Usage Note
Médecine refers to medicine as a field or discipline, not a physical pill or tablet — for medication you say un médicament. Studying medicine is faire médecine or étudier la médecine. La médecine générale is general practice (GP medicine), and a GP is un médecin généraliste.
Examples
"Elle étudie la médecine depuis trois ans."
Natural Translation
She has been studying medicine for three years.
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