2023 White Coats set to exceed 15000 Ross University Graduates worldwide

The spring 2023 class of students recently enrolling into Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM), will take the School’s international alumni to well over 15000 medical practitioners worldwide, when they graduate in four years’ time. 

The students were officially welcomed to class during their White Coat Ceremony held last month at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. This latest class hails from countries across the world including Jamaica, Dominica and Haiti in the Caribbean, and from further afield, Nepal, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ireland, Iraq, South Korea, Nigeria and Vietnam, with the majority of students coming from the US and Canada. 

Reciting the Declaration of Geneva.

After donning their white coats and reciting the Declaration of Geneva, the medical students received words of inspiration from RUSM alumnus, Dr. Gregory Gilmour. Currently an attending physician and a co-medical director of Mary Free Bed at Sparrow Hospital, a nationally recognized inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, Gilmour advised the students to rely for guidance on those who had gone before them, while choosing their own adventures in medicine.

“Nobody does this on their own when you need help get it. I didn’t tell you this earlier but when I stood up after my very first day of lectures here, I left the classroom and walked straight to the tutoring center on Campus. I swallowed my pride that day and I never regretted it. If you find yourself in a similar situation now, you know what to do. Beyond the basic sciences, you’ll also have access to thousands of alumni like me through the ambassador program; and while I won’t be able to follow all of you through this program I am looking forward to hearing individual stories from many of you and someday calling all of you my colleagues.” (PR)