Professional dress is required. Please advise your guests against wearing jeans, tennis shoes, or other casual attire.

Access to the Landau webstore and instructions for ordering is available through your personal microsite on the checklist. There is no cost for the white coat. Returning students will not need to place an order. 

Yes, we encourage you to bring guests. Please make sure that you direct guests to the White Coat website for all info related to the ceremony. Please let your guests know that the processional will begin promptly at the advertised time. Guests arriving during the processional may be asked to wait in the lobby until students and faculty have been seated.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, located in downtown Memphis, is the venue for the event. The ceremony is relatively short and should only take around one hour.

There is no limit to the number of guests you may invite. This is a free event and tickets are NOT required.

Students will be lined up in alphabetical order according to your last name.

No personal belongings will be allowed. All personal items must be left with family, friends, or in your car.

Students will assemble in a designated area where your white coats will be passed out. You will line up in alphabetical order and the group will process around to the front entrance of the auditorium. Then, the group will march into the auditorium, into assigned rows and remain standing until instructed to be seated.

• Faculty and Student Processional
• Welcome and Introductions
• Opening Remarks
• Keynote Speaker
• Presentation of the White Coats
• Administration of the Oath of Hippocrates
• Closing Remarks
• Faculty and Student Recessional

When it is time to be coated, you will be led by student marshals to line up on the steps to the right of the stage. Once in line, you will wait for your name to be called. You will come onto the stage, with your white coat laid over your left arm. You will present your coat to faculty member who will open the coat and assist you in putting it on. After being coated, you will stop and pose for a photo. A staff photographer will be in the auditorium in front of this area. Following the photograph, you will proceed across the stage to the main podium, and pose for a formal photograph, then return to your same seat for the remainder of the ceremony.

Programs and seating will be available for your guests during the time before the ceremony while you are lining up. Any seat that is not marked reserved is available.

Yes. Guests of all ages are encouraged to attend.

Professional attire is recommended.

Yes, each student will be called by name to the stage to don his or her White Coat.

Yes, you may take photographs and video. However, for traffic flow, safety purposes, and to allow the professional photographer to take photos of all students unimpeded, the area in front of the stage must stay clear. Please also show courtesy to other guests around you so that you do not block their views.

Professional photographers will be taking photos of each student as they are coated and cross the stage for a formal photograph next to the College of Medicine banner, as well as a class photo right after the ceremony and candid shots before and after the ceremony. These photographs will be available for download a few days after the ceremony at no cost. All students will receive an email as to how to access these photographs for themselves and their families. While personal photography is permitted, we ask that guests be courteous of those around them and for safety purposes, keep all aisles and walkways clear. Guests are NOT permitted on stage or in front of the seating area.

Yes, there will be a photo opportunity area complete with College of Medicine backdrop in the lobby of the Cannon Center.