staff (staf)
house staff,
house staff
1. a wooden rod or rodlike structure.
2. a grooved director used as a guide for the knife in surgery.
3. the professional personnel of a hospital.
staff of Aesculapius the rod or staff with entwining snake, symbolic of the god of healing, official insignia of the American Medical Association. See also caduceus. 
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Staff of Aesculapius.
attending staff the corps of attending physicians and surgeons of a hospital.
consulting staff specialists associated with a hospital and acting in an advisory capacity to the attending staff.
house staff the resident physicians and surgeons of a hospital.
| house staff n. The physicians and surgeons in specialty training at a hospital who care for patients under the direction and responsibility of attending staff. |
house staff,
the interns and residents who are employed at a hospital while receiving additional training after graduation from medical college.
house staff
Medical practice The body of physicians and other health care providers who participate in Pt management within the hospital. See Hospital-based physician, House physician, Medical staff, RAPER.
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