2025 White Coat Ceremony

We celebrate our incoming class of medical students as they close out their Orientation Week with a special ceremony to receive their white coats.

The White Coat Ceremony is a rite of passage for medical students, originally created by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in 1993 as a way to highlight the importance of humanism in patient care. In 1994, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School became one of the first medical schools to adopt the White Coat Ceremony as part of its students' introduction to their medical education journey.

About the Event

This year's event will be hosted at the State Theatre New Jersey, located in the downtown theater district in New Brunswick. Information about the theatre's bag policy and other frequently asked questions can be found here. Directions and parking information can be found on the State Theatre's site here, as well as the New Brunswick Parking Authority's information pages.

Doors will open at 2 p.m. for general admission seating and at 1:45 p.m. for special needs seating. The program will begin promptly at 3 p.m.

Follow It Live Online!

Guests who are unable to attend in person can get a front-row ticket to the action by viewing it live online at the time of the event. This year's White Coat Ceremony will be streamed live at go.rutgers.edu/RWJMSWhiteCoat2025.