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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Dr. Peter Nickerson, Dean, Max Rady College of Medicine, and the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, speaks to the assembled crowd during the Inaugural Day Exercises. Family, friends and medical dignitaries gather in the Brodie Centre Atrium, Bannatyne Campus, 727 McDermot Avenue, for the University of Manitoba’s Inaugural Day Exercises of the largest medical class in University of Manitoba history, the Class of 2027. The Max Rady College of Medicine will see 125 incoming medical students this coming year up from 110 students in recent years. During the event the new students take part in the White Coat Ceremony and recite the Physician’s Pledge. See Tessa Adamski story 230823 - Wednesday, August 23, 2023.