General Medicine students take the College of Medicine Students’ Oath at a ceremony in Doha.
DOHA: A group of 46 first-year General Medicine students took the College of Medicine Students’ Oath and donned the symbolic white coat in the 1st Annual White Coat Ceremony of Qatar University College of Medicine (QU-CMED) that was held on Saturday at Al Areen Hall, Marriott Marquise Hotel.
Among the 46 students, 17 are Qataris.
The event aims to celebrate the first-year General Medicine students who completed their transition year and entered the Medicine programme. It is designed to acknowledge their commitment to the profession and reassert values of compassion, professionalism, and dedication to patient care as they enter the profession.
The ceremony drew over 150 attendees including former Qatar Minister of Public Health and Cardiologist Dr Hajar Ahmed Hajar
Al Binali, QU VP for Medical Education and CMED Dean Dr Egon Toft, CMED Interim Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Deputy Chief of Staff for Graduate Medical Education at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Dr Abdullatif Al Khal, Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP) Acting CEO and Accreditation Department Manager Dr Samar Aboulsoud, as well as CMED students and their families, faculty, and staff. “The White Coat Ceremony is a milestone at which the medical community welcomes students as future doctors. But the journey that led them to this day did not start when they were accepted into the medical school a year ago. It started when they were children, and continued for years throughout which their families prepared, educated, nurtured, and supported them,” said Dr Toft.
