DENTAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA: White Coat Ceremony
In July, the Dental College of Georgia welcomed the Class of 2028 into a time-honored rite of passage:
the White Coat Ceremony.
T is symbolic tradition marks the beginning of students’ hands-on patient care experiences and serves as a powerful reminder of their responsibility to provide ethical, compassionate, and competent care, alongside continued classroom learning. As Vice Dean Dr. Kevin Frazier shared during the ceremony, the White Coat Ceremony was fi rst introduced in 1989 at the University of Chicago, with the now widely adopted format established in 1993 by Dr. Arnold P. Gold at Columbia University. Designed to
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place humanism at the heart of healthcare education, the ceremony has since spread to nearly every accredited medical and dental school worldwide. Dr. Frazier brought the tradition to the Dental College of Georgia in 2003, and it has become a defi ning moment in every DCG student’s journey. T e event is made even more meaningful by the participation of distinguished alumni, student volunteers, and the personal class pledge that each cohort writes and signs together.
Class President Colton Villa addressed
his peers with humor, gratitude, and refl ection, thanking faculty, supporters, and classmates for their role in making this moment possible. He emphasized that while the white coat is a symbol of professionalism and clinical responsibility, it also represents
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