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house officer

British  
/ ˈhaʊsmən /

noun

  1. US and Canadian equivalent: intern. med a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In 1965, with the help of John Geddes, a senior house officer, and technician Alfred Mawhinney, Prof Pantridge invented the world's first portable defibrillator, using car batteries for the current.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2016

He worked as a house officer at Leicester Royal Infirmary and remembers the hours being "long and horrendous".

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2016

Rani Naidoo, a senior house officer at the Northern General's gynaecology department at the time, went to assist in A&E after she heard "a number of sirens and ambulances coming up the hill".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2015

In 2001 two doctors, a professor of orthopaedic and accident surgery and a senior house officer, famously saved a woman's life on a flight from Hong Kong to London on which they were all travelling.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2011

It sees a gain even in the labor of the custom house officer.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White

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