UTEP School of Pharmacy welcomes 51 students during white coat ceremony

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) School of Pharmacy hosted a White Coat Ceremony on Saturday evening for the university's Doctor of Pharmacy Class 2030.

During the ceremony, family and friends joined University administrators and faculty as students received their first white coat. According to UTEP, the white coat symbolizes professionalism, clinical care, and service, as well as the trust and responsibility students will carry in caring for patients.

Students were called up to the stage one by one, and two faculty members presented the white coats. After that, the class read the Oath of a Pharmacist, where they pledge to be ethical, to look out for patients, and overall be a good pharmacist.

Pharmacy student Nya Sanderson said that anyone who wants to get back to their community and has an interest in science and medicine should study Pharmacy.