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attending

attending

12 6.0
A doctor who has finished training and supervises medical students and junior doctors
  • noun
  • /əˈtɛndɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : médico responsable
  • Dr. Smith is the attending physician responsible for overseeing the medical interns this month.
  • attendings and residents
  • ER attending
  • pediatric attending

And at the end of that training, before launching out into being a, you know, private practice or academic attending physician.

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Examples

  • And at the end of that training, before launching out into being a, you know, private practice or academic attending physician.

  • As the main attending in charge, she guided the residents through their surgical training.

  • I'm the Attending for your father.

  • I had to sneak past three nurses and your Attending.

  • First, they can pay to receive care from the Attending Physician, but this does not cover inpatient care.

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  • My breast surgery attendings taught me techniques to maximize the cosmetic outcome after breast surgery.

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  • Lexie, next year when Karev and I are attendings, we will be assigning surgeries and putting in our recommendations for chief resident.

  • Each attending has a unique teaching style that benefits the medical students in different ways.

Antonyms

50 2.4

A person learning the skills needed for a job

How Senior

consultant
537 3.8
attending
  • Specialized
12 6.0
resident
  • Specialized
220 5.7
intern
  • Specialized
88 4.5

Surface Forms

attending singular
attendings plural

Morphology

attending = attend (semi-transparent) = attend + ing

Formally derived from 'attend' + '-ing', but the institutional sense 'the doctor responsible for a patient' is a specialized extension not automatically inferable by all learners.

Etymology

Attending for a doctor comes from attend and tend 'to be present and look after', so an attending physician is the senior doctor who is there, caring for patients and in charge of training others.