Doctors to Be

Doctors to Be
Doctors to Be
Genre Biographical documentary
Country of origin United Kingdom
Language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Edward Briffa[1]
Editor(s) Robin Brightwell[1]
Location(s) London, England
Production company(s) BBC
Broadcast
Original channel BBC Two
First shown in 1992

Doctors to Be is a biographical documentary series that was first broadcast on BBC Two by BBC Television and is also the name of a BBC book that accompanied the series. The television series follows 10 medical students who enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School (now a part of Imperial College School of Medicine) in the 1985 intake of students. It starts in 1984 with their admission interviews, then follows them through five or six years as medical students, and ends with their first experiences of working as busy junior hospital doctors in the National Health Service.

The BBC decided to make the series in 1983 and the BBC contacted several medical schools. The BBC selected St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, England, partly because the Dean, Prof Peter Richards, was enthusiastic about filming and thought that medical education was of public interest. Filming began in November 1984 when applicants were applying for university and going to interviews for the 1985 intake at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. St Mary's Medical School interviewed 419 applicants and 100 of these interviews were filmed. In the autumn of 1985, when studies had started, every student in the year was asked if they wanted to take part in the television series, and 10 students, who were thought to be outgoing and resilient to the pressures of filming, were chosen by the BBC. Each of the 10 medical students were filmed regularly and about 300 hours of film accumulated in total.[2]

The series was one of the nominations for the best factual series at the 1992 British Academy Television Awards, although it did not win an award.[3] An update, Doctors to Be: 20 Years On, was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2007.[4]

Contents

Participating medical students

The series focused on 10 medical students who enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London in the 1985 intake:[5]

  • Dong Ching Chiu – A foreign student of Chinese origin from Sarawak, Malaysia. She moved England aged 15 years to do her O levels and then A levels at a boarding school, and she was aged 19 years at the time of her interview.[6]
  • David Copping –
  • Mark George –
  • Jane Gilbert –
  • Will Liddell – A postgraduate attending interviews at age 26 years.[7]
  • Sarah Martindale –
  • Jane Morris –
  • Fey Probst – Married at age 18 years, she was a mother of four before she became a medical student at age 26 years.[8]
  • John Shephard – A mature applicant of 28 years. He left school at age 16 years to join the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and married at the age of 20. He resigned his job 1984 to start a one year A level course at a local college.[9]
  • Ese Stacey –

References

  1. ^ a b Spindler. 1992. Acknowledgements. vii–viii.
  2. ^ Spindler. 1992. pages 1–3.
  3. ^ "Television Nominations 1992". BAFTA. 1992. http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/nominations/?year=1992. Retrieved 10 April 2010. 
  4. ^ "Episodes from Doctors to Be: 20 Years On broadcast in 2007". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0084gb6/episodes/2007. Retrieved 10 April 2010. 
  5. ^ Spindler. 1992. page 2.
  6. ^ Spindler. 1992. pages 14–15.
  7. ^ Spindler. 1992. pages 16–18.
  8. ^ Spindler. 1992. page 23–24.
  9. ^ Spindler. 1992. pages 20–22.

Cited texts

  • Spindler, Susan (1992). Doctors to Be. BBC Books. ISBN 056336095X. 

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