Meaning of house officer | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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