<p>hubbellsdad, it’s number one on her list right now. Lot’s of positives and I can ride my bike to see her, too. Nice to here from you and glad to here the boy is still getting it done.</p>
<p>hubbell,
Although it is way too early for my D. to think about it (just finished her first year). she has mentined Vandy as one of possibilities. That would be such a drastic change in her sticking around her hometown attitude. That could change many times over, but it is nice to hear positives about Vandy. Any warnings? But again, D. is so far from it all and no idea about specialty either, although list of NOs is growing.</p>
<p>My NO list is growing too, Miami. Anything with limited Pt contact is out. Anything that is in the stratosphere of difficulty is probably out (for once in my life I’d like not to have to be an insane competitor, thanks very much). I’m tentatively leaning toward peds, and probably thinking specialist rather than generalist. </p>
<p>From the looks of it, I should check into Vandy–LOL.</p>
<p>A friend of mine is currently in the peds residency at Vandy and loves it. Vanderbilt is pretty high on my list too (but not for peds haha). hubbellsdad, what program is your son in?</p>
<p>kristin,
My D. is the same “Anything with limited Pt contact is out.” - she loves to work with people. However, she has had previous experience with peds (just volunteering) and was turned off big time. This was the first NO. She does not mind to take care of kids, changing infants, holding them, calm them down, anything, but watching docs dealing with parents was a torture. Maybe you can check into it, unless you already have this experience and you do not view it as negative aspect. Anyway, if peds were in picture, D. should have never applied out of her bs/md, as her original Med. School is consistently #3 in peds.
Nice to hear more positive comments about Vandy. Thanks, will keep in mind. That woudl be such a drastic change for us, not to have any kids close as our S. has been living in NYC. Oh, well, it is still way too far to think about it.</p>
<p>Can anyone give me some feel for the percentage of parents who attend the white coat ceremony? I’ve done a little bit of searching on here, but I’m mainly seeing tips on attire :-). D’s ceremony is in late September; we live 1400 miles away. Due to some other commitments, it would have to be a quick trip, but I would love to go!</p>
<p>I would say most, perhaps even all, of D1’s med school class had family attending the White Coat.
I went to hers and it was quite inspiring.</p>
<p>My wife went and enjoyed herself. I stayed home with the animals. The percentage of family attending was very high. Certainly 80% or better from what she reported.</p>
<p>There seemed to be family representation for almost everyone at my daughter’s ceremony. Some of D’s classmates are well into their adult lives with spouses and children so I don’t know if their parents were there. Coming to NYC for a few days is an expensive trip so I would certainly understand if some parents could not make it.</p>
<p>Slightly off-topic - H and I have skipped the events geared to parents that are scheduled each year. That being said, we are part-time New Yorkers and have other opportunities to see DD.</p>
<p>Off-topic but rather sweet - My niece graduated from NYU’s med school recently and at her ceremony graduates with children had them come up to join them as they walked across the stage to receive their diplomas. One young mother held the hand of her pre-schooler and carried her baby. Two babies during medical school - Whoa!</p>
<p>D’s white coat ceremony was very very fancy at very fancy place with very fancy food. It was unbelivably more impressive than her UG graduation. We were happy that we both attended. but we are less than 2 hrs from her school. I am talking about “short” white coat ceremony at the beginning of first year. I do not know anything about “long” white coat ceremony at the end. Te venue looked crowded, with that many from California which is very far away, it was impressive to see that many.</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedback on the white coat ceremony–I’ve purchased my ticket!</p>
<p>Do I have this right? Depending on the individual med school, white coat ceremonies are at different times in the school calendar? Some at the very beginning–during orientation, even–some in the middle and some nearer the end?</p>
<p>Yup. You got it.</p>
<p>I believe we have 2, I might be wrong. The first one was at the beginning of first year, they got the short coats. I believe, that they will get their long coats at the end.</p>