Learns about the French doctors (7)

I believe the answer is:

healers

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'doctors' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'learns about the french' is the wordplay.
'learns' becomes 'hears' ('hear' can be a synonym of 'learn').
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'hears' going around 'le' is 'HEALERS'.

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I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.

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