After two years of virtual graduations in 2020 and 2021, the UNC School of Medicine’s Class of 2022 joyfully celebrated graduation with its annual Hooding Ceremony on Saturday, May 7, at Memorial Hall.
After two years of virtual graduations in 2020 and 2021, the UNC School of Medicine’s Class of 2022 joyfully celebrated graduation with its annual Hooding Ceremony on Saturday, May 7, at Memorial Hall.
The annual hooding ceremony marks the formal conclusion of these students’ experience at the UNC School of Medicine. On March 18, the students celebrated Match Day, where they learned where they will spend the next several years completing their residency training. It was a wonderful conclusion to a medical school education earned under what can only be described as “unique”, with the specter of COVID-19 affecting many aspects of the students’ learning. But the Class of 2022 dug in, exceeded expectations, helped their communities, and fully supported one another and their patients, not allowing the pandemic to get in the way of their education, or their care for their patients.
A. Wesley Burks, M.D., Dean of the UNC School of Medicine, and Cristen Page, M.D., Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, offered words of welcome and congratulations. The Class of 2022 unanimously selected Winston Yunqing Li, M.D., Assistant Professor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, as the commencement speaker.
Students were “hooded” by faculty members onstage and, by longstanding tradition, the event closed with a recitation of the Oath of Hippocrates.
A few facts about the Class of 2022:
- 37 students received dual degrees: 20 M.D./M.P.H.; 9 M.D./Ph.D.; 4 M.D./M.B.A.; 1M.D./Master of Theological Studies; 1 M.D./Master of Science in Narrative Medicine; and 1 M.D./Doctor of Jurisprudence
- 27 students were recognized as members of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
- 4 students were commissioned as military officers