2023-08-03 04:27:00
The Orientation and White Coats ceremony was held at the facilities of the UAG International Campus
The Autonomous University of Guadalajara (UAG), through the event “Orientation Day, 2023-02”, welcomed a new generation of students from the United States and Puerto Rico, who join the International Medicine Program (PIM).During the welcome event, the Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences, Dr. Alfonso Petersen Farah, in his message told the students that this day might define the rest of their lives and congratulated them for choosing a noble profession such as Medicine. , in addition to a great university to train as UAG Doctors.“You are regarding to start your path in one of the most demanding careers, Medicine, and as if that were not enough in another country, today we are proud and happy to have you here at our university with our staff of collaborators ready to help you become wonderful doctors,” he added.Then, Dr. Kashif Ahmad, Dean of the School of Medicine, urged the students not to give up during the entire process of their academic training, because like everything, there will be difficult moments like being so far from home, but other very good ones. moments that will give a lot of satisfaction and meaning throughout their lives.
White coatsAfter the welcome and knowing everything that the UAG and the city of Guadalajara offer them, the new students received their first white coat, which symbolizes their commitment to the medical profession and their beginning as doctors in training.Since its origins, the UAG International Medicine Program has graduated more than 18,000 foreign doctors, mainly from the United States and Puerto Rico, who carry out their work with ethics and professionalism.As a special guest at the imposition of gowns was Dr. María de los Ángeles Valentín Mari, a graduate of the Surgeon career of the 1998 generation, who currently stands out as an internist at the “Mario Canales” Diagnostic and Treatment Center, in Jayuya, Puerto Rico.The ceremony was held in the courtyard of the UAG International Campus, where they took the traditional Hippocratic Oath, another symbol of medical work, in which the students promised to carry out their profession ethically.At the end, a generation photo was taken and the parents and other relatives and friends lived with the young people, all as part of the welcome program offered by the PIM.
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