Rites of Passage - Vocational/Professional

Vocational/Professional

  • White coat ceremony in medicine and pharmacy.
  • The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, also known as the Iron Ring Ceremony
  • Walk on Water: Second-year students must pass the competition to continue in the school of architecture at Florida International University in the United States

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Famous quotes containing the words vocational and/or professional:

    “Nothing bad’s going to happen to us. If we get fired, it’s not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    “Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses, whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled touch, patient watchfulness and unwearied vigils, are as great factors in the care of the sick, as are the professional physicians.”
    —Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)