White Coat Ceremony/Orientation Presentation Form

The White Coat Ceremony has been set for Friday afternoon, August 8, 2025 at 2:00pm.  You will need to be in your assigned seat by 1:40.  You will receive a white clinic jacket symbolic of the professional responsibilities that you are assuming.  A reception will follow the ceremony.  Family members are invited to attend both the ceremony and the reception (please keep the number of family members to a maximum of 6).

For the White Coat Ceremony on Friday, you must be in your seats by 1:40pm.  You will be seated in pews and if you are late, everyone will know because you most likely will have to walk down the center aisle and climb over several people to get to your seat.  You should not wear suit coats, jackets or blazers to the White Coat Ceremony, as the white coat will not fit over them.  Also, women may wish to consider not wearing heels to the ceremony.  There are large open hole air conditioning grates that you may have to walk over.  You will also be walking a considerable distance after the ceremony to get to the group photograph location and then to the reception. 

Please complete the form below by June 12, 2025.

You will need to sign into your CWRU google account before you submit the form below.  You will also need to submit 3 fun facts and 2-3 photos as part of the form.  These photos can:

Show things you enjoy doing or participating in

Show you participating in things you enjoy

Show things that are important to you

They do not have to have you in them if you do not wish.  As part of orientation, we will show each person's slide with your fun facts and photos on it, and you will introduce yourself and briefly talk about your fun facts or describe your photos.  The photos can pertain to your fun facts, but they are not required to.   Please save your photos in the format of lastname.firstname 1, lastname.firstname 2 and lastname.firstname 3 before submitting them.  Also please limit each of your fun facts to 3-10 words if possible.  Each photo should be less than 10 MB.