@article{oai:dmu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002186,
 author = {Hashimoto, Michiyo and Tsuchiya, Tomohiro and Nishiyama, Midori},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {Dokkyo Journal of Medical Sciences},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {The first white coat ceremony took place at a Japanese medical school in 2001 and was designed to reaffirm the responsibilities of medical students becoming student doctors（SDs）prior to their clinical clerkships. Dokkyo Medical University has been holding an SD ceremony, rather than a white coat ceremony, since March of 2014. White coats adorned with the school emblem and students’ names were distributed to students after the SD ceremony for the first time in 2018. Using an anonymous questionnaire, this study examined changes in the students’ moods before and after the SD ceremony as well as their impressions of the white coat.
Of 115 responses, 106 with valid data were analyzed. The mean age was 23.44 years. The results indicated that students felt more cheerful, nervous, motivated, hopeful, steadfast, active, and restless after the ceremony than before, with 79.2％ of the students reporting a favorable opinion of the white coat adorned with the school’s emblem. Additionally, the top three meanings associated with the white coat were cleanliness, uniform, and propriety.
This study revealed the impact of the SD ceremony and the meanings of the white coat among medical students. Both the SD ceremony and white coat ceremony are worthy of future examination.},
 pages = {39--43},
 title = {Impact of the Student Doctor Ceremony and Receiving a White Coat Before Clinical Clerkship Among Medical Students},
 volume = {46},
 year = {2019}
}