teaching hospital

noun

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

Examples of teaching hospital in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And teaching hospitals may test your child for research. Suzie Glassman, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024 These are some of the perks listed in a new agreement between Florida International University and Baptist Health South Florida, the school’s future teaching hospital. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024 Michael Dell never did become a doctor, but his name is on his alma mater’s medical school, the university’s teaching hospital, and its pediatric research center. Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024 In 1961, he was granted a Harvard University fellowship, and studied state-of-the-art transplant procedures at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now part of Brigham and Women’s Hospital), one of Harvard’s teaching hospitals and where the first kidney transplant took place in 1954. Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024 Mohanty works at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024 In 2020, Medicare provided $4.5 billion to partially compensate teaching hospitals for education costs and an additional $11.68 billion to compensate teaching hospitals for the higher patient care costs that can accompany teaching. Abraham Nussbaum and Renee Y. Hsia, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023 Baptist Health, South Florida’s largest not-for-profit healthcare system, is in the process of becoming the teaching hospital for FIU, the largest public university in South Florida. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024 The city would get a brand-new medical school and teaching hospital, and low-income people would get more health care services. Rachel Cohrs Reprints, STAT, 2 Jan. 2024

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Word History

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 24 Apr. 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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