Teaching hospital

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A teaching hospital is a hospital which provides medical training to medical students and residents. Medical students typically spend two or three years in a teaching hospital doing clinical training, after completing their preclinical training in the medical school of a university. Residents are physicians who have recently completed medical school and are in training.

Many teaching hospitals have strong links with a nearby medical school.

In the United States most students use a matching plan as their agent in selecting the teaching hospital they prefer among the hospitals that want that student.

See also

• Physician
• Medical school
• University hospital

Sources

• National Resident Matching Plan