 What's up you guys? This is Dana. Welcome back to my channel. So I had a question post to me about the white coat Like what is the white coat? What does it essentially symbolize and like what length should it be? So that is what I'm gonna be answering in today's video It was asked by Susan Kikonoko. I hope I said that right. Um, she said hi Adana Is there a particular coat length that PA should wear? Does it really matter which kind of white coat one wears? And so I mean honestly, I don't know if it really matters. Like is the white coat police gonna come and get you? No, I don't think so, right? But honestly, um, what we were taught when I was going into PA school when I was like kind of matriculating PA through PA school, the short white coat is for when you're a student. So when I was a student, I had a short white coat. We got our white coats Essentially like right after our first semester of PA school because we were gonna be in the clinic seeing patients And so they wanted us to look professional And they wanted those individuals that we were seeing to know that hey, we are, you know students and we're still learning So don't hold it against us But honestly once we got into clinical rotations, we saw the med students also had short white coats And so this was just kind of the universal way of showing that these are student learners They are professionals. They are like in the health care field And so kind of like, you know, just an easy way to identify who you're dealing with The white coat really symbolizes kind of like just exactly what I said It's all about like professionalism and that you're like the authority I guess you could say, like it's a way for your patients to kind of identify like, oh, okay This is the person that is gonna be taking care of me and you know telling me, you know What's going on? And so that is what we did when we were in PA school Once we graduated PA school, we were blessed with our long white coats And so that symbolized that, you know, you have made it, you know, you have graduated