RT Journal
A1 Antiel RM, Curlin FA, Hook C, Tilburt JC
T1 The impact of medical school oaths and other professional codes of ethics: Results of a national physician survey
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD March 14
VO 171
IS 5
SP 469
OP 471
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.47
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.47
AB 
Most US medical students participate in “white coat” ceremonies in which they recite an oath, often with reference to the Oath of Hippocrates. Reciting such oaths or endorsing shared ethical standards such as the American Medical Association (AMA) Code of Ethics can nurture professionalism by conveying a sense of gravity and belonging to something greater than oneself.1 Yet historic oaths can sound anachronistic to the modern ear, and the oaths sworn in most medical schools modify the original Hippocratic Oath by excluding significant portions and adding language deemed more fitting.2- 3 Revised oaths, while more relevant to contemporary medicine, may suffer from being arbitrary and self-serving.4- 5