{"id":93670,"date":"2025-07-29T03:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=93670"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:45:11","slug":"white-coat-ceremony-for-incoming-medical-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_29_2025\/white-coat-ceremony-for-incoming-medical-students","title":{"rendered":"White Coat Ceremony for Incoming Medical Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Bukirwa receives her white coat during The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences&#8217; annual white coat ceremony for incoming medical students on Friday, July 25. The event serves to celebrates the students\u2019 entry to medical school and symbolize the privileges and responsibilities they have as physicians-in-training.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93672\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/07252025-7352a.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Bukirwa receives her white coat during The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences' annual white coat ceremony for incoming medical students on Friday, July 25.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/07252025-7352a.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/07252025-7352a-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s incoming class of 175 students was selected from more than 6,500 applicants from across the country. Students come from 25 different states, though 63% are Ohio residents and 22% are from northwest Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93671\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/07252025-7439.jpg\" alt=\"Photo taken during The University of Toledo's College of Medicine and Life Sciences' annual white coat ceremony for incoming medical students on Friday, July 25.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/07252025-7439.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/07252025-7439-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_29_2025\/white-coat-ceremony-for-incoming-medical-students\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/07252025-7352a-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Friday&#8217;s event served to celebrate the students\u2019 entry to medical school and symbolize the privileges and responsibilities they have as physicians-in-training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":849,"featured_media":93672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93673,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93670\/revisions\/93673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}