Lee Bidwell Jacob, Robinson Mark W, De Grandville Catherine, Santana Esmeralda, Simpson Deborah
Designated Institutional Official, Graduate Medical Education Programs, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2016 Mar 14;3. doi: 10.4137/JMECD.S30308. eCollection 2016 Jan-Dec.
White coat ceremonies (WCCs) in medical school mark the transition of students to medicine, beginning their professional identity formation as a physician. However, a literature/web search revealed a paucity of residency-focused WCCs.
A 90-minute Family Medicine Residency (FM) WCC was designed to support residents' professional identity formation as a specialty physician. Through faculty narratives and brief histories of the white coat and the specialty, the WCC concludes with new residents donning their specialty embroidered white coats. A brief e-survey was sent to attendees, and WCC leaders were debriefed to determine the value and key elements of WCC.
Seventy-nine percent of survey respondents (34/43) agreed that the WCC is an important transition event for residents' identity while reaffirming FM values for faculty/staff. WCC leaders identified critical steps for initiating a WCC.
A resident WCC formally marks the transition to specialty physician identity.
Ceremony structure will evolve over time.
医学院的白袍仪式标志着学生向医学领域的转变，开启了他们作为医生的职业身份形成过程。然而，文献检索和网络搜索显示，以住院医师阶段为重点的白袍仪式较少。
设计了一场90分钟的家庭医学住院医师白袍仪式，以支持住院医师作为专科医生的职业身份形成。通过教员讲述以及白袍和该专科的简短历史，仪式在新住院医师穿上绣有专科标志的白袍后结束。向与会者发送了一份简短的电子调查问卷，并对白袍仪式的负责人进行了汇报，以确定白袍仪式的价值和关键要素。
79%的调查受访者（34/43）认为，白袍仪式对住院医师的身份来说是一个重要的过渡事件，同时也向教职员工/工作人员重申了家庭医学的价值观。白袍仪式负责人确定了启动白袍仪式的关键步骤。
住院医师白袍仪式正式标志着向专科医生身份的转变。
仪式结构将随着时间的推移而演变。
