An honors breakfast and ceremony are planned for medical students who are receiving awards and honors cords on Wednesday, April 24. Breakfast will begin at 9 a.m. in the Terrace Room of the USA Student Center followed by an awards ceremony at 10 a.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.
The Academic Hooding Ceremony for all graduates of the Whiddon College of Medicine will be held at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 3, at the USA Mitchell Center. Seventy-four 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. The ceremony will be streamed live on the Mitchell Center's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_Vqk7qXDA.USA's Spring Commencement Ceremony will celebrate graduates and confer degrees from the Whiddon College of Medicine and other colleges at the university. Commencement is set for 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 4, at the Mitchell Center. The Class of 2024 will be the 49th class to receive medical degrees from the Whiddon College of Medicine. The ceremony will be streamed live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOM9m2gguC0.
For more information on graduation, visit the Registrar’s Commencement page.