MEDIA ADVISORY: Aug. 10, 2009

Contact: Anne McMillin, APR
Health Science Communications
Office 775-682-9254
Mobile 702-292-4247
amcmillin@medicine.nevada.edu

University of Nevada School of Medicine to hold
13th Annual White Coat Ceremony on August 14

Media invited to attend ceremony affirming incoming Class of 2013

WHAT:   University of Nevada School of Medicine’s 13th Annual White Coat Ceremony

WHEN:   Friday, August 14 at 5 p.m.

WHERE:  Lawlor Events Center, Silver & Blue Room, at the University of Nevada, Reno (note location change from advisory sent July 30)

WHO:    62 new members of the medical school Class of 2013 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.

As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.