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

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house officer

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

A custom house officer applied for what was termed "a writ of assistance," which was an authority to search any house for dutiable articles suspected to be concealed in it.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John