house officer

English

house officer (plural house officers)

A physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.
- 2012, John A. Elefteriades, Curtis Tribble, Alexander S. Geha, House Officer's Guide to ICU Care, →ISBN:
  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.
- 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 21:
  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.