A group photo of students with officials at The White Coat ceremony of the College of Medicine at Qatar University.
Doha: The College of Medicine (CMED) at Qatar University (QU) recently organised the Annual White Coat Ceremony.
The event aimed to celebrate the second-year medical students who successfully completed their transition year and entered the medicine programme. It is designed to acknowledge the students’ commitment to the profession and reassert values of compassion, professionalism, and dedication to patient care, as they enter the medical profession. The number of the honoured students reached 97 and out of them 60 were Qataris.
Prof. Asmaa Al Thani, Vice-President of the University for Medical Sciences, congratulated the students, in a message that was presented during the ceremony. She recommended that the students arm themselves with science, perseverance, hard work, patience and pursuit of excellence.
In a statement on this occasion, Dr. Marwan Abu Hijleh, Dean of the College of Medicine at Qatar University, said: “This celebration aims to transfer the students of the College of Medicine from the first-year stage to the second-year stage in the innovative and creative medical programme that depends on the student’s centrality in medical education. It comes as an affirmation of the students’ commitment to the values of the medical profession and patient care.
“Wearing the white coat for the first time means a lot and a lot in the lives of medical students because it signifies the students’ responsibility to become future doctors and devote their lives to practicing the profession in accordance with the highest international and humanitarian standards.”
Dr. Mubarak Bidmos, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Medicine reminded the students to balance their expertise in science with compassion and empathy.
“You will wear white coats in your clinical education training period such as clinical skills sessions, PHCC visits and clinical rotations in hospitals. Therefore, wearing a white coat during these activities gives you a sense of responsibility and privilege,” Dr. Bidmos said.
Dr. Halema Al Faris, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the College of Medicine, congratulated the students, saying: “As Qatar University proudly completed its progress at a steady pace, to be on the verge of entering the list of The best 200 universities in the world, according to the QS rankings for the year 2022, Qatar University ranked 224, jumping from 245th place in the 2021 classification, achieving an increase of 21 positions over its version last year of the same classification.”
She indicated that CMED is striving to occupy advanced positions internationally and globally, and so far, the College has graduated two batches of distinguished doctors who are currently working at Hamad Medical Corporation.
