An academic hooding ceremony will be held for all Whiddon College of Medicine graduates at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 4, at the Mitchell Center on the USA campus.
At the hooding ceremony, 74 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. Four 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 Friday, May 5, at the Mitchell Center. This year’s medical school class will become the 48th 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 3,055.
