house officer

plural house officers

1. A physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.

   Throughout her penultimate and final years of medical school, she’d been consumed with visions of herself as a house officer. Taking delivery, scrubbing in for surgery, clerking a patient and drawing up an impeccable treatment plan.

   2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 21

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   The house officer may be intimidated by the broad range of choices of inotropic and vasoconstrictive agents at his disposal. It behooves the house officer to become familiar with a small number of drugs representing the various categories of effect and mechanism.

   2012, John A. Elefteriades, Curtis Tribble, Alexander S. Geha, House Officer's Guide to ICU Care, →ISBN