The MD program class of 2025 gathered at The Met in Philadelphia on Friday, August 6, to officially begin their medical school journey with the White Coat Ceremony, a symbolic commitment to the values and duties of the medical profession. In the nationally recognized ceremony, incoming medical students don their white coats, a symbol of clinical care and compassionate service and recite the Physician's Pledge, the contemporary successor to the 2,500-year-old Hippocratic Oath.