Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

housemanship

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: house-man-ship
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"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."

Inflected Forms

housemanships (plural)

Questions

What does housemanship mean?: 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.

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