Emergency: First Time Medics (2023)
Emergency: First Time Medics
2023Based at The Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Emergency: First Time Medics will focus on newly qualified doctors, known as Senior House Officers (SHOs), as they are thrown into the deep end at the start of their year-long placement on the NHS frontline.
Seasons & Episode
Day 1 in the Emergency Department for the junior doctors. Hira loses a patient, Claire looks after a seriously ill man with a broken hip, and Zak treats a woman who's fallen off her horse.
Junior Doctor Alex handles a paracetamol overdose, and a high-risk heart patient. Adnan braves his first shift in Resus, and Claire deals with a woman in agonising stomach pain.
Week 2 in the ED for the junior doctors. Adrian does a tricky blood test on a critically-ill patient, and Tej spots something worrying some test results, meaning his patient needs life-saving surgery.
Claire confronts her fears with her first child patient. Tejas steps up to his first trauma case - a man badly injured in an assault. And Adrian takes the plunge with his first chest drain.
It's the night shift for the junior doctors. Adrian's ego takes a hit as he bites off more than he can chew, and Ese has to solve the mystery of a patient's unexplained collapse.
It's Reading Festival weekend! Tej treats a 17 year old crushed in a mosh pit, Adrian deals with an 18 year old who's struggling to breathe and Tristan witnesses his first ever seizure.
With a month under their belts, the junior doctors are growing in confidence. Just as well, as they face up to some of their most challenging cases.
Based at The Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Emergency: First Time Medics will focus on newly qualified doctors, known as Senior House Officers (SHOs), as they are thrown into the deep end at the start of their year-long placement on the NHS frontline.