med student

noun

Clipped compound of medical student.

Meanings

nounmed student (plural med students)

plural med students

  1. informalClipped compound of medical student.

    Marta Rowh had flown in from Bend, Oregon, to help teach two “papaya workshops” as part of an MSFC conference that had drawn 450 med students from the US and Canada.

    2017 December 22, Joanna Walters, “Why medical students are practicing abortions on papayas”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2017
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    “A couple of years ago if you told me I'd sit in front of two students and show my breasts, I’d say you were out of your mind,” she [Mary Donovan] said. “But I had to get over my shyness to help med students get over theirs so they could help women discover if they had cancer and maybe a life would be saved.”

    2001 October 23, Perry Garfinkel, “Medical Students Get Taste of Real-Life Doctoring”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2009

    "I burned for her, much like the burning during urination that I would experience soon afterward," Kramer tells a group of med students as he sits on an exam table, a cigarette held rakishly between two fingers.

    2014 February 24, Eryn Brown, “Actors draw med school students into caregiver role”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 May 2014

Synonyms & antonyms

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