{"id":22211,"date":"2015-07-23T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T14:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=22211"},"modified":"2015-07-28T12:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:53:17","slug":"boston-universitys-pa-students-mark-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/07\/23\/boston-universitys-pa-students-mark-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston University\u2019s PA Students Mark Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On July 21, BUSM welcomed the Class of 2017 Physician’s Assistants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Filled with hope and motivation to help others, 33 new students entering the Physician\u2019s Assistant (PA) Class of 2017 donned their white coats for the first time today as part of the program\u2019s second annual \u201cWhite Coat Ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surrounded by family and friends, the students\u2014who hailed from all parts of the country\u2014were welcomed into the profession by BU Medical Campus Provost and BUSM Dean Karen Antman, MD, Associate Provost for the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences Linda Hyman, PhD, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Doug Hughes, MD.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe symbolism of the white coat very much embodies our responsibility to care, to learn, to teach, to discover and ultimately to create a healthcare system that fully cares for our population in a way that we would want to be cared for as individuals,\u201d said David Coleman, MD Wade Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Physician-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center<\/p>\n

PA Program Director Mary Warner, PA-C, introduced the keynote speaker, Captain Robin N. Hunter Buskey, DHSc, CDE, CCHP, PA-C, as her personal role model when she was a PA student.<\/p>\n

With more than 30 years of clinical experience, Hunter Buskey is a Senior Physician Assistant with the US Public Health Service assigned to the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook ahead with optimism and know that you have chosen a challenging profession of which you can be proud,\u201d she said. \u201cLeave your legacy of excellence, integrity, social justice and service.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White Coat Ceremony is part of a time-honored tradition that marks the students\u2019 entry into the medical profession. While the PA students matriculated in April of this year, they participate in the ceremony after they have learned the history and physical exam and before they begin weekly practice in the clinical setting.<\/p>\n

After donning their coats and reciting the Physician\u2019s Assistant Professional Oath, the students listened to remarks from Brendan Flaherty, a patient who has received several years of care from a PA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for what you do,\u201d said Flaherty. \u201cYou really help us. You really care, and you go to bat for us each day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filled with hope and motivation to help others, 33 new students entering the Physician\u2019s Assistant (PA) Class of 2017 donned their white coats for the first time today as part of the program\u2019s second annual \u201cWhite Coat Ceremony.\u201d Surrounded by family and friends, the students\u2014who hailed from all parts of the country\u2014were welcomed into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22211"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22502,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions\/22502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}