MEDIA ADVISORY: July 30, 2012
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School of Medicine to hold Annual White Coat Ceremony on August 10

Media invited to attend ceremony welcoming incoming Class of 2016

RENO, Nev.—

WHAT: University of Nevada School of Medicine’s 17th Annual White Coat Ceremony

WHEN: Friday, August 10 at 5 p.m.

WHERE: Joe Crowley Student Union, 4th Floor Ballroom at the University of Nevada, Reno

WHO: 69 incoming members of the medical school’s Class of 2016 will participate in the cloaking ceremony which symbolically welcomes them into the health care profession and helps establish a psychological contract for the practice of medicine. The ceremony concludes the students’ orientation week and is part of the School of Medicine’s Family Day celebration.

The University of Nevada School of Medicine, a research-intensive, community-based, statewide medical school, has served Nevada for more than 40 years as its only public medical school. Our mission is improving the health of Nevada’s diverse population through world-class biomedical research, an innovative curriculum integrating basic and clinical sciences, and highly competitive residency and fellowship programs that complement a statewide network of urban and rural clinical facilities. Through targeted growth and investment in research, clinical services and education, we are a resource for improving health care regionally and across the country.