Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology Students Don White Coats in Ceremony

By Ben Boulden

UAMS College of Health Professions Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology students slipped their arms into the sleeves of their white coats for the first time and celebrated the beginning of their postgraduate studies.

At the department’s White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 30, each student walked to the front of the auditorium, and two faculty members held up the coats as they put them on. Nine of the students at the gathering are studying for a degree in the Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) program, and 20 are in the Master of Science (M.S.) in Communications Sciences in Disorders program for speech-language pathology.

Greta Robinson, Ph.D., a member of the department’s faculty, opened the ceremony and said, “I like to think of the white coats as cloaks of compassion, which is what they are.”

Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology Students Don White Coats in Ceremony

Along with faculty, students in the audiology and speech-language pathology programs gather for photo after the White Coat Ceremony.