externship

[ ek-sturn-ship ]

noun

1. a required period of supervised practice done off campus or away from one's affiliated institution:

   The young doctor served six months of externship at a nearby clinic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of externship¹

First recorded in 1940–45; extern + -ship

Example Sentences

Knowing that she was a singer, she said that Mount Sinai Hospital, where she had completed an externship, began to refer injured singers to her, trusting her with their rehabilitation.

From New York Times

Tamara Cedillo, 23, spends about “four long hours” a day traveling by bus from the three-bedroom house she shares with roommates in Carson to an externship as a medical assistant at the Torrance Urology Clinic.

From Los Angeles Times

Eppley sees participating in the trail as “kind of a funny full-circle moment” — he did an externship in 2010 after culinary school at that very spot.

From Washington Post

A native of North Carolina, Jennings is a culinary school graduate who did her externship at the respected City House in Nashville under chef Tandy Wilson before settling in for a multiyear stint at Rose’s Luxury, where she, ahem, rose to sous-chef.

From Washington Post

In culinary school, we were tasked with a months-long, post-graduation "externship" in order to apply our learned knowledge in a "real world" capacity.

From Salon