Every August, OUWB hosts Orientation Week to welcome a new class of medical students to campus. During this first week of classes, students also have the opportunity to engage in co-curricular events and activities that engage them with the larger OUWB community of students, faculty and staff. The week culminates with the White Coat Ceremony, where they receive their stethoscopes and white coats, and recite the Oath of Geneva to mark the formal start of their medical education.

OUWB medical students participate in the traditional White Coat Ceremony, during which they receive their first physician’s lab coat. This celebration marks the beginning of their medical education. During the ceremony, students recite the Declaration of Geneva, which is the pledge that medical professionals take to signify their responsibility to the field of medicine. Find the Class of 2025 profile here.

Commencement is the grand ceremony during which OUWB students receive their M.D. degrees and are hooded by their PRISM mentors (and in some cases, family members). The Class of 2022 commencement occurred on Friday, May 13, 2022 with an in-person ceremony inside of the O'rena on Oakland University's campus. Visit the commencement website page for details.