There is no universal guideline for the activities of house officers in all the MDCN approved centers in Nigeria. Different centers tend to come up with their own guidelines, rules, and regulations for house officers. While in other centers, there are also no specific rules; you just follow the tides based on trends you see older house officers following. Meanwhile, in the center where I did my housemanship; the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, here are some duties we carried out as house officers: Taking samples for investigations from patients and sending them to the lab Retrieving results of the samples taken from the lab Making arrangements for patient’s blood and transfusing them Participating in ward rounds Assist in seeing patients in clinics and in emergency rooms Giving Intravenous medications to patients Filling lab forms for patient investigations Running some investigations in side labs like PCVs and micro ESR Prescribing medications for patients Writing out ward round summaries and treatment plans in patients’ case notes. and so on. These duties may vary from hospital to hospital. But in my center, house officers are at the fore front of patient care, and we carry out nearly all the treatment plans for patients with the help of our registrars. Then for major treatments like surgeries, senior registrars and consultants step in as the case may be.