{"id":261688,"date":"2026-08-08T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261688\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:48:22","slug":"geisinger-medical-students-were-honored-tonight-in-white-coat-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261688\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisinger Medical students were honored tonight in white coat ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Students at the Geisinger School of Medicine received their white coats this evening in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The white coat ceremony is often considered a rite of passage for students who are just about to start medical school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re so proud of these students and so excited to welcome them to Geisinger College of Health Science. This is their first week; we&#8217;re proud to don the white coat on them, the uniform of doctoring, and we&#8217;re really excited to launch them into a medical education they can be proud of,&#8221; said Julie Byerley, president of Geisinger College of Health Science.<\/p>\n<p>126 new medical students were recognized at tonight&#8217;s ceremony in scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Students at the Geisinger School of Medicine received their white coats this evening in Lackawanna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-261688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}