clerk·ship
n : a course of clinical medical training in a specialty (as pediatrics, internal medicine, or psychiatry) that usu. lasts a minimum of several weeks and takes place during the third or fourth year of medical school <third-year medical study involves s in five areas, of which surgery is among the most arduous -N.Y. Times Mag.> .
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