单词 | to walk the wards |
释义 | > as lemmasto walk the wards P6. to walk the hospitals (also a hospital): (of a medical student) to receive clinical instruction and gain experience by assisting in the work of doctors or surgeons. Similarly to walk the wards: to perform rounds in a hospital, either as a doctor or as a medical student. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical training > receive medical training [verb (intransitive)] > specific to walk the hospitals (also a hospital)1705 intern1906 1705 R. Pitt Frauds Common Pract. Physick 60 Our modern Physicians make a little Voyage over Sea,..hear a scanty Set of Lectures, pass a Course of Anatomy and Chymistry by the Eye,..walk the Hospitals two or three days, and bring home the purchas'd Degrees. 1773 Sentimental Spy II. v. 92 For whilst he walked the hospitals, his time was chiefly employed in picking up idle stories of his acquaintance. 1781 G. White Let. to S. Barker 26 Nov. I have not yet heard—whether he will walk the hospitals in town. 1800 J. Bell Answer Junior Members Royal Coll. Surgeons i. 31 There was a rotation of surgeons..; there were groups of young men walking the wards, paying fees to the hospital. 1807 J. Feltham Picture of London (ed. 8) 235 The combined method of walking the hospitals and attending lectures. 1851 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) (Electronic text) 3 Nov. As you walk the wards of an hospital you are at one time engaged with a case of thoracic, at another with a case of abdominal disease. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. ix. 333 He became..a..medical student, came up to London to walk the hospitals. 1928 Science 21 Sept. 262/1 A hundred years ago the common portal of entry into the medical profession was by a preliminary apprenticeship... This lasted for five years, after which it was usual for the student to ‘walk the hospitals’. 1964 J. Bernstein Analyt. Engine ii. 23 William read medicine, took a medical degree and had ‘walked the hospitals’ before he decided to earn his living as a computer. 1999 M. Bliss William Osler viii. 310 By the 1890s it was possible to get a decent training in the preclinical medical sciences at Oxford, walk the wards for a year or two in London, and, upon examination..get an Oxford medical degree. < as lemmas |
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