teaching hospital
noun
: a hospital that is affiliated with a medical school and provides means for medical education
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The gift was announced Wednesday, Jan. 28, by UC Davis, which said $80 million of it will go toward a new small-animal teaching hospital.
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Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
Jackson also serves as a teaching hospital through a partnership with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Sure, Pittsburgh Trauma being a teaching hospital naturally lends to scenes of literal instruction, but too often the show pushes past procedural necessity into something distractingly pedantic, even patronizing.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
Fairview owns health care facilities on the university’s Twin Cities campus, including the teaching hospital for the medical school.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 12 Nov. 2025
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Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
Jackson also serves as a teaching hospital through a partnership with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Sure, Pittsburgh Trauma being a teaching hospital naturally lends to scenes of literal instruction, but too often the show pushes past procedural necessity into something distractingly pedantic, even patronizing.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
Fairview owns health care facilities on the university’s Twin Cities campus, including the teaching hospital for the medical school.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 12 Nov. 2025
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teaching hospital
noun
teach·ing hospital
ˈtē-chiŋ- 
: 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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