NUS Medicine Class of 2021
It was a defining moment for the 300 medical freshmen of the Class of 2021 as they were officially welcomed to the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the White Coat Ceremony on 10 August. The Ceremony was introduced by the School in 2008 and is an annual highlight on the academic calendar.
Faculty members helped the students to don their white coats – traditional symbols of the physician – as the audience of proud and happy parents and family members looked on. Earlier, the audience heard from NUS Medicine Dean, Associate Professor Yeoh Khay Guan as well as the Guest of Honour, NUH Chair of the Medical Board, Associate Professor Aymeric Lim, on the time-honoured values and traditions of the medical profession – and which the freshmen are also now bound to uphold as doctors-to-be.
The ceremony ended with the recital of the Medical Students’ Pledge, led by the President of the NUS Medical Society and Phase 5 student, Mr Wong Wen Kai.
