intern
88
4.5
- noun
- /ˈɪnˌtɜrn/
- Specialized
:
médico interno
- Each day, the intern took notes on patient interactions to improve her skills.
- medical intern
- interns and residents
- intern year
And I recall one month in my intern year, the one that was the most challenging was where I had a flare up of my IBD.
- And I recall one month in my intern year, the one that was the most challenging was where I had a flare up of my IBD.
Examples
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LEXI: As an intern, you saw the conditions of the clinic.
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From Sherman Oaks, he is a medical intern and desires to own his own practice.
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To assist in this professional development, the intern is required to keep a journal.
Academic text (1991) -
Begin this talk by sharing with you an experience I had as an undergraduate research intern many years ago.
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She'd been on a proper schedule to complete her intern year this spring.
Fiction book (1995) -
The cafeteria is empty except for one tired intern drinking coffee on a break.
Fiction book (1998) -
The CAT scan, according to the ER intern, revealed no tumors or bleeds.
Fiction book (1996) -
Doctor Ridgly Walters, a young intern in his late twenties, rushes up to them.
Fiction book (1996) -
As a medical intern, she spends long hours learning from experienced doctors.
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The intern observed various surgeries to understand the procedures better.
Synonyms
220
5.7
A doctor in training who lives and works in a hospital under senior doctors
6
8.1
A junior doctor who works in a hospital to learn and get practical experience
A person training to be a doctor while working with help from senior doctors in a hospital
A doctor in training who works in a hospital under a senior doctor
A doctor who lives in a hospital and cares for patients under senior doctors' supervision
A student or trainee who works at a hospital to get practical experience without living there
Compounds
- Specialized
A person training to be a doctor while working with help from senior doctors in a hospital
How Senior
537
3.8
- Formal
7
6.7
- Specialized
220
5.7
- Specialized
88
4.5
42
2.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Intern (a medical trainee) comes from the Latin internus 'inside' and from a word for a person who lived 'inside' a hospital, and it shares the root with internal. That's why a medical intern is a graduate working inside a hospital to learn under supervision.