Medscape January 20, 2025
Roni Robbins

Every year, students entering Harvard medical and dental schools write their own oaths about how they pledge to interact with each other and care for themselves, their patients, and the larger community based on submissions from their classmates.

“We pledge to ourselves to commit to integrity, humility, and wonder in both our learning and in our service of patients, to have the courage to be vulnerable and acknowledge our innate privileges, and to continuously address our implicit biases,” the Class of 2028 began their oath among their medical and dental peers last year. They wore their new white coats presented days earlier in a ceremony with family and friends.

The medical school pledge, recited at the end of a weeklong...

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