Main ContentLong Coat Ceremony
![Newly-coated fourth year students recite the Hippocratic Oath.](/som/Departments and Offices/SOM Administrative Offices/SOM Student Affairs/Images/Long-Coat.jpg)
As the final coating of our medical students, the Long Coat ceremony symbolizes the passage from student doctor to physician. Embroidered and customized to their future residency program, these coats are a send-off of UMMC students to residencies across the country.