Class of 2022 White Coat Ceremony | Weill Cornell Medicine

hi everybody good afternoon faculty family staff friends and most importantly the class of 2020 to welcome this afternoon to our white coat ceremony [Music] my name is Dana Zepeda dr. Dana Zepeda I'm the associate dean of Student Affairs I'm also a pulmonary and critical care physician here at the Medical Center I oversee orientation and it's really my pleasure to welcome our students we've met already luckily and their family and friends you know this this journey to becoming a physician is a long one it's a wonderful one but we really do need the support of our family and friends so thank you all for coming both the folks in the room here and and those watching us today live streamed upstairs and and also people who will watch our video after today's event so you know I always say that we believe being a doctor is the best job in the world there are very very few professions where you get to measure your impact on people and their lives literally daily this job gives you incredible perspective it really teaches you what's important in life and we are all a team so we all put these white coats on you walk around the Medical Center and you see not only doctors but nurses and physical therapists occupational therapists physician assistants all sorts of people who are part of our team and the thing that brings our team all together is the care for our patients we really we try hard to cure them we try hard to treat them and we certainly try to comfort them so today in this very public setting about 25 years after these sort of ceremonies were invented I'll say we you know we help you Don your white coat for the first time and it's really where we say welcome to our team here at Weill Cornell we say welcome to our family to the parents in the audience and the loved ones we we will take care of them we promise and we really we really welcome you today we are very thankful to the maus foundation who not only pay for the white coats that you'll Don today but also have started the dr. Paul misc of it's fun for stethoscopes which you will get as you know today so thank you very much as always for that support and so finally without any further I'm very excited to introduce to you our senior associate dean for education dr. Barbara Hempstead so dr. Hempstead as the senior associate dean she really runs all of the medical education here at Weill Cornell so you're gonna get to know her very well she has a lot of different facets of running that position and she is a graduate of Tufts University she created she finished her MD and her PhD it's at Washu and she's really been here her whole career so she did her residency in internal medicine as well as her fellowship and Emmet ology oncology here at the Medical Center and she's functioned in many many roles so in addition to being a physician here she was the chief of the division of hematology and oncology she was our Dean of faculty development and now she's a senior associate dean for education so thank you very much dr. Hempstead so thank you dr. savetti it's really a pleasure to see you all here filling this room with your bright faces and enthusiasm I'm really thrilled to welcome both the students the faculty their families everyone who helped get our wonderful students here today we're really excited to celebrate transitions the formal transition of you as a student into our family here at Weill Cornell and let's not overlook this really symbolic act that we're going to undertake of helping you Don your coats because it's really a symbol as to how we as your physicians and teachers will help all of you on your journey to become really superb young physicians I'd like to take a few minutes to introduce some of the faculty who will serve as coders in just a few minutes you've already met with doctors a petty I think all the students know her well already from the last several days of orientation and I'm going to be introducing dr. Choi and dr. freeze in just a few minutes but let's first start with dr. Peter MARSOC he's the associate dean of curricular affairs a professor of psychiatry and also the course director for the second year health illness and disease course and he's going to be teaching for all of the students your next course at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow so be on time dr. Chuck Bardis is the associate dean of admissions and a professor of clinical medicine our curriculum has three themes and he is one of the theme leaders for the physician ship area and as admission Dean he knows all of you because he helped with Allison Smith and the other members of the admissions department choose you to come here to medical school we also want to recognize dr. Sibel Clem Stroh our associate dean of academic affairs and a professor of clinical psychiatry she's going to get to know every one of the students very very well because she's one of the individuals who helps you choose your career undertake your match and find your passion in terms of what type of physician you're really going to be I'd then like to introduce dr. Allie fine who is our associate dean of affiliations and he helps to work with all of our affiliate hospitals which provide our students with an amazingly wide array of training opportunities he's a professor of clinical medicine and a clinical health care policy and research our next individual is dr. Joseph T he's assistant dean of the clinical curriculum and also the Louis and Rachelle Rudin foundation educational scholar an associate professor of neurology he's very very involved in the curriculum he teaches in many roles including in the brain and behavior course and in the neurology clerkship and you'll get to know him very well over the next four years dr. richard cohen is a wild cornell alum and a clinical professor of medicine he's also one of our key liaisons to our alumni and has been a leader in fun in the fundraising campaign focused on education dr. liu drusen is next sitting right next to him he's also a Weill Cornell alum and the professor of clinical medicine and healthcare policy and research and a past president of our alumni the Association he's one of the most trusted advisors and mentors to our medical student and keeps in close contact with all of our alumni dr. Keith o Scalia is also sitting right here associate professor of clinical medicine and one of our esteemed internists here at Weill Cornell you'll get to know him actually very soon because he runs as unit leader one of our courses called the leap program in which you'll be paired with physicians all over the Manhattan area dr. Joffe Innes is another member here today another Cornell alum and he's the e William Davis professor of medical ethics and holds professorships in many departments medicine medicine psychiatry and medical ethics in neurology our students will have a chance to meet him and did actually this morning during leading the session on the Hippocratic oath which you'll all participate in in a few minutes dr. Paul miss kovetz is another Weill Cornell alum and a past president of our Alumni Association clinical professor of medicine and it's in his name that the stethoscope fund was awarded doctoral stoney metoo II is also here he's a professor of anatomy you're going to get to know dr. Matua very well starting on Monday okay he teaches the foundational lessons in anatomy and his generous knowledge is really treasured by our students and finally dr. carl crawford is also in attendance he's an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell program director in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology of the fellowship program and a mentor to so many of our trainees in this field of study now today we really are talking about a day about beginnings and I urge you to start right now and keep not only the beginning but also the end in mind where will you be in four plus years for some of you the plus is gonna be a little bit more us an md/phd I know sometimes we don't know quite where that end is gonna be but you'll get there you'll get there I want you to think about what success looks like okay as a seasoned physician you will be serving society by caring for patients listening to them comforting them occasionally and hopefully more than occasionally curing them but maintaining a positive work/life balance being a friend a partner potentially a parent being an innovator particularly those of you who are going into new scientific world's understanding medical and designing new medical practices that impact patient care and population health you as a class have tremendous promise and we as a school are dedicated to helping you reach your full potential so I'd like to turn now to our Dean and introduce him so dr. Augustine choi is the dean of wild cornell medicine and provost for medical affairs at cornell university he came to New York City in 2013 from Harvard where he was the Parker Francis professor of medicine and chief of pulmonary and critical care at the Brigham Hospital he came to our institution here as the chairman of medicine and the physician in chief at New York Presbyterian Hospital he received his medical degree from the University of Louisville and completed his residency at Duke University followed by a fellowship in pulmonology and critical care at Hopkins he served on the faculty and staff at Johns Hopkins Yale University of Pittsburgh bringing all that expertise to us as chief of pulmonary allergy and critical care medicine he's a distinguished physician scientist with expertise in the pathology and biology of lung disease as the author of over 300 patience 16 book chapters and 70 reviews a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American physicians he's currently funded by multiple ARRA ones and program project grants and is an innovator in all aspects of the academic mission he has a tremendous commitment to the training of the next generation of healthcare and scientific leaders having mentored more than 70 trainees and faculty members and if that weren't enough he's our esteemed Dean and provost for medical affairs since 2017 above and beyond this resume he's a thoughtful man a wise mentor who has been highly involved in the in our educational mission and it's really my pleasure to introduce him to you as and to welcome him [Applause] thank you doctor Hampstead in good afternoon everyone good afternoon class of 2022 I'm honored to really welcome all of you to the 2018 white coat ceremonies at Weill Cornell Medicine and to share a very special occasion with the new students the family members and friends I have a pretty good sense of how many of you in the back field today Mary and I a son would have have a son was a physician and a medical and is another son who is in medical school so I've been on the other side of the white coat ceremony not too far long ago so it's just a momentous occasion for all of you I know that this is a big milestone both for our students for the family members loved ones and friends who supported them along the way getting to this point is a big achievement I'd like to congratulate all of you in earning a place in this fabulous class you earned it and so deserving so congratulations again you are here because of your DNA which feels a passion compassion and the utmost dedication to become the best doctor you can be to heal your patients going forward and since you'll be spending the next four years or some of you eight years together I'll tell you a little bit about you and classmates the class of 2023 - has an extraordinary diversity of cultural racial ethnic academic backgrounds 52 percent of women we men always lose we know that 24 percent are from groups underrepresented in medicine we're proud of that number 10 students are Canadians graduates of Cornell University Upstate in Ithaca and 10 of you have earned master's degree and one of you hold a PhD the group has significant global ties with members born in 18 different countries now that's pretty impressive five continents I believe and representing and all of you collectively speak 29 languages that's pretty impressive students have engaged in lengthy experience abroad including working with the United Nations for greedy programs to name a few - students alumni about travelers summers research research program a unique and pioneering program that Weill Cornell assessed establish 50 years ago to provide students pre-med students from underrepresented population exposure the clinical research basic research and importantly in healthcare disparities research for eight weeks in on this campus and two of you are products of that program we're very proud of that one of you graduated from the Tri institutional gateway program which is a similar program practically all of you have significant experience in research and some of you Gates Millennium Amgen and Rotary Foundation Global's grant scholars in addition artistic talent is another distinguishing feature of class 2022 Chuck I'm glad I didn't apply to this class our students play a range of instruments ranging from the harp steel pan I to Google that want to know what that is and taiko drum which I remember going to Disneyland or watching the wonderful type of drums play in the Japanese Expo Center and the dancers would train an African Latin traditional Indian and the traditional Chinese lion dancing styles among the many members of a class who have encouraged others to explore their own artistic interest is a student who co-founded a writing program in a clinic serving the homeless students have also worked as archaeologists congressional interns EMTs members of the group dedicated to chakra studies among many other positions Weill Cornell Medicine takes a great pride in diversity great pride in in student body which I've already told you today and committed to fostering a culture of inclusion throughout the entire community which includes individuals for under represented groups immigrants daca recipients and those who are LGBTQ our goal is to be a leader in diversity in academic medicine and to support all of our students as well as our faculty staff trainees in reaching their full potential I hope all of you will participate in our diversity week next April of 2019 an annual tradition in Weill Cornell Medicine that hamster alluded to is the camp experience welcoming the new students I apologize for the humidity and heat in Ithaca area hours there just last week not during the same weekend thanks to the outstanding organizational and leadership skills about current medical students the class of 22 was able to get to know each other during a supervised wilderness weekend in the Ithaca area I want to ask you any questions about that each year this student initiative emphasizing collaboration and team spirit provides a warm and fitting introduction to Weill Cornell Medicine on a personal note I'm delighted to welcome each of you class of 2020 to will get to meet and speak in small groups be it town hall meetings regular dinner meetings our apartment Mary and I are foodies so sign up early and even monthly breakfast meetings at your lounge hot breakfast guaranteed and I'm really looking forward to getting to all of you how you got here and your journey and your path importantly how we can mentor you to become the best physician and doctor you can be today is a very exciting day you're receiving your white coats and joining a rich tradition of excellence at Weill Cornell medicine that stretches back 120 years we're actually celebrating a hundred and twentieth birthday since we were founded in 1898 both women and men have studied under the most distinguished clinicians and scientists in their fields and have gone on to achieve great things we are thrilled that you will be continuing this legacy of collaborations initiative and service that characterizes Weill Cornell Medicine welcome to our culture and welcome to our family we also know that you'll be stretched in different ways during your time here and we'll face a variety of challenges please remember the dean's office the educational leadership your teachers your mentors your administrative staff and your peers are all here to support you it's important to do well in your studies and on the floors on the wards but more importantly is you need to be healthy and maintain your well-being and to develop habits of mindfulness and stress reduction they'll carry you throughout your careers take advantage of the well and wild resources available to you and reach out if we need to talk we'll just come by and chant we're here all for you finally as he progressed in his studies I encourage you to find a mentor who can help you develop your particular interest a mentor serves as an important role models for students and physicians throughout their careers and can also provide valuable guidance on maintaining a healthy work-life balance once a mentor always a mentor is a beautiful credo we all like to claim so congratulations again class of 2022 and best of luck has embarked on this new phase of your lives and see you very soon thank you very much [Applause] thank you so much Dean joy it's now my pleasure to introduce to you our white coat speaker for this year dr. Laura freeze dr. Furi s' is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of New York Presbyterian and this includes New York Presbyterian Hospital New York Presbyterian Regional Hospital Network you're gonna have to make sure I don't forget anything here New York Presbyterian physician services New York Presbyterian population and community health she joined the hospital system in 2003 as vice president for medical affairs and since then has had roles as chief medical officer senior group vice president and chief operating officer for NYP Weill Cornell NY Pete Westchester and NYP lower Manhattan dr. Freese is a key figure in academic medicine at New York Presbyterian she's responsible for implementing a patient-centered strategic vision and culture across the enterprise she's chairperson of the National Institute of Health clinical Center Hospital Board last year she was named among the top 25 CEOs in the country by modern health care prior to joining New York Presbyterian doctor Friese spent four years as vice chair in Columbia's Department of orthopedic surgery a pediatric orthopedic surgeon dr. Freese has been a Columbia faculty member since 1993 and retains her appointment as the associate clinical professor of Orthopedic Surgery she graduated summa lot and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University and AOA from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons she also holds a master's in public health from the mailman school at Columbia it's really my pleasure to introduce dr. Laura Freese to deliver the whitecoats thank you dr. Hempstead thank you dr. savetti dr. Choi for the privilege of speaking to this class today and good afternoon everyone so it's my pleasure to be here to welcome you on behalf of all of New York Presbyterian now clearly your members of this fine medical school but starting right now you're also members of the New York Presbyterian family so thirty-five years ago I was sitting in a chair much like yours across town my white coat ceremony went something like this go to the book store buy a white coat put it on and part of what I think is just so wonderful about this type of ceremony which was only invented 25 years ago is that you get to celebrate this symbolism so it was dr. Arnold Gould who we credit for coming up with the first white coat ceremony 25 years ago I had the privilege of knowing dr. Gould and I think like everybody in medicine I thought why didn't I come up with that idea it's so simple yet so powerful and that's really what the white coat is as you heard dr. Choi say it's a symbol so I would stay on that theme of simplicity today and speak to you about three simple principles that I think will help you I hope will help you as you start on this journey and all of you who are parents in this audience I believe are going to laugh when you hear exactly what I'm recommending because Isis backed like me you've been talking about these simple principles to your sons and daughters since they were very young so three simple principles here gratitude resilience and respect so let me start with gratitude so first I just love that there is this kind of ceremony where you all have people who are here with you today I hope one of the things that you're gonna do today all of you in this class starting out is thank there's people who came today to be with you and all of those people who helped you get to this place today I know there were a lot of them there gonna be a lot of people who helped you get through medical school be sure to thank them it's good principle to thank your professors and your doctors who are gonna help you get through but don't forget about your fellow students because medicine is perhaps the ultimate team sport you're gonna need them and everybody already laughed a minute ago about anatomy lab and what you're about to embark on its traditional for everyone who goes through an anatomy class to stop and thank those people who gave up their lives so that we could learn right think about that in giving up their bodies I should say but don't forget about all of those patients who are still alive that you'll have an opportunity to think you're gonna be there when a woman gives birth to her first child and you're gonna be there when someone gets this devastating diagnosis and you're gonna be in the room when someone passes from this life incredibly intimate and just how privileged are we to share in that think about what you're gonna learn from all of that in a way this is that incredible honor and privilege that we have as physicians that few others ever can experience so I ask you to always take a minute and appreciate those around you who are helping you become the best physician that you can be gratitude now my second principle is resilience and you heard a little bit about this a few minutes ago from dr. joy medicine and medical school our hard work you know that already you're gonna be tested and I don't mean on exams but you're gonna have those two I mean well just think about the patient's I was just talking about you're gonna experience some very challenging things with them it's gonna be a lot of hard work think about the knowledge that you're gonna be acquiring in this very short period of time you know if you let this experience overwhelm you it will you will lose so much because it will be overwhelming if you let it and I suspect that you will be tempted at times to give up things that you need so sleep exercise healthy eating I also suspect you'll be tempted to give up things that you love your hobbies time with your friends time with your family don't do that you need some balance here and you will be a better doctor for but it will take resilience and I suggest if things get you down maybe I should say when they get you down that you return to why you decided to enter medicine in the first place and maybe return to my first principle because it turns out that being grateful actually makes you more resilient gratitude resilience now my last principle respect so as soon as you put on those white coats you all have to know that people are going to think you're doctors and they're going to start asking you for medical advice maybe as soon as the reception when we get over there don't do it you don't actually know any medicine yet but there is a way that you can make a difference in that white coat starting right now you can be a role model for everyone around you and you can start by immediately modeling a culture of respect now what do I mean by that a culture of respect what's just what it sounds like I mean treating everyone with respect treating everyone as a valuable human being so here I'm going to go back and talk for a minute about dr. Arnold Gould now he embodied that culture of respect he was someone that I got to watch from the time that I was a medical student it was a pediatric neurologist but everybody could see this you just had to watch him with his patients or with their parents or indeed with any member of his team he made everyone feel as though they mattered and at new york-presbyterian along here with Wilde Cornell we always tried to embody this credo it's a very simple document it speaks in simple language it spells out what we mean by a culture of respect it states things that we will do like believe the best of each other things that we won't do like tolerate abusive language or behaviors and it states what we believe in that every person and every role matters so I ask for your respect for every patient that you will encounter and of course for all your professors but in addition to every doctor I ask for your respect of every nurse every therapist every pharmacist every housekeeper every person who serves the food every person who maintains our facilities I could go on and on but you take the point and that's because each of them has a role to play in the care that we're delivering and when I say that every role counts what I'm really asking is for you to notice every one of those people on your team I want you to appreciate them I want you to thank them there's that gratitude again people look up to doctors so your words in your actions they mean so much now I think we all understand this concept of the white coat and what it means you now have that white coat and in this day and age even here in America when some of our leaders are actively sowing seeds of disrespect you in that white coat can be a role model of respect so I think that having that white coat on is gonna feel a little funny to all of you that's normal you'll get used to it you're about to enter into what is a magical profession I still feel that so many decades in and as I think about what you're going to be doing with your careers it's amazing it's fair to say that the medicine that you are going to practice is very sophisticated just think about what's going to happen in terms of Technology artificial intelligence the diseases that we're going to be able to cure that today are deadly today we can't even imagine some of this so yes what you're going to experience what you're going to learn what you're going to practice is definitely more sophisticated than anything that I've been through but I submit to you that the principles of how to be a good doctor dare I say how to be a good human being go back to some very simple concepts gratitude resilience and respect so congratulations to the class of 2022 I can't wait to see what you will achieve thank you [Applause] thanks so much dr. Furi and I'd like to invite dr. Augustine Choi to the podium he's gonna be reading the Hippocratic oath and for all the students this is the very same oath that you will be taking four years or more from now when you graduate in Carnegie Hall so listen to the words carefully thank you thank you that chemists ed thank you that the furries so in our profession is an ancient custom that no one may be admitted into the ranks of physicians who has not first expressly accepted its responsibilities as set forth in an oath at Weill Cornell as in many other medical colleges we can use an oath that bears the name of Hippocrates in the 2,000 years since its creation the Hippocratic oath has been revised many times to reflect changes in the practice of medicine while remaining faithful to his fundamental values about 10 years ago a committee of students and faculty a while Cornell met to revise the Hippocratic oath which is administered at commencement ceremonies the revised oath was first taken a commencement of the class of 2005 and has been used ever since this morning you students had this chance to explore the history and meaning of the oath with dr. Joe Finn's you will not take the oath until you graduate on this day however when you down your white coats for the first time as medical students I will read it so all can hear as you listen to the oath I ask you to reflect upon its meaning as you start your course of study here at Weill Cornell and through all our years as physicians so the Weill Cornell Medical College Hippocratic oath I do some leave out to that which I value and hold most dear that I will honor the profession of Medicine be just and generous to his members and help sustain the in the service to humanity that just as I have learned from those who preceded me so while I instruct those who follow me in the science and the art of medicine that I will recognize the limits of my knowledge and pursue lifelong learning to better care for the sick and to prevent illness then I will seek the counsel of others when they are more expert so as the fulfill my obligation to those who have entrusted to my care then I will not withdraw for my patients in time of need that I will lead my life and practice my art with integrity and honor using my power wisely that whatsoever I shall see or hear of the lives of my patients that is not fitting to be spoken I will keep in confidence that into whatever house I shall enter it shall be for the good of the sick that I will maintain the sacred trust holding myself far aloof from wrong from corrupting from the tempting of others to vice that above all else I will serve the highest interest of my patients through the practice of my science and my art that I will be an advocate for patients in need and strive for justice in the care of the sick I turn now to my calling promising to preserve its finest traditions with the reward of a long experience in the joy of healing I make this vow freely and upon my honor I'm thrilled to welcome you into Wilde Cornell Medical College family as students and as you know and as our physicians of the future thank you [Applause] so we've spent a lot of time talking about white coats now I'd like to ask dr. Chuck Bardis associate dean of admissions to come to the podium he's gonna be reading the name of the students who will come to the front of the auditorium and our faculty who will help the students Don their white coats and then receive their stethoscope so in a moment I'll ask the newly named medical students to come forward to receive their white coats and although there stethoscopes the white coats will be given them and actually put on them by distinguished faculty and then we'll ask for of our second year medical students to give them their set the scopes and these are Maya Feldman Benjamin Jackson max Moore and Tatiana Ricci ho first I'll ask doctors Choi hemstead Cohen and furries to come forward please and we'll be inviting students to come forward in groups of four first Aloha tobe M holidays arou Daniel Alphonso Stephanie as a party Evan alma 'the [Applause] Alaura Basu Sebastian vitae gain Shaima busi I owed Kirsten bread Vic [Applause] Caleb Broten Frederica book Pamela copy on Jeremy Chang happy nama chatterjee Darren Chen Dora yung Chen Hanna Chen Monisha chitin vez Brianna Christopher's Adrian Clermont and a Cornelius Schecter Samantha Cronin Philippe Dandrea Pauline done ye Andrew Duong and with with thanks to our faculty I'll ask the second faculty group please to come forward doctors drusen fine Finn's and Crawford oh so made a a new Bukhari Edel air igloo colleague for whom Brea Vogler William Forge Kate fruit Minh Tyler Garmin Radhika gilsu car Nathaniel Goldblatt yen day Grell Lily goo shared REO guadix amber Hamilton Kathryn Hahn Gregory Hahn Sarah hood off' Evan Hoenig was wash if Islam Xian Xang Neal Kelley catchin Kim Julie Kim Shawn Kim Julia Klein David : Alexander Koo Hana Krinsky jomkwan [Applause] and with the thanks to the faculty I'll ask our third group to come forward doctors Clem straw the Scalia Marzu and safety Emily lang Nahum a VCO so Justin Lee Jessica Lu [Applause] Mako's Wang Danny lon Jezz Marsten susana Martinez Diaz rooks Martino page McMahon Rhiannon Christine Miller Jaime Montemayor Fatima Natalia Morales Priyanka nari on koi nian SEO so Agha GA Karen oh Anthony Palillo Sabrina pen you Shen pen Nicola Pereira Meredith Polly anon spoonula angina Rohan Raja Sam rush kovitch a visible Resnick Rachel Rosengard David Rosenthal and I'll ask our final group of coders to come forward once again doctors Choi Miss covitz Matua and Zepeda Melanson do Charle at the end so they carry Sha Tsui Chien Shaw [Applause] Arielle Shalev novita Sharma Daniel Shin amber Simmons Suniti Singh Cheyenne Smith Zachary Smith Carolyn Stuart Michael Xing Nicholas Verni say Victoria Vaughn Salkin Paul Walker and sin Wang Robert was niak Jimmy shah jahan Yin [Applause] James Yoder Jonathan you George hakushi low Lisa Jang now this gel and ruju the class of 22 [Applause]

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Length: 60min 9sec (3609 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 28 2018