teaching hospital

noun

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

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Trump’s broader funding cuts for medical research hit hard here, home to so many teaching hospitals. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025 Besides being one of the largest public health systems in the nation, with more than 14,800 full-time employees, Jackson also serves as a teaching hospital through a partnership with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025 Trainee doctors constitute 30% to 45% of the physician workforce in major teaching hospitals, part of a system that relies on resident and interns’ cheap labor to offset the low reimbursement rates set by the government’s single-payer National Health Insurance System. Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025 Most of Europe's top hospitals are university or teaching hospitals that operate within a universal public health system. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 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 15 May. 2025.

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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