White Coat
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From Physicist to Physician: Meet M1 Halina Tran
By Kyra Letsinger Following your dreams is a phrase so often repeated it can lose its impact. It seems simple: you listen to your heart and pursue the path to get there. In reality, achieving one’s dreams is not for the faint of heart. It is for those who are… Read MoreJul. 24, 2025
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Finding Purpose in a Passion for People: Meet M1 Abhi Manda
By: Kyra Letsinger As a high schooler, Abhi Manda had no plans of becoming a doctor. That is not to say he knew exactly what he wanted to do – in fact, the opposite seemed to be true. There was so much he wanted to do that… Read MoreSep. 5, 2023
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Threads old and new: HPSP students take oath at White Coat Ceremony
by Lexie Little M1 students Sean Luong and Natalie Jones commit to service as officer-physicians When Lt. Col. Will Hansen officially retired from the U.S. Army on Sept. 1, 2019, he stashed his uniform in the closet not knowing light outside would ever reach its stitching for a military reason… Read MoreSep. 10, 2021
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VUSM Alumni Reminisce About Their White Coat Ceremonies
The white coat ceremony is a particularly important memory for me even though my parents were unable to attend. It was difficult for my mother to travel at the time and my father died suddenly, two years prior from an MI. When I was in college, he bought… Read MoreJul. 24, 2017