medico
8.1
A student who studies to become a doctor
- noun
- /ˈmɛdɪkoʊ/
- UK
:
estudiante de medicina
- The group of friends included a medico who often shared interesting facts about health.
Examples
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During her summer internship, he learned a lot from the experienced medico supervising her.
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As a second-year medico, she spends most of her time studying anatomy.
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I'm by way of being a medico myself.
Synonyms
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4.5
A medical graduate working in a hospital to gain supervised experience
is usually earlier in training and used informally for enrolled learners
medical student
vsmedico
42
2.3
A student training to become a doctor
is an informal name used in casual speech for the same trainee
3.4
A person training to be a doctor while working with help from senior doctors in a hospital
is a more general enrolled trainee not focused on supervised clinical work
5.5
A student or trainee who works at a hospital to get practical experience without living there
is the informal general term rather than a temporary hospital placement
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Medico originally means 'doctor', but in informal use it can also mean a student training to become one. A helpful way to remember this is that the word shares the root of medicine, so a medico in this sense is a future healer or a medical student.