medical student vs student

medical student and student both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
medical student	Yes	No	No	No
student	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, student is a hypernym of medical student; that is, student is a word with a broader meaning than medical student:

Other hypernyms of medical student include educatee, pupil.

medical student (noun)	student (noun)
a student in medical school	a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs