in and they look pretty much similar to each other but these codes have a special significance attached to them literally these white coats carry the name of the only medical school a nation name f college as long been known for the deep and deeply appreciated by its graduates for being for their teaching and training in the way dr lawrence gratitude was so deep that not an easy road road you have chosen class of two thousand when you have already traveled a long way to get here your decision to become a physician ricard hard work dedication and sacrifice that grit will continue to be required throughout your careers if i can give you one piece of career advice today is to be sure to do something you love something that fulfills ungratified you life in medicine requires too much hard work and sacrifice not to love what you i think you will find as i did that you just destination is not determined by your intellect but by your heart my worst evaluation and all of medical school by far was in pediatrics and any logical medical student were pursuing other specialty but in the end pediatrics was especially the capture of my heart and after nearly four decades i've never regretted that decision donning the white coat today is an important milestone in your journey the codes of visual reminder of the responsibility you now bear for the lives of others soon your coat pockets will be filled with the tools of your trade current care a lot of hardware stethoscopes scopes diagnostic manuals three by five cards with patient histories written on them you'll probably carry a little less baggage and more more likely the hand held devices that have the world of medical knowledge and electronic health records at your fingertips so your pockets may be a little lighter than they were in my day but responsibilities will be just as weighty as anything she's fissions has been in the past the white coat grants you privileged access to your patients lives they will need your help and your compassion i have every confidence that each of you will embrace that responsibility and strive become the competent caring physicians you can be and all those today's ceremony is mostly about you it's also about your family and friends who have made this journey with you they have helped you arrive at this moment and you will continue to need to encourage and support as you continue in your careers so i'd like to ask you to stand turn and give a round of applause the families  their medical student class of twenty twenty one on behalf of the university of vermont l network medical group and the university of vermont medical center and all the medical centers in our network i would like to welcome you to our health care system and a clinic on foreign meant a place you will become intimately familiar with over the next few years congratulations for your accomplishments so far we are a privilege to have you with us your contributions to our economic medical center are a tremendous benefit to everyone from the physicians nurses and health care professional you will work with to the patients and family we all serve i'd like to briefly touch two teams the first one is the importance of teamwork you are starting your carrier at the point of inflection in the world of health care today's health care requires that we work together in a collaborative and innovative way to improve patient care reduce cost promote better health and wellness for depopulation and we serve we are working to create an integrated health care delivery system in our area partnering with other organizations to provide the best care in a streamline accessible way so that patient throughout the region receive the right care and the right place at the right time and where kellett quality is second to now more than ever being a physician is a team sport it's more important today for us to work closely with other members of the health care team to understand that the greatest benefit to patients come from the good work you contribute to the overall effort you are today entering teams of experts that are literally morphing into one expert team the resulting coordination is what our patients expect and that is what will add another level of gratification to your job i have no doubt that you will learn and appreciate at a very deep level the tree graces of teamwork trust respect and integrity the second team i would like to discuss his respons ibility the privilege of caring for our fellow human beings is without equal in their place a supreme responsibility we are invited into our patien life like no one else and often at the most vulnerable time of their life despite all that is changing around us and as your future patient i expect that my family and i will be your first priority when you care for me that you will be well read open minded resp curious and i've had to learn about me i urge you to teach to be generous and to be forgiving to yourself and others as mistakes will be made in closing i would like to applaud you for your commitment to becoming a physician and thank you for choosing us the university of vermont and the university of vermont medical center and our network as your  posts improve people's lives still amazed and make us proud i wish you all the best thank you thank you dean martin and dr de shams hello again it is wonderful to see so many family friends fellow students faculty and staff here to support the class of two thousand and twenty one as they receive their weight codes as many of you are aware and as i mentioned previously this is an important milestone in their medical education members of the class of two thousand and twenty one as your associate dean for students it is an honor for me to celebrate this event with you as a clinician i believe the white coat ceremony to be one of the most significant events in our medical training the ceremony is an opportunity for members of the medical community to welcome you into the profession of medicine however also for you as students to acknowledge and assume the identity and responsibilities of a physician the practice of medicine is a privilege and expects us to demonstrate  integrity altruism empathy and excellence to name a few as physicians and physicians in training we need to consistently demonstrate can groups between expressed values and behavior clinical expertise and a desire to relieve the suffering of others we must have the capacity to put the needs and interests of others before our own the ability to put ourselves in another individual situation giving beyond what is required and having a regard for the autonomy and values of another person these are the attributes of a humanistic doctor the white coat ceremony is a rite of passage that has been expanded to include the entire acknowledging the importance of compassionate care among all health care professionals here at the lerner college of medicine the integrated curriculum is also designed to continuously develop collaboration and college of medicine faculty member who best demonstrates the foundation's ideals of outstanding compassion in the delivery of care respect for patients their families and health care colleagues and clinical excellen we feel that an individual with these attributes is an excellent role model for students entering the profession and so it has become our tradition to have the winner of this award be the keynote speaker at this event it is my pleasure to introduce the lerner college of medicine two thousand and seventeen leonard humanism and medicine award recipient dr marvin as our guest speaker for today's ceremony dr clay coonasses an associate professor of medicine and practices general internal medicine and geriatrics at the adult primary care clinic and whilst in vermont including house calls students who have had the opportunity to work with dr quite coonass nominated him for the two thousand and seventeen leonard t because he demonstrates compassion and sensitivity to emotional needs in the provision of excellent clinical clean care i would like to share a few quotes from his nominations for this award quote his manner of treating patients with the utmost respect and compassion is second to none he is a true role model for our medical students and residents particularly those with an interest in caring for older adults quote whether he is with medical learners or when he is by himself he is truly amazing in dealing with his geriatric patients and their family members he displays great compassion and patience in their multifaceted needs and special management requirements the medical students and residents learn a great deal simply by watching how he skillfully manages the complex interactions that are required he has been an individual and he has been an invaluable mentor to many it is bettison i get to share with you a few a few of the things that have really made the journey worthwhile for me and i think you'll hear a theme here with what everybody else  article i was reading it and it was good to read it again in the beginning of the speech he says to the graduates that he wants to tell them three stories from his life he says that's it no big deal just three stories i really like that part because in the next few years you're all going to worry about all kinds of things that seem like a big deal to learn but often as you go forward in your work it is the things that seem like no big deal that patients will most appreciate and that you may find the most rewarding that's not to say that the big deal things are not important they are but it is so important to keep some perspective about why we do the things we do with that in mind the first thing i want to tell you is sit down and listen that's all just sit down and listen let me show you what i  standing around all staring down at the patient fast forward almost a hundred years and things are a lot cleaner and fortunately there are some some women involved but you can see that still a lot of times it's a bunch of people standing around looking down at the patient in fact in this case they're not even really looking at the patient she wonders what are all these people doing staring at me and then there is the the new elephant in the room the e m r for electronic medical records or each are for electronic health records some people call i and the last thing i want to show you is a little clip from one of my favorite medical rap videos this is a of a fellow named doctors who've been to mania who's very much a real doctor in las vegas right i think we can stop there that's my favorite part so i'll stop there so i hope you future doctors can all avoid being focused like a laser beam on the computer screen i don't mean to rail against computers and in medicine that's not the point at all but but the point is that the history that you take from the patient is still the most important way to get information about the patient in front of you in fact it's the only way to get the basic information that will guide you and your use of all the technology at your disposal today and when you stand over the patient indeed perhaps with your back to the patient and your focus on the computer screen it sends a message to the patient that you're in a hurry to be somewhere else that you have other more important things to do when you sit down and listen it sends the most basic message of caring and you not only get a better medical history you also hear some wonderful human stories and you make some fantastic human connections and it's especially poignant for me to say that today because a patient that i knew for about twenty five years passed away at home last night so no big deal to sit down and listen now let me go back to steve jobs and his commencement address one more minute one of the stories he told that day was he said about love and loss steve jobs of course started apple computers and his parents garage with a friend and in about ten years it had become wildly successful employing thousands of people and then he was fired but his story that day was that over the next five years some great things happened in his life and he says the only thing that kept him going was that he loved what he did he said your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do but what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love what you do there's no question that your work is going to fill a very large part of your lives especially these next several years but you have been given the opportunity to do what you should all researchers this is all truly great work and i hope that you all love what you do so good luck in your futures enjoy the day today and then get back to work thank you the first time i put on my white coat was when my roommate koch and i had the haitian what's your alan and our mentor said you should introduce yourself so i walked my white coat each time the choice is made we never know where it will stop or what it will create who the ripple will of i'd like to tell you a story about choice some time ago there was a very famous orchestra rehearsing for a famous concert in the famous concert hall the concert was a concerto to be played by a very renowned pianist the rehearsal had been long in the members of the orchestra began to complain that they know the piece so well they asked why do we have to practice over and over again the conductor stopped the rehearsal and addressed the members of the orchestra we are rehearsing he said because when we perform we play for three people the person who is listening to the concert for the first time the person was listening to the concert for the last time and the person was paid more money they than they can afford to be there and about the very same time a mother who had been saving bits of money for a long time for this particular concert was buying two tickets for herself and her six year old son with just begun piano lessons w never been to a concert before that night the mother in the song was seated in the concert hall behind the curtain they could hear the instruments tuning up the lights dimmed the mother looked next to her for a six year old son and suddenly the seat was empty empty the curtain opened and there was a boy on stage at the grand piano and he began to play the only piece he knew twinkle twinkle  star as a boy played the very famous pianist came on stage he saw other security guards racing towards a boy the pianist had to make a choice a choice the pianist held his hand up for the security to stop and the pianist sat down next to the boy and said keep playing keep playing he said in the great pianist sitting next to the boy began the harmony of twinkle twinkle little star all the time urging the boy to keep playing and keep playing then the orchestra picked it up and within minutes the hundred pieces of the orchestra or the famous pianists and the six year old boy were playing twinkle twinkle little star in the grand concert hall and they received from the audience a standing ovation a doctor must constantly make decisions choices on the compass of medicine the doctor does so often without knowing the right choice was made i believe as a doctor your single choice the kind that the pianist made to allow that little boy to play tw a wave set out with far reaching effects affecting those who were there and as far reaching as those who have a singing through the story right now to be a doctor in the true sense of the it was a bit blackwell and william harvey and hippocrates and william us all gather around and counsel you that is the volume of the moment that is what your white coat stands for this is a meeting place of the mind and the heart of every one of you have answered destinies call when you decided and order allowed those words i want to be a doctor and every once in a while s have heard the waco itself symbolizes a standard of professionalism trust that must be earned from our patients it is a personally delivered gift of confidence and compassion compassionate approach to medicine and is used by many medical colleges today finally and perhaps most importantly in your right pocket you will find a card with a personal message from an alumni of the learner college of medicine as an alum i truly value the medical education and the mentoring i received here we hope that you are inspired by their words and reach out to your alumni mentor to develop a relationship that will provide you with support and guidance throughout your medical career now i'm delighted to invite dr bill jeffrey senior associate dean for medical education to the podium geoffrey's will be reading the names of the members of the class of tw twenty one along with their hometown and academic degree dr tanya birch associate dean for clinical education will join me in cooking students with their weight coach when their name is read i would also like to invite dean morin to stand joined by  afternoon and let me extend my welcome to all of your plaster the profession and the friends relatives and significant others who have come here to support them on this day i'm going to say the name of each person and you are going to be very tempted to applaud at that point and you can see how it goes but i am going to say other wonderful things about the person and if you wait till the end would be better so daniel bock is from stowe vermont and has a bachelor of science from bates college majoring in biology is from bennington vermont and has a bachelor of science from the university of vermont with a major in communication sciences and disorders underhill vermont and has about science from the university of vermont with a major in biological science jared bomba is from north smithfield rhode island and has about sort of science from st michael's college majoring in physics jonathon borden is from south burlington vermont and has a bachelor of science from the ohio state university main campus with a major in psychology in biology god is from leonard town maryland and has about sort of science from the university of maryland college park majoring in biology and psychology carla is from watertown massachusetts and has a bachelor of arts and a master of arts with a major in biochemistry and bats of arts majoring in psychology from boss university has campbell is from montpelier and has a bachelor of science from the university of new hampshire durham majoring in biochemistry molecular and cellular biology khary carpenter is from bonny doon california and has a bachelor of arts from whitman college with a major in theater and a bachelor of science from metropolitan state university of denver with a major in biology california has a bachelor of science and master of science from the university of california san diego majoring in chemical engineering jack chen his from connecticut and has a bachelor of science from the university of california los angeles majoring in  alexandra churchill is from reading connecticut and has a bachelor of arts from washington university in st louis with a major in biology and psychology cond is from eagle pass texas and has a bachelor of science in a master of science from texas a and m university kingsville and a ph d from university of texas medical branch majoring in chemistry biomedical science khandaan is from wakefield rhode island it has a bachelor of science from the university of richmond with a major in biochemistry and molecular biology it's from simsbury connecticut and has a bachelor of science from versity majoring in biology hillary danish junction vermont and has a bachelor of science from the university of vermont majoring in  chemistry darling is from bradford burma and has a from the university of rochester majoring in biology a master of science from drexel university with a major in biomedical science and a ph d from drexel university majoring in mechanical engineering christina dawson is from reston virginia and has about sort of arts from george mason university with a major in  e is from boston massachusetts and has a bachelor of science from massachusetts college of pharmacy and health sciences majoring in alexis dela cruz is from san diego california and has about sort of science from northern arizona university majoring in biomedical science jack dubuque is from jericho vermont and has about sort of science from the university of vermont majoring in nursing  is from singapore and has a bachelor of science in the university of utah majoring in biology is from rochester new york and has a bachelor of arts with a major in biological sciences and a post baccalaureate certificate in specialized studies from northwestern university evanston mark hammond is from massachusetts and has a bachelor of science from the university of massachusetts amherst majoring in biology ryan harnett is from north hampton new hampshire and it's a bachelor of arts from the university of colorado at boulder majoring in integrative physiology and a master of science from the university of colorado boulder majoring in applied exercise physiology olivia harrison is from cranston rhode island and has a bachelor of science from the university of rhode island majoring in biological science hussein is from jacksonville florida and from florida state college at jacksonville with a major in nursing and a bachelor of science from the university of north florida majoring in biology from vermont and has a bachelor of arts from middlebury college majoring in environmental studies and a master of arts from boston university majoring in energy and environmental analysis is from bedford massachusetts and has a bachelor of science with a major in biology and a bachelor of arts from duke university with a major in french study meredith lackey is from south kingstown rhode island she has a bachelor of science from the university of vermont majoring in neuroscience matthew is from los angeles california and has a sort of arts from george washington university majoring in political communication flora lou is from taipei taiwan and has a bachelor of arts from colorado college majoring in molecular biology and  lowery is from minneapolis minnesota and has about four of our philosophy from the university of north dakota and an m b a from ohio state university elizabeth lynch hartford connecticut and has a bachelor of arts from the university of north carolina chapel hill majoring in global studies in mclean is from aspen colorado and has a bachelor of arts from the university of colorado at boulder with a major in anthropology william tyler prince connecticut and has a bachelor of arts from middlebury college majoring in neuroscience emily is from st louis missouri and has a bachelor of science from missouri university of science and technology majoring in  west warwick rhode island and has a bachelor of science from the university of rhode island majoring in biology alan sue is from los angeles california and has a bachelor of science from university long beach majoring in biology molecular biology and physiology georges hahn is from miami florida and has a bachelor of science from university of florida with a major in biology and a master of science from versity majoring in medical science john vandenberg is from queens new york and has a bachelor of arts from the university of vermont majoring in biology this is from virgin xfer amman and as a bachelor of science from the university of vermont majoring in biology charlotte water is from napa california and has a bachelor of arts from the university of california santa cruz with a major in anthropology and a master of arts from the university of oxford with a major in archaeology michael weber is from auburn maine he's got a bachelor of science from college majoring in chemistry and environmental catherine west from windsor vermont and has a bachelor of science from university of vermont and a master of science from university ramond majoring in animal science from lawrenceville georgia and is a bachelor of science from spelman college majoring in chemistry and a master of science from johns hopkins university majoring in biotechnology seth and candace are an item from stockholm sweden and has a bachelor of science from morehouse college with a major in biology and a master of science from johns hopkins university majoring in timothy is from randolph and has a bachelor of science from wake forest university majoring in chemistry with a concentration of biochemistry is from waterbury vermont and has a bachelor of science from the university of vermont majoring in n i swear to fulfill to the best of my ability this covenant i will respect the scientific gain of those physicians and scientists and who steps i will walk and gladly share such knowledge  but those who are to follow i will remember that there is both an art and a science to medicine i will pursue the expansion of my knowledge throughout my life for the benefit of my patients i will practice medicine with conscience and dignity i respect the privacy of my patients and not judge them i will prevent disease whenever i can for prevention is preferable to cure most especially i will tread with care and matters of life and death if it be merely within my abilities to help ease suffering at the end of life may face this awesome responsibility with humility and awareness of my own frailty i shall always to act to preserve the finest traditions of my calling from a long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help graduations all of our students you get assembled and get the pictures done and so we get over the party over at the data center and i welcome you all to come come on over and visit assess their thank you