medical student
42
2.3
- noun
- /ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈstjuːdənt/
:
estudiante de medicina
- You've never seen a medical student before?
- physicians and medical students
- residents and medical students
- teach medical students
There are models, latex models, that medical students can practice on.
- There are models, latex models, that medical students can practice on.
- And he was living with this brilliant medical student.
- So then House asks the medical students in the lecture theatre what should they do next?
- That whole mantra, I've not really heard very much from actual medical students.
- There is the case of the dyslexic Yale medical student Fred Romberg, currently a practicing anesthesiologist.
- They would dig up newly buried bodies and sell them to medical students so that they could, you know, experiment and practice surgery.
- And when I was a second year medical student, I'd just gotten married and my wife tried to kill herself.
- One of our medical students who we were training to communicate better was on rounds with a supervising MD.
- And I was part of a study where I was given LSD and among other medical students.
- They simply their medical students would take turns putting themselves into a brief period of death.
Examples
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As a medical student, I spend a lot of time studying anatomy and physiology.
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Many clinicians and medical students receive very little training in this area.
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I am a medical student.
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- Are you guys medical students?
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Two medical students I once knew.
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But it's not very difficult for a medical student to get what she needs.
Fiction book (1997) -
I found out he was a medical student at Columbia.
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I met my husband when he was a medical student in Vienna.
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The majority of managed care organizations do not teach medical students, residents, and fellows.
Academic text (1999) -
I'm a medical student.
Synonyms
A student who studies to become a doctor
How Advanced
42
2.3
- US
3
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'medical student' is a straightforward adjective+noun combination where 'medical' (relating to medicine) modifies 'student' (someone learning), so the meaning 'a student studying medicine' is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English noun phrase formation, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Medical student is a simple compound of the two parts medical ('about medicine') and student ('a learner'). Imagine a learner standing next to a doctor in a hospital, watching and learning from patients. So, the phrase means 'a student training to become a doctor'.