group practice
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3.6
- noun
- /ɡruːp ˈpræktɪs/
- Specialized
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consulta médica
- The central focus of this study is the implications for managing group practices, especially those affiliated with a hospital.
- specialty group practice
- multispecialty group practice
- private group practice
Examples
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Primary medical group practice executives are also rethinking patient care processes to keep their practices market competitive.
Academic text (1997) -
Doctors in a group practice can share resources to provide better patient care.
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Technology is beginning to play a small but important role in group practice.
Academic text (1997) -
I am writing on this topic because it is so relevant to my group practice right now.
Blog text (9) -
Some were required to do so by their group practice managers or colleagues.
Academic text (2011) -
Financing these activities was an investment in building membership, not in destroying a group practice.
Academic text (2001) -
The Clinic is a group practice with physician leadership, but with no financial incentives in place for salaried physicians.
Academic text (2017) -
Many predict that this projected decrease in revenue will force physicians to form larger group practices to reduce administrative and overhead costs.
Academic text (1993) -
I decided to join a local group practice to benefit from shared facilities.
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The new group practice in town offers a range of services to patients.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'group' (several people seen as a unit) with 'practice' (the business/work of a doctor), yielding a medical practice operated by multiple physicians. This straightforward noun–noun composition follows common English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun group practice comes from the simple picture of several doctors as a group working together in the same 'practice', a doctor's office, and sharing rooms, staff, and costs. So, it means a medical organization where doctors work together and share facilities, expenses, and staff.