This past week at Frederick Douglass High School, the Biomedical Science program held a “White Coat Ceremony” for their Junior class. This is a ceremony that takes place in the auditorium, celebrating the Juniors accomplishments and leading them into their senior year. Johanna Rosevear, the head of the program performs a speech. While David Salyers, the co-leader of the program, has the honor of giving each student their coat. This ceremony allows students to celebrate their dedication throughout this challenging program, which will ensure a beneficial and educational background in the medical field later on in life. Let’s dive deeper into the program, and the importance of making it through three years of biomed!
Biomed is a challenging 4 year course for students in highschool. You have to achieve a C or higher in the class to continue being in the program. Once you make it toe3 junior year you gain a white coat to show you have accomplished making it through 3 hard years while managing other classes and outside factors as well. Students in this course require responsibility, time management, and self accountability and these coats show appreciation for these qualities.
We spoke to a current junior, Lainey Barrow. She claims that her freshman year was the easiest, then junior year, and sophomore year was the hardest. She believes that sophomore year is the hardest because “it has hard content with hard assignments.” During the ceremony, Barrow felt proud due to her hard work paying off. She exclaims that she’s now prepared going into her senior year because of all the techniques she has learned in the previous 3 years of biomed. We are super proud of our biomed students!