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Researcher’s appointment with medic (7)

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I believe the answer is:

postdoc

'researcher's' is the definition.
(someone doing postdoctoral research)

'appointment with medic' is the wordplay.
'appointment' becomes 'post' (appointment to a job).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'medic' becomes 'doc' (doctor).
'post'+'doc'='POSTDOC'

(Other definitions for postdoc that I've seen before include "Researcher" , "Someone doing advanced research" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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