OATH CEREMONY 
 

Class of 2012
April 8, 2010
Mechanics Hall (http://www.mechanicshall.org/about/directions.html)
321 Main St.
Worcester, MA

Formal invitations to this ceremony will be sent to both you and your parents/ spouse containing more details, however please note and save this date now. 

The Oath Ceremony is a time to recognize, in a formal and ceremonial way, that medicine is a humanistic, ethical, and moral undertaking as well as a biological science. The Oath Ceremony is UMass' way of recognizing this tradition by inviting you, your parents &/or spouse, and selected faculty to this gathering, at which you will hear a speaker of your class' choosing, read your class oath, and receive UMass lapel pins which we hope you will wear on white and other coats from now until you retire from the practice of medicine. There will be a reception following the ceremony (nibblies, not dinner). 

Student will still take the Oath of Maimonides at graduation; your class oath will follow you through school and will be in your graduation program book. 

The oath ceremony is held at the end of the second year when you have been in clinical settings and have had time to reflect on which it means to be a physician, as well as on what sort of person you would like to be as a physician. It also recognizes the transition in your medical education from what has been primarily basic science training with clinical exposure, to what will be primarily clinical training with basic science applications.