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extern /ex·tern/ (ek´stern) a medical student or graduate in medicine who assists in patient care in the hospital but does not reside there.
ex·tern (kstûrn)
n.
An advanced student or recent graduate who assists in the medical or surgical care of hospital patients and may reside outside the institution.

extern
a veterinary student or graduate in veterinary science who assists in patient care in the hospital but does not reside there.

extern Graduate education A student in the 3rd or 4th yr of medical school–in North America, who attends ward rounds of a teaching hospital, and learns clinical medicine by example and quasi-active participation in Pt management. See Pimping. Cf Intern.


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The school added two Regent Externs that assist in the operation of the school and instruction.
A list of 285 educators was complied from data supplied by the coordinators of two School-to-Work consortiums that identified externs who had completed externships from 1995 to 1998.
28) Medical student externs, paid a modest stipend during breaks between first and second year classes, can reinforce their learning by beginning "hands on" life support skills by training with an experienced teacher/clinician.
 
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