Housemanship

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.