1A medical doctor attached to a particular hospital or other institution.
a house physician at Manhasset Medical Center on Long Island
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The doctor is house physician for an upscale hotel/casino.
He was appointed house physician to Birmingham General Hospital in 1848, and he held this office until 1852, when he left to enter private practice in Temple Row.
He worked as house physician in the East London Hospital for Children.
He worked for more than 12 years as house physician.
I remember the house physician saying the child only had a few months.
He returned to Nigeria to serve briefly as house physician at the General Hospital, Lagos.
Most surgeons and house physicians are male, whereas most nurses and surgical technologists are female.
He returned to St Bartholomew's where, briefly, he was both house physician and editor of its journal.
Her grandfather's last job was as house physician at Wade Park Manor.
Over the next 24 hours various people filtered in and out of room 552: the hotel manager, the house physician, and an undertaker.
1.1British A qualified doctor practising general medicine under supervision in hospital in the first year after graduation.
she spent three years as house physician
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The casualty department in the hospital where I was a young house physician many years ago had no casualty officer overnight.
He went to Adelaide University, qualifying in 1934 and spending two years as house physician and surgeon at Adelaide Hospital and Adelaide Children's Hospital.
He came to England to undertake postgraduate research, and in the following year became a house physician at the Hammersmith Hospital in London.
She spent three years as house physician, surgeon, and junior medical officer in the London County Council service.
Her first job was as house physician at the South London Hospital for Women and Children in Clapham.
He studied medicine and then was a house physician at the Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children and at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Seeking further training in paediatrics, she found that she could not apply to Great Ormond Street Hospital, since it had a policy of not employing women house physicians.
He had evidently made such an impression as a student and house physician that he was invited to return.
Once qualified, he served a short period as house physician at St Bartholomew's and then left to join the family practice in Bournemouth.
He was a house physician and assistant medical officer at University College.