Teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital which provides medical training to medical students and residents. Medical students typically spend three years in a teaching hospital doing clinical training, after completing their preclinical training in the medical school of a university. Residents are physicians who have recently completed medical school and are in training.
Many teaching hospitals have strong links with a nearby medical school.
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History
Although institutions for caring for the sick are known to have been around much earlier in history, the first teaching hospital, where students were authorized to methodically practice on patients under the supervision of physicians as part of their education, was reportedly the pre-Islamic Academy of Gundishapur in the Persian Empire. The Sassanid era word Bimaristan literally translates into "Hospital". (E. Browne, Islamic Medicine, 2002, p.16, ISBN 81-87570-19-9.) Some experts further believe that "to a very large extent, the credit for the whole hospital system must be given to Persia". (A medical history of Persia, C. Elgood, Cambridge Univ. Press, p. 173.)
Admissions
In the United States most students use a matching plan as their agent in selecting the teaching hospital they prefer among the hospitals that want that student.
Cultural references
The American television shows ER, Scrubs, House, and Grey's Anatomy all take place in teaching hospitals (County General Hospital, Sacred Heart, Princeton-Plainsboro, and Seattle Grace, respectively).
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