PHILADELPHIA — On Friday, August 10, 2012, 163 first-year students at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will begin their medical careers when they receive their short white coats and start their journey into learning the art and science of healing. However, for the first time in school history, in a nod to the way in which mobile technology is changing both education and the practice of medicine, Penn Medicine will also equip these budding doctors with an Apple iPad 3. The new program represents the latest step in a 15 year technology investment by the School to bring medical curriculum into the digital age, and enables students to have access to a multipurpose learning tool that they will use throughout medical school, in the hospital, with patients, and beyond.
iPad technology adds a new dimension to medical education as the students start their journey with the time honored tradition of the White Coat Ceremony. The devices will replace 20,000 sheets (40 reams) of black-and-white printed class notes per student, serving as both an e-reader and a delivery system for animated, full-color images of the human body, with the capability for real-time updates to the course curriculum.
At the conclusion of the annual White Coat Ceremony, equipped with their short white coats, stethoscopes, and iPads, old and new symbols of medicine, the entire class will recite the Hippocratic Oath, pledging to treat the ill to the best of their abilities, preserve each patient's privacy, and to teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation.
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Zellerbach Theatre
Annenberg Center
University of Pennsylvania
3680 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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August 10, 2012 |
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Panel participants will include:
- 3:05 p.m. - J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and dean of the Perelman School of Medicine, presents welcoming remarks.
- 3:15 PM - Keynote address, Overcoming Paralysis, presented by Cindy W. Christian, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 3:40 p.m. - White coats presented by Gail Morrison, MD, senior vice dean for Education and director of the Office of Academic Programs, and Stanley Goldfarb, MD, associate dean for Curriculum
- 4:40 p.m. - Incoming class recites Hippocratic Oath
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