Sarah E. Buckingham of Scarborough recently participated in the White Coat Ceremony at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Penn. The ceremony, designed as part of the opening exercises for matriculating medical students, symbolizes the clinical beginning of the student’s medical education. The ceremony concluded with every student donning the white coat and reciting the Hippocratic Oath, emphasizing the responsibilities of the medical profession. Buckingham, a 2002 graduate of Scarborough High School, graduated from Dartmouth College in June 2006. She was one of 250 selected for admittance to the medical school out of a pool of more than 10,000 applicants. She is the daughter of Dianne and Thomas Buckingham, 36 Longmeadow Road.

Sarah Buckingham recently received her white coat and took the Hippocratic Oath at the Annual White Coat Ceremony at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. She is a first-year student at the medical school which is part of Thomas Jefferson University.