intern/interne:
(plural: ‘interns‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘in’ rhyme with the word “in” and the letters ‘tern’ rhyme with the word “turn”)
medical interns
a person/student who has nearly or recently finished professional training, especially medicine or teaching, and is gaining controlled practical experience in a hospital or classroom under the supervision of an experienced/senior person;
(in US & Canada) a junior most medical doctor of a hospital, usually a resident in the hospital (in this context, a ‘house officer‘ or ‘houseman‘ in UK; a ‘house surgeon‘ in countries like India; and also in general a ‘medical intern‘ ),
farm interns at work
After completion of her four year medical course, Susan had served as an intern in a hospital serving each department for a month or so before was finally given her license and registration to practice medicine on her own.
It is said that about one hundred interns are selected from a pool of six thousand applicants every term, for different departments and mostly for the menial tasks, in the White House, the U S president’s residence.
There are many institutions that help graduates to prepare for their internships and most interns complete their internships with great difficulty, practically heaving a sigh of relief after successful completion, because learning theory in classroom and lecture halls is different from hands-on work practice.
Ivory coast internees released from Liberian internment camp, Africa, on 13 March 2012
