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Dr. Clarence H. Braddock to Deliver Keynote Address to the Class of 2015 at Pritzker's Annual White Coat Ceremony
Clarence H. Braddock III, MD, MPH
Sunday, August 7, 2011
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5841 S. Maryland Avenue
1156 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
August 1, 2011 —On Sunday, August 7 at 4:00 p.m., the Pritzker School of Medicine community will welcome its newest members - the Class of 2015 - during the annual White Coat Ceremony. Dr. Clarence H. Braddock, Director of the Center of Medical Education and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Stanford University School of Medicine, will deliver the keynote address for the White Coat Ceremony.
The annual ceremony began at Pritzker in 1990 as a way to mark the formal induction of first year medical students’ entry into the medical profession. Since that time, the White Coat Ceremony has spread across the country and is now practiced at nearly every medical school in the United States. The ceremony honors students’ lifetime commitment to blending knowledge, excellence, and compassion as physicians. During the ceremony, students recite the Hippocratic Oath before their family, friends, and new colleagues.
Prior to moving to Stanford, Dr. Braddock was an Associate
Professor in the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he was also
Director of the Bioethics Education Project, an initiative to expand and
integrate more ethics education into the curriculum. In this capacity he
developed a web-based ethics curriculum, interactive on-line case discussion
tools, and several new clerkship-based ethics case discussion experiences.
Several of these innovations have been published in journals such as Academic
Medicine and presented at national meetings.
In addition to work in the
area of medical ethics education, Dr. Braddock has research interests in
physician-patient communication and informed decision making, with research
funded by the Bayer Institute for Healthcare Communication, the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, and National Institute on Aging. He developed an assessment
scale of the quality of informed decision making in clinical practice, using it
to show that rarely involve patients in routine yet important clinical
decisions. Results of this widely cited work have been published in JAMA,
Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Clinical Ethics, and the
American Journal of Medicine, as well as a book chapters on Informed Consent.
Dr. Braddock is recognized as a national expert on informed decision making and
doctor-patient communication, having given numerous invited lectures on informed
decision making, as well as workshops at national meetings, and is frequently
interviewed for the print, radio, and television media.
We look forward to welcoming the Class of 2015 and their families, as well as Dr. Braddock, to the Pritzker School of Medicine!
