teaching hospital

noun

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

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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 For American teaching hospitals, July is a month of transition. Dr. Sathvik Namburar, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024 The federal government caps the total annual number of H1-B visas, though nonprofit teaching hospitals are exempt from the cap. Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 15 July 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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“Teaching hospital.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teaching%20hospital. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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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