The White Coat Ceremony: Welcome to the Medical Profession
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. ctribble@virginia.edu.
Abstract:
We have written about a number of the transitions, or 'lurches,' that most of us in medicine encounter as we move through the various stages of education and training in our profession. Some of our prior musings have addressed the transition into a Surgery Clerkship or a Surgery externship in the third or fourth years of medical school, respectively, as well as transitions into internship, the senior years of a Surgery residency, and a new job after completing Thoracic Surgery training. [Tribble: 2019, 2021, 2018, 2021, 2022].
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