It has been called “the bible of psychiatry,” the guidebook used by mental health professionals throughout the United States to diagnose mental illness.
Twenty years after the first White Coat Ceremony took place at P&S, graduates involved in that historical ceremony discuss the impact of the rite on their careers.
As a medical student arriving at P&S in August of 1993, Rebecca Tennant’98 took part in the first-ever White Coat Ceremony along with 149 other students in the incoming class.