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A physician, usually employed by the hospital, who serves as the administrative head of the medical staff. “Medical director” tends to be the title for the chief of staff when that person is a paid hospital employee. The title may also be “vice president for medical affairs” or something similar. This term is discussed further under chief of staff.<\/p>\n

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A physician, usually employed by the hospital, who serves as the administrative head of the medical staff. “Medical director” tends to be the title for the chief of staff when that person is a paid hospital employee. The title may also be “vice president for medical affairs” or something similar. This term is discussed further […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m"],"yoast_head":"\nMedical director hospital - Definition of Medical director hospital<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A physician, usually employed by the hospital, who serves as the administrative head of the medical staff. "Medical director" tends to be the title for the chief of staff when that person is a paid hospital employee. 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