housemanship

English

Noun

housemanship (plural housemanships)

1. 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.