clinician

noun cli·ni·cian \ kli-ˈni-shən \

|Updated on: 16 Aug 2018

Definition of clinician

1 : a person qualified in the clinical practice of medicine, psychiatry, or psychology as distinguished from one specializing in laboratory or research techniques or in theory

2 : a person who conducts a clinic

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Recent Examples of clinician from the Web

Kevin Streekstra, another correctional institution sergeant made slightly under Frisch, $168,000 working 87.5 hours a week on average. Sook Bae, a nurse clinician, worked 81.7 hours a week on average, making $216,000.

— natalie dreier, ajc, "Overtime helps correctional officer triple base pay before retirement, boosting pension," 10 July 2018
Current plans are for a part-time clinician to provide STD testing and educational materials to students at Cosumnes River College and Sacramento City College.

— hannah holzer, sacbee, "STD rates rise in Sacramento County, following statewide, nationwide trends," 2 July 2018
The high volume of patients was exhausting, and the fellowship offered an opportunity to think about whether being a clinician was the right fit.

— patricia r. olsen, The Seattle Times, "Tracking disease: Critical, but often unglamorous work," 25 June 2018
At Casa Padre, each child is assigned a clinician to help them deal with trauma and mental health issues, according to ABC News.

— jewel wicker, Teen Vogue, "Journalists Visited a Texas Detention Center That Houses Immigrant Children, Here’s What They Found," 14 June 2018
This sort of reaction, and the weight Stokes feels when people talk about suicide being preventable, is something Walker understands as both a survivor and a clinician.

— jessica ravitz, CNN, "A widow struggles to make sense of suicide when there were no signs," 8 June 2018
Each group includes specific behaviors, a certain number of which clinicians have to identify.

— lina zeldovich, Science | AAAS, "Cold parenting? Childhood schizophrenia? How the diagnosis of autism has evolved over time," 9 May 2018
Before Kaiser Permanente started its ketamine program, Turner's team had consulted with an extensive range of researchers and clinicians, including Wolfson.

— moises velasquez-manoff, WIRED, "Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug," 8 May 2018
Diasyst, a health IT company based in Atlanta that engages patients to collect real-time information about their blood sugar levels to advise clinicians how to manage their medications.

— maria clark, NOLA.com, "Diabetes is a top killer in Louisiana. This tech startup just won $36,000 for its idea to help.," 21 Mar. 2018

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First Known Use of clinician

1875

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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CLINICIAN Defined for English Language Learners

clinician

noun

Definition of clinician for English Language Learners

: a person (such as a doctor or nurse) who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher

Medical Dictionary

clinician

noun cli·ni·cian \ klin-ˈish-ən \

medical Definition of clinician

: an individual qualified in the clinical practice of medicine, psychiatry, or psychology as distinguished from one specializing in laboratory or research techniques or in theory