RESIDENT PHYSICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resident physician mean? 

• RESIDENT PHYSICIAN (noun)
  The noun RESIDENT PHYSICIAN has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: RESIDENT PHYSICIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDENT PHYSICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

house physician; resident; resident physician

Context example:

the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital

Hypernyms ("resident physician" is a kind of...):

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

 Context examples 

The physician may have the added responsibility of supervising resident physicians or medical students, and involving consulting physicians in the prescribed plan of care.

(Attending Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

This technique has great potential to become a screening tool that helps decide who should undergo more expensive and invasive testing for Alzheimer's disease prior to the appearance of clinical symptoms, said the study's first author, Bliss E. O'Bryhim, MD, PhD, a resident physician in the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences.

(Predicting Alzheimer's Disease May Be Possible Using Eye Exam, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)