teaching hospital

noun

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

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There, Southern is a main street, intersecting with a road leading to Florida’s only rural teaching hospital. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2025 The report says patients treated at major teaching hospitals – where future health care professionals receive practical hands-on training – have up to 20% higher odds of survival than those treated at non-teaching hospitals. Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 11 June 2025 The trial was held at Mass Eye and Ear, an international center for treatment that is a member of Mass General Brigham and a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School. Megan Forrester, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025 Nicklaus Children’s Hospital has become the official pediatric teaching hospital of Florida International University’s medical school. Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 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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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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