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noun
intern  n.  
1.
(Med.) A resident physician in a hospital, especially one who has recently received the Doctorate and is practising under supervision of experienced physicians, as a continuation of the training process; a house physician; also called houseman in Britain. (Also spelled interne)
2.
A person working as an apprentice to gain experience in an occupation; sometimes the position is paid a salary, and other times it is not; as, a white house intern; an intern in a law firm.






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"Intern" Quotes from Famous Books



... "nine times out of ten. That call I got last evening that broke up the dinner party,—an intern at the County Hospital would have done just as well as I. There was nothing to it at all. Oh, it was a sort of satisfaction to the husband's feelings, I suppose, to pay me a thousand dollars and be satisfied that nobody in town could have paid more and got ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... school, it was clear that the hospital was not for me. I especially didn't like its rigid hierarchical system, where all bowed down to the doctors. The very first week in school we were taught that when entering a elevator, make sure that the doctor entered first, then the intern, then the charge nurse. Followed by, in declining order of status: graduate nurses, third year nurses, second year nurses, first year nurses, then nursing aids, then orderlies, then ward clerks, and only then, the cleaning staff. No matter what the doctor said, the nurse ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon



Words linked to "Intern" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, interne, medico, internist, doctor, work, U.K., Great Britain, detain, United Kingdom, confine, Britain, internment, doc, UK, medical intern, md, houseman, Dr., internship



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