Marlborough Resident Gets His White Coat, Starts Medical School

Christopher Stecyk of Marlborough received his white coat at the White Coat Ceremony at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) in Harrogate, Tennessee, on September 26, according to an announcement from readMedia.

Stecyk is a first-year osteopathic medical student at LMU-DCOM. Prior to enrolling at LMU-DCOM, Stecyk attended The University of Vermont.

The White Coat Ceremony is a special ceremony designed to mark a student’s entrance into medical school. The first White Coat Ceremony was held in 1993 at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and is now a standard ritual in institutions of both allopathic and osteopathic medical education across the country. During the Ceremony, each medical student is presented and “robed” with his or her short white laboratory coat, formalizing and welcoming the student’s entrance into the study of medicine.