1
40
1
-
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
URL Address
<a href="http://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-129-9-199811010-00010" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-129-9-199811010-00010</a>
Pages
734–737
Issue
9
Volume
129
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
On white coats and professional development: the formal and the hidden curricula.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Annals of Internal Medicine
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1998
1998-11
Subject
The topic of the resource
Humans; *Curriculum; *Ceremonial Behavior; *Clothing; *Symbolism; Semantics; Medical; *Education
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Wear D
Description
An account of the resource
White coat ceremonies are a recent phenomenon in medical education. Selected as a symbol by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to impress upon medical students the importance of compassion and humility, the white coat has had a long association with all things medical, scientific, and healing. It is also associated with the attributes of purity and goodness traditionally symbolized by the color white. Thus, its selection as the material focus of the white coat ceremony seems natural. This article situates the white coat ceremony as a curricular event and suggests that, in addition to having the meanings cited above, the white coat has other meanings that fall into the realm of the hidden curriculum–it can symbolize caregiving hierarchies and spheres of practice, the social and economic privilege of physicians, and medicine's well-established practices of determining membership in the profession. Finally, this paper suggests several other ceremonies or rituals that may be better than the white coat ceremony for encouraging compassion and humility in medical students.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
<a href="http://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-129-9-199811010-00010" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.7326/0003-4819-129-9-199811010-00010</a>
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Article information provided for research and reference use only. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s).
*Ceremonial Behavior
*Clothing
*Curriculum
*Education
*Symbolism
1998
Annals of internal medicine
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Humans
Medical
NEOMED College of Medicine
Semantics
Wear D