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.

By Linda Satter

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine welcomed 175 new medical students to its Little Rock and Fayetteville campuses in an Aug. 9 white coat ceremony attended by hundreds of friends, family and other well-wishers.

A tradition for incoming medical students, the ceremony followed a week of orientation before classes started Aug. 12.

It began with several distinguished speakers offering words of wisdom from the Robinson Center Performance Hall stage in Little Rock. Most of the students, who are starting medical school on the main campus, watched from the first several rows, while 19 freshmen at the Fayetteville campus participated through a live feed from the Schmieding Center in Springdale.

UAMS College of Medicine Welcomes 175 Students at Joint White Coat Ceremony in Little Rock, NWA