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With three-and-a-half months of learning beneath them, the 34 students who comprise the Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Class of 2025 marked a milestone in their medical education and training.

Katz has been hosting the White Coat Ceremony for almost a decade, continuing the long-standing tradition of this momentous occasion for the MD class of 2027.

The Class of 2023 is the sixth to graduate since the PA program’s launch at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

Experts predict that a technology called POCUS will transform the practice of medicine. And, in a first for medical education in the eastern United States, the Lewis Katz School of Medicine has supplied the technology to every medical student in its classes of 2024 and 2025 within the same academic year.

Taking a major step forward in HIV research, Temple researchers have successfully edited SIV – a virus closely related to HIV, the cause of AIDS – from the genomes of non-human primates. This breakthrough brings the research team closer than ever to developing a cure for human HIV infection.