WCMC-Q Welcomes New Class of Doctors-in-Training
The 2010 entering medical students wear the physician’s traditional
white coat after the ceremony. With them, front row, center, left to
right, are Ravinder Mamtani, M.D., acting associate dean for
admissions and student affairs, Dean Javaid Sheikh, M.D., and Lyuba
Konopasek, M.D., associate dean for medical education.
The young men and women of the 2010 entering medical class took their first steps into the world of medicine Thursday at the 6th annual White Coat Ceremony at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
Forty students participated in the ceremony, considered a traditional rite of passage where the new doctors-in-training first don the symbolic emblems of their new roles as doctors.
"As they don their white coats, they acknowledge the responsibilities and obligations of their chosen profession and commit themselves to both compassionate patient care and scientific excellence," said Dr. Javaid I. Sheikh, dean of WCMC-Q.
"Today I am harvesting the result of the hard work I did during the past three years," said Abdulwahed Zainel, graduate of both the Pre-medical and Foundation Programs and a Hughes Scholars researcher this summer. "I am really excited for that. It’s an honor for a student to get his white coat and to be called a doctor-in-training.
Abdulwahed Zainel dons the white coat with the
help of Dean Sheikh.
Other members of the class were part of the WCMC-Q Debate Team who took part in the 30th World Universities Debating Championship in Turkey, the Education City service learning project in Indonesia, and the Education City Football League championship-winning team. They have represented WCMC-Q through the QF Radio show Campus Buzz, the Education City Programming Board, and the Leadershape program.
Attended by student’s families and friends as well as WCMC-Q faculty and administrators, the ceremony was the culmination of two days of orientation for the new medical students, and was followed by a reception.
By Chris Gibbons
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