clinician

English

Etymology

From French clinicien, equivalent to clinic +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: klĭnĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /klɪˈnɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

clinician (plural clinicians)

1. Any healthcare practitioner working at the point of care, in clinical practice (e.g., physicians in clinical medicine, nurses in nursing practice, or allied health providers in practice).
2. (chiefly US) Someone who conducts a clinic; an expert or skilled practitioner in a particular field, such as business or education. In this sense, a clinician is someone who provides practical advice or hands-on assistance to others in a specific area of expertise. For example, a business clinician might be an experienced consultant who helps companies improve their operations, while an education clinician might be a skilled teacher who provides professional development and support to other educators.

Hypernyms

• practitioner
• provider
• professional
• paraprofessional

Coordinate terms

• physician (all physicians are professionals, and most are also clinicians)
• nurse (all nurses are professionals, and most are also clinicians)

Derived terms

• interclinician
• nonclinician
• psychoclinician
• teleclinician

 

Translations

doctor working in a clinic

• Belarusian: клініцы́ст m (klinicýst)
• Catalan: clínic (ca) m, clínica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臨床醫生 / 临床医生 (línchuáng yīshēng)

• Danish: kliniker c
• Finnish: kliinikko (fi)
• German: Klinikmitarbeiter m, Klinikangestellter m, Krankenhausarzt m, Krankenhausärztin f, Kliniker (de) m (unusual), Klinikerin (de) f (unusual)
• Indonesian: klinisi (id)
• Italian: clinico (it) m
• Malay: klinisian
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kliniker m

  Nynorsk: klinikar m

• Polish: klinicysta (pl) m, klinicystka f
• Romanian: clinician (ro) m
• Russian: клиници́ст (ru) m (klinicíst), клиници́стка f (klinicístka)
• Swedish: kliniker (sv)
• Ukrainian: клініци́ст (uk) m (klinicýst)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} clinico (it) m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} kliniker (sv)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French clinicien.

Noun

clinician m (plural clinicieni)

1. clinician

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	clinician	clinicianul		clinicieni	clinicienii
genitive-dative	clinician	clinicianului		clinicieni	clinicienilor
vocative	clinicianule			clinicienilor