The OHSU School of Medicine M.D. Class of 2024 celebrates its belated White Coat Ceremony at the Robertson Life Sciences Building Feb. 11, 2022. (OHSU/Ben Schneider)

These white envelopes hold the next career steps for medical students at Oregon Health & Science University. OHSU and other medical schools throughout the United States participate in Match Day. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Rebecca Cantone, M.D., helps Hana Abdul-Rahman put on her white coat at the OHSU School of Medicine White Coat Ceremony on Friday, August 11, 2023. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

David Jacoby, M.D., the Dean of the School of Medicine, professor of medicine, physiology and pharmacology, and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at OHSU, congratulates new medical students after they don their white coats at the OHSU School of Medicine White Coat 2027 ceremony. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Oregon Health & Science University’s newest medical students will end their first week at the medical school with a time-honored ceremony that has them symbolically slip on their white coats for the first time. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

OHSU School of Medicine Class of 2027 holds their white coats. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Oregon Health & Science University’s newest medical students wait patiently at a ceremony that has them symbolically slip on their white coats for the first time. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)