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BOCA RATON, Fla. (August 8, 2016) --The sixth annual “White Coats-4-Care” reception -- sponsored and hosted by Kaye Communications and attended by 220 guests including donors, students, and key leaders from within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine -- raised $47,000 to ‘dress and equip’ this year’s incoming class of medical students with a portion of the proceeds going to scholarships at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. Co-hosted for the fifth year by the Waterstone Resort & Marina, the event is presented annually to heighten awareness of the ‘first and only’ medical school in Palm Beach County, to embrace Florida’s future physicians with a warm community welcome and raise vital funds to equip these students with the tools they need to begin their medical education and launch their careers. Since its inception, the annual WC4C events have raised a total of nearly $200,000. “This year we introduced a new dynamic to the reception that demonstrated how our future physicians learn,” noted Kaye Communications Founder & Chief Strategist Bonnie Kaye who along with firm partner and husband Jon Kaye created and has presented the WC4C reception for six consecutive years. Attendees were front-and-center as second-year medical students responded to a life-threatening patient emergency in simulated experience with patient mannequin named “Martha” from the FAU Simulation Center. “As a community-based medical school, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine is truly ‘your’ medical school - and our ultimate goal is to serve you,” shared Interim Dean Arthur J. Ross, III. “Our entire reason for existing is to improve the health and wellness of the people of South Florida and beyond. We do so via the students and residents we educate as well as by the knowledge we discover. People don’t just want to live longer, they want to live better and be well.” “Being an annual sell-out event during the summer months, speaks volumes as community leaders in business, healthcare, education and government recognize and converge to celebrate one of Boca Raton’s most treasured health and wellness assets and support its new incoming class of medical students,” added Jon Kaye. Sponsors include Excell Auto Group, Dalsimer Atlas, Republic National, Connie Duglin Specialty Linen Rental, Boca Magazine and Boca Tribune. (more) FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine officially welcomed its sixth incoming class of 64 students on Friday, August 5th at its coveted White Coat Ceremony. During the ceremony, each medical student received a white coat that represents integrity, compassion and trust and symbolizes their shared commitment to serve patients and honor an oath they will collectively develop before the ceremony that will serve as its own code of conduct throughout medical school and as physicians. A ‘welcome to the community’ note from each WC4C donor was inserted into a student’s coat pocket. The incoming class has a cumulative GPA of 3.7 and an average MCAT score of 32, which is above the national average. Most of the major colleges in Florida are represented including students from FAU. Other students in the class attended undergraduate institutions such as Boston University, Yale University, George Washington University, University of California-Davis, Brigham Young University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Johns Hopkins, Ohio State University, and others. For more information about “White Coats-4-Care”, pledge your gift or make a contribution, contact Joanna Duran at the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, at duranj@health.fau.edu or 561.297.2097.