The Housejob Journal · Opens 1 October 2026
The house-job year
is already slipping.
The drug you looked up at 2am. The regimen your registrar rattled off in the corridor. The case that taught you something you have never seen written down anywhere. By March, most of it is gone, or it is on the back of a discharge slip in a coat you stopped wearing.
What is coming
Ten sections.
One very real year.
Not a planner with motivational quotes. A working document for a working year, built around how a house officer's year actually runs. Begin with dates and money. Track the skills and drugs you meet. Keep regimens, calls, cases and research findable. Leave room for ordinary notes and the stories you will only understand later.
Important Dates
Exams, submissions, and the deadlines that move without telling you.
Budget
A house officer's stipend, tracked honestly.
Clinical Skills
The procedures you have done, the ones you still need, logged as you go.
Drug Bank
Brand names and doses in your own hand, from your own wards, the way you will actually recall them.
Regimens & Prescriptions
The protocols you keep re-looking-up. Write them once.
Your own notes, not a reference. Confirm doses before prescribing.
Monthly Planner
Four rotations, month by month, with the calls and the plan for each.
Case Studies
The patients who taught you something. The beginning of every paper you will ever write.
Research Ideas
The question you had on a ward round at 4am, kept somewhere you can find it in six months.
Notes Space
The largest section in the book, because most of the year does not fit a template.
Stories to Remember
The year was not only clinical. Keep that part too.
In use
The Rounds Room
A doctor's notes
for your house-job year.
Three times a week, from the doctor who built The Housejob Journal. No selling in there. Just rounds. If it helps you, send it to a batchmate.
A clinical tip. The thing you will be asked on rounds before you have had chai.
House-job survival. Nights, rotas, difficult seniors, protecting one day a week.
Study and career. Logbooks, FCPS, and the audit hiding in whatever annoys you on the ward.
Ward Reps
Bring your batch.
One trusted person per batch helps their batchmates order together, in a single drop. You already answer their questions. This makes it official, and it gets everyone their copy on the same day.
Share it with your batch and collect who wants one.
Send us one list. You never handle money or parcels, we do.
Reps earn a free journal for every ten batchmates who order. We confirm the details with you directly.
Buying for a whole cohort as a college, hospital or society? Message us and we will send batch terms.
Why it exists
I made this because
I lost my own house-job year.
Not the hours. Those I remember. I mean the actual knowledge, the drugs, the doses, the small corrections a consultant made once that I never wrote down. I kept telling myself I would organise it later. Later never came.
The Housejob Journal is the notebook I needed and could not find in Pakistan. Write in it for a year, and you arrive at your FCPS prep with a drug bank, a case file, and a research list that are yours. That is the whole idea.
Dr. Laiba Khaliq, MBBS · Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi · Founder, Rounds n Co