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teaching hospital
noun
: a hospital that is affiliated with a medical school and provides means for medical education
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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
Some in the development world have dismissed teaching hospitals, such as those that provide care for AIDS or cancer, as not cost-effective, nor sustainable, nor a wise use of scarce resources.
—Paul Farmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2013
The city’s teaching hospitals did a splendid job that day and in the days that followed: not a single patient who made it to a hospital died.
—Paul Farmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2013
These patients lived in the shadow of Harvard's great teaching hospital yet suffered from an incurable (though treatable) disease and chronic poverty.
—Paul Farmer, Foreign Affairs, 29 July 2011
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First Known Use
1933, in the meaning defined above
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“Teaching hospital.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teaching%20hospital. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Medical Definition
teaching hospital
noun
teach·ing hospital
ˈtē-chiŋ-
: 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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