A senior house officer (SHO) is a junior doctor undergoing training within a certain speciality in the Republic of Ireland or formerly in the British National Health Service. SHOs are supervised by consultants and registrars, who oversee their training and are their designated clinical (and in many cases educational) supervisors. In the United States, physicians in training are also sometimes referred to as "senior house officers" in their later years of residency, but the term is more variable in its American than British usage.
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