housemanship
English
Noun
housemanship (plural housemanships)
- A stage of graduate medical training in the UK and many former British colonies, which follows the acquisition of an M.D., in which the new physician serves as a house officer under the supervision of a registrar or attending physician.
- 2009, Brian Whittle & Jean Ritchie, Harold Shipman - Prescription For Murder, →ISBN:
- Fred Shipman stayed on in Pontefract for another two years and seven months after he was fully qualified, doing a senior housemanship, during which time he acquired a diploma in child health and a diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology.
- 2012, Uduak Victor Robert, Awaken the Superstar in You, →ISBN:
- After his one-year housemanship at Owo, he set up his clinic and even his former colleagues who criticised him patronised his clinic for constant medical check up.
- 2015, Pagalavan Letchumanan, Hard Truths Of Being a Doctor Vol 2: Life and Challenges, →ISBN:
- In Malaysia, it is compulsory for doctors to undergo housemanship for two years after completing a medical degree. During housemanship, they are rotated between six departments ‒ emergency, medical, paediatric, general surgery, orthopaedic, and obstetrics and gynaecology ‒ spending four months in each.
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