White Coat Ceremony at Università Cattolica: Medicine and Surgery students take their first steps on the ward

Professor Martin Bergö, Vice Rector and member of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, will deliver the Keynote Address at the White Coat ceremony for the Integrated Degree Programme in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of Università Cattolica. The ceremony will be held on Monday, 12 October, at 5.30 pm, in the Auditorium of the University’s Rome campus (L. go Francesco Vito, 1).

The ceremony – which in Italy represents a rite of passage between the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth year of the programme when, through the donning of their white coats, future doctors enter the clinical phase of their studies – will be opened by greetings from Professor Alessandro Sgambato, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at Università Cattolica, Dr Daniele Piacentini, Director General of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, and Father Alessandro Mantini, Lecturer in Theology and Pastoral Assistant at the Rome campus, and introduced by Professor Giovanni Gambassi, President of the Degree Programme in Medicine and Surgery.

At 5.50 pm, the Coating ceremony will take place, followed by the Keynote Address by Professor Martin Bergö, Vice-President and member of the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden).

At 6.55 pm, Dr Luca Capriati, Alumnus of Class 2024, will solemnly guide the Hippocratic Oath.

The ceremony can be followed via live streaming by connecting to the Rome Campus homepage: https://roma.unicatt.it/.