Time to Suit Up: University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville holds White Coat Ceremony for Class of 2025
April 4, 2022
The University of South Carolina (UofSC) School of Medicine Greenville is set to host its annual White Coat Ceremony for the class of 2025 on Saturday, April 2, 2022, with Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, Meenu Jindal, as keynote speaker.
The ceremony will be held at Fluor Field at the West End, the host field of the Greenville Drive, at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. April Buchanan, Associate Dean for the Office of Medical Education, Robin LaCroix, Pediatrics Professor, and Lee Madeline, Associate Professor of Radiology, will be personally donning the white coats of four Prisma Scholars.
This ceremony celebrates an essential milestone in the lives of first-year medical students, a rite of passage where students receive their white coats and pledge their commitment to the medical profession while dedicating themselves to the health of the future patients they will serve. Dr. Jonathan Gleason, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at Prisma Health, will preside over the ceremony alongside Dean Marjorie Jenkins.
“We are proud to have played an important role in the journey leading up to this occasion for the medical students,” said Jonathan Gleason, MD, Executive Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer, Prisma Health. “Our partnership with the medical school brings hands-on clinical experience to our learners, with more than 1,100 Prisma Health physicians serving as medical school faculty. The clinical training and mentoring students receive at our facilities are critical components of the high-quality medical education provided by the medical school.”
Two primary goals of the UofSC School of Medicine Greenville are to equip their future physicians in the best way possible and to improve the overall health of South Carolinians. This commitment to patients everywhere is made possible by the long-standing collaboration and responsibility between the UofSC School of Medicine Greenville and Prisma Health in the Upstate. Because of this partnership between the two Greenville entities, the School of Medicine Greenville is able to provide its medical students with hands-on clinical experience while utilizing leading-edge technology, allowing future physicians to learn from some of the best clinicians in medicine.
“The School of Medicine Greenville celebrates its tenth anniversary this year., but many may not know that our school grew from a dedication and commitment of the health care system and Greenville community to create a different kind of medical school. One that prepares future doctors for the complex medical care environment in which they will practice. We have succeeded in fulfilling this vision as one of the most innovative medical schools in the country.
Our strong partnership with Prisma Health benefits our students by providing one of the best clinical learning environments in the country, a robust research environment and generous support of medical student scholarships,” said Marjorie Jenkins, Dean of the School of Medicine Greenville. “The white coats which our students receive showcase our partnership by representing both Prisma Health and the School of Medicine Greenville logos.”
This collaboration with Prisma Health in the Upstate benefits future physicians at the medical school and directly impacts the surrounding Greenville, SC community, providing better-equipped doctors for residents and future patients.
About UofSC School of Medicine Greenville
Through a synergistic partnership between the state’s largest university and the state’s largest public health system, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, opened the doors in 2012 to welcome its charter class. The educational experience offered at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is unique as students are immersed in the healthcare delivery system from their first week and are taught by experienced biomedical educators and clinical faculty from Prisma Health using a state-of-the-art integrated curriculum. University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville’s goal is to educate master clinicians imbued with medical knowledge, committed to care of the total patient, competent in technical skills and cognizant of population health principles. More information about the University of South Carolina School of Medicine can be found here.
