reality, it isn't typically a big disadvantage to go this route, but some people think it is, and I am looking forward to showing them who their daddy is.
