teaching hospital

American  

noun

1. a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.

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teaching hospital British  

noun

1. a hospital that is affiliated to a medical school and provides the students with teaching and supervised practical experience

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Example Sentences

The Pitt is a teaching hospital where the residents learn lessons medical schools don’t teach.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025

A medical worker who saw patients at the facility in the winter recounted teaching hospital workers how to wash wounds.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024

Because I had given birth in a teaching hospital, a resident tried the procedure to stop the bleeding first.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023

For Jonsson and Zhang, the Nature publication is the culmination of years of work that began when both worked at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the teaching hospital of Harvard University.

From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023

The Brigham was part of a “medical mall” that included a teaching hospital, a full-service hospital, secondary-care facilities, and numerous physicians in private practice.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French