A hospital in which preprofessional students and graduates receive clinical experience are affiliated with one or more medical schools.
A hospital which provides undergraduate or graduate medical education, usually with one or more medical, dental or osteopathic (AMA, ADA or AOA approved) internship and residency programs and affiliation with a medical school. Hospitals which educate nurses and other health personnel without training physicians are not generally thought of as teaching hospitals. Nor are those which have only programs of continuing education for practicing professionals.
A hospital attached to a medical school where student doctors work and study as part of their training.
A hospital concerned with instructing medical students, house officers (residents), and allied health personnel in addition to providing medical care. The teaching programs may or may not be part of degree granting programs, but most provide practical and didactic training that is needed to gain licensure in the health professions.
A hospital that provides training for medical students, physicians, and other health-care workers.