In the military, medical officers are promoted at the time they receive their M.D. diploma. Last week, College of Medicine graduates Hannah Prock Gibbs, Avery Johnson, Matthew Naedel and Joseph Ziebelman took their military orders and promotion pins moments after being declared physicians.<\/p>\n
The person giving those orders onstage at the Addition Financial Arena was Richard Peppler, vice dean and associate dean for faculty and academic affairs, a retired Army Colonel with 35 years of service in the Army Reserve.<\/p>\n
Peppler has given the military oath to 麻豆原创 Physician Knights for the past eight years. He retires in June after 14 years leading medical education at the College of Medicine. This year\u2019s military students are in the U.S. Navy and Air Force and will do their residency training in military hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter 35 years in the military, it\u2019s nice to see the physicians of today still want to serve their country and provide care to our veterans and their families.\u201d \u2014 Vice Dean Richard Peppler<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t think of anyone who better embodies the traits of integrity, service and pursuit of excellence that overlap when it comes to being a physician and a military officer,\u201d says Jeff LaRochelle, assistant dean for medical education and a Colonel in the Air Force Reserves who also participated in the pinning ceremony.<\/p>\n
Peppler, who attended a military prep school starting in the ninth grade, says military service taught him discipline and organization. He jokes that he still makes his bed every morning.<\/p>\n
A lifelong medical educator, Peppler was the second person hired at the 麻豆原创 College of Medicine in 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in anatomy and taught first-year students in the college\u2019s state-of-the-art Anatomy Lab.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s superstitious so he won\u2019t call Friday\u2019s pinning ceremony his last \u2014 saying he may pin a niece or nephew at some point after retirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter 35 years in the military,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019s nice to see the physicians of today still want to serve their country and provide care to our veterans and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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