Main ContentStudent Clinician Ceremony
![Third year students receiving their new white coats.](/som/Departments and Offices/SOM Administrative Offices/SOM Student Affairs/Images/M3-Clinician-Ceremony.jpg)
At the end of a medical student’s second year, this ceremony is held as a celebration between classmates of finishing the preclinical curriculum. Students receive a new white coat with their name embroidered on the front as they prepare for their clerkships and rotations of the third and fourth years of medical school. Serving as a rite of passage, this marks the student doctor’s transition to the front lines of medicine where they will put their knowledge from the books into practice.