An honors breakfast and ceremony are planned for 39 medical students who are receiving awards and honors cords on Wednesday, April 27. A breakfast sponsored by the United States Navy will begin at 9 a.m. in the Terrace Room of the USA Student Activities Center with an awards ceremony following at 10 a.m. in the Student Ballroom.
An Academic Hooding Ceremony will be held for all USA College of Medicine graduates at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 5, at the Mitchell Center on the USA campus.
At the hooding ceremony, 76 graduating medical students will take the Hippocratic Oath and be hooded by a person or persons of their choosing. Those with a military affiliation will take the military oath of office and receive their new rank. Two graduating doctoral students in the Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program will be awarded doctoral hoods by their major professors.
Graduates will receive their degrees at USA’s Spring Commencement set for 2 p.m. on May 6 at the Mitchell Center. This year’s medical school class will become the 47th class to receive medical degrees from the USA College of Medicine, bringing the total number of physicians to graduate since the medical school’s opening to 2,981.
Attendees will not be subject to masking or social distancing requirements as long as COVID case numbers remain below critical levels.
