teaching hospital

noun

: a hospital that is affiliated with a medical school and provides means for medical education

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That same judge extended that pause to the rest of the country later Monday in response to a lawsuit filed by associations representing teaching hospitals, public health and pharmacy schools and Boston- and New York-area hospitals. Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025 This time, 134 hospitals out of more than 2,000 in the country earned the Top Hospital Award for 2024, including eight children’s hospitals, 36 general hospitals, 15 rural hospitals and 75 teaching hospitals. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025 But hospital social workers are often overworked, said Kylie Haines, who manages a program for pregnant women with opioid use disorder at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the top maternity teaching hospitals in the nation. Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024 Reeder currently serves as system vice president and chief operating officer for Ochsner Medical Center, a hospital in the New Orleans area and a teaching hospital. Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for teaching hospital

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First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of teaching hospital was in 1933

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Medical Definition

teaching hospital

noun
teach·​ing hospital ˈtē-chiŋ- How to pronounce teaching hospital (audio)
: a hospital that is affiliated with a medical school and provides the means for medical education to students, interns, residents, and sometimes postgraduates
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