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Definition of Resident physician

1. Noun. A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital. "The resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital"

Medical Definition of Resident physician

1. An American term relating to a physician who has completed medical school and an internship and is in the process of receiving specialised training. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resident Physician

Literary usage of Resident physician

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Prison Methods in New York State, a Contribution to the Study of the Theory by Philip Klein (1920)
"In Bedford there was a resident physician from the first, or practically as ... The private reformatories have not generally had a resident physician and ..."

2. Prison Methods in New York State, a Contribution to the Study of the Theory by Philip Klein (1920)
"resident physician There is now no resident physician in any of the county penitentiaries except the New York Penitentiary on Black- wells Island which is ..."

3. Who's who in America by John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis (1903)
"Krad. med. dept. Univ. of New York. 1880. resident physician city Inst'ns on Blackwell's and Ward's Islands, 1880-1; ..."

4. A History of the Massachusetts General Hospital to August 5, 1851 by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch (1872)
"OFFICE OF resident physician AT THE HOSPITAL.— RESIGNATION OF SUPERINTENDENT GIRDLER, ... BS SHAW CHOSEN resident physician, AND PR. ..."

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