The 47th annual commencement of the School of Medicine at UMass Medical School is taking place weeks ahead of schedule, enabling 135 new physicians to enter medical practice immediately to help take on the health care system’s unprecedented COVID-19 challenge. As the first in her immediate family to graduate from medical school, Jourdaen Sanchez had been looking forward to putting on her graduation regalia and walking across the stage at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, cheered on by family and friends.Instead, Sanchez will join the University of Kansas School of Medicine class of 2020 on Saturday, May 16, in a virtual Zoom ceremony, where she will participate in a virtual hooding ceremony and recite the Hippocratic Oath with her classmates. (News Release) – For the first time in the state’s 184-year history, a medical student has earned a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree in Arkansas. Phase I is the University-wide ceremony in which all schools participate. “Typically, these events are huge family affairs because many of our graduates — about 60% to 70% — are first-time college graduates. I love giving everyone a big hug and meeting their families. If you will be attending both the Phase I and the Phase II ceremonies, we encourage you to wear comfortable shoes because you will descend the Tufts Memorial Steps which are steep, and then continue down College Avenue to the Gantcher Center.The Phase I and II ceremonies do not offer reserve seating. The school has also offered students three possibilities to meet for in-person events in the coming year, if public health guidelines allow: A social gathering in June for the 35% of students who are staying in Kansas; an event during the school’s alumni weekend in October; and an invitation to participate in next year’s hooding ceremony alongside the class of 2021. In keeping with its well-received virtual Match Day ceremony, the event will be streamed on Facebook Live, with remarks from Brashear and UC Davis Chancellor Gary May and then a ceremony during which each student will offer a few words. In-person celebrations will take place at a later date. You should allow yourself extra time to secure parking since there will be significant traffic on the Medford campus that morning. Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center – April 30As in the past, medical students and their Rush University peers could flip through a beautiful booklet commemorating graduation day — but this year they did so online. “Nothing can replicate that moment when you are together with peers and loved ones under one roof, but our students understood that this is a difficult time.” Indeed, as Dino Rumoro, DO, MPH, acting dean of the medical college, wrote in his graduation remarks, “How you respond to this new disease will define your generation.”University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine – May 9The leaders of South Dakota’s only medical school delivered their commencement addresses on Saturday, May 9, from a makeshift broadcast studio in a wide hallway, while 67 graduates joined from home on Zoom and families watched through a . Administrators even sent out regalia for at-home hooding ceremonies, explains Associate Dean for Student Affairs Alison Holmes, MD, MPH. We want to make this special for them and their families and are excited for them to join medicine at this unprecedented time.” At the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, students wanted their virtual graduation to remain highly traditional. “I love graduation. “This is their day, and we need to celebrate their success. A University shuttle will be making regular trips from the Davis Square - Red Line MBTA station to the main campus and the Gantcher Center (at the Eliot-Pearson turn-around). She, on the other hand, confesses to being a little heartbroken.

The Commencement Ceremony is divided into two phases. Courses, programmes and training. “We want to make sure they understand that these unprecedented times are not the end of times,” says Dexter Samuels, PhD, senior vice president for student affairs. Students will then recite the entire oath together. As a final farewell to the label, the ‘Med School: Graduation’ compilation celebrates the life of Hospital Records’ once sister label, as well as the musicians and culture that defined it, with 23 brand new tracks from label stalwarts such as Bop, Keeno, Etherwood and Whiney as well as the new blood that was always so important to the label’s experimental output.