On Friday, Aug. 23, at USC’s Health Sciences Campus, 161 Trojan occupational therapy graduate students donned white coats for the first time and pledged an oath to uphold professional values during the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy’s 2019 White Coat Ceremony.

The keynote address was delivered by Michael Hochman, MD, MPH, associate professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and director of the USC Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation.

— Mike McNulty

Students pledge an oath to uphold professional values during the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy’s 2019 White Coat Ceremony. (Photo/GradImages)