IOWA CITY — McKenzie Temperly of Winslow was one of more than 150 students new to the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine who was ceremoniously “cloaked” at the College’s annual Arnold P. Gold Foundation White Coat Ceremony staged earlier this month in Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium. The 2022 event was the 28th in the history of College.

The White Coat Ceremony is a celebrated experience as students enter medical school. In the presence of family, guests, and faculty members, students are welcomed into the medical community by leaders of the medical center and ceremonially “cloaked” with their white coat. Then, dressed in white, they stand to take the ancient Oath of Hippocrates, traditionally sworn at graduation.

By establishing this meaningful ritual at the beginning of medical school, we hope students will become aware of their responsibilities from the first day of training. The ceremony is intended to impress upon them the primacy of the doctor-patient relationship. It encourages them to enter into a psychological contract in which they accept the obligations inherent in the practice of medicine: to be excellent in science, to be compassionate, and to lead lives of “uprightness and honor.” It is designed to clarify for students that a physician’s responsibility is to take care of patients and also to care for patients. The message transmitted is that doctors should “care” as well as “cure.”

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

MEQUON — Concordia University had released it’s 2022 Spring Honors List.

Brodhead: Nickole Becker, Senior, Psychology

Juda: Emily Makos, Junior, Rehab-Sci-Regular.

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY

WACO, TX. — Baylor University has announced their Honor List and 2022 Spring Graduation.

Benton: Samuel Steven Day, Bachelor of Music, Applied Music, Cum Laude, School of Music.

LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY 

APPLETON —The university has released the 2022 Dean’s List. 

Evansville- Ethan Swanson