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White Coat Ceremony marks beginning of healthcare careers for new RCSI students

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On Tuesday, 8 September, the Annual White Coat and Undergraduate Prize-Giving Ceremony was held in the in the Exam Hall of RCSI.

The White Coat Ceremony is a welcome event for new undergraduate students which symbolises the professional nature of the healthcare careers on which they are about to embark. 

The evening also comprised of an awards ceremony for students throughout the undergraduate programmes from Foundation Year through to Senior Cycle who achieved excellence to date. A series of short presentations by individual students were delivered as part of the event. The ceremony was live streamed and attracted an audience from all over the world where families and friends who were unable to attend the event tuned in to watch this RCSI tradition.