After three months the junior doctors prepare for the end of their first attachments, so it's time to prove they can make decisions and stand on their own two feet.

'What's My Future?'

Four Months On

What They Don't Teach You in Medical School

The seven junior doctors discover that their first day on the job is a matter of life and death. Desperate to make a good impression, they soon learn that even the simplest task isn't easy, while one finds that his medical training in Italy could never have prepared him for the demands of a British emergency department.

Making a Good First Impression

The seven juniors are settling into life on the wards and discover the emotional cost of being a doctor. Tom is forced to think on his feet when his patient has a heart attack. Emily faces the harsh reality that she can't save everyone when she's thrown in at the deep end as the first doctor on the scene of a cardiac arrest.

Emotional Cost

The junior doctors discover the dark side of Liverpool and learn how to deal with the realities of patients addicted to alcohol and drugs. Keira's stitching skills are put to the test when a man with a four-inch head wound comes in to the Emergency Department.

Dealing with Addiction

The junior doctors discover that balancing a social life and the demanding hours of being a doctor is tough. Young dad Tristan spends more time with his patients than at home with his two-year-old daughter, working long hours to pay the rent, while Ed and Oli struggle to find the time to revise for their exams.

Work Life Balance

The junior doctors face a tough time on the wards and discover that there's plenty that medical school could never have prepared them for. Jen has to deal with the death of her favourite patient, while Emily's day goes from bad to worse when a prisoner she is treating escapes.

Highlights from the series about life on the wards for newly-qualified doctors, including new footage covering the Junior Doctors' first four months in the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. The programme follows their first tentative steps on the wards, dealing with life and death situations through to the end of their first placements.

Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands is a BBC Three television series looking at how a group of foundation doctors cope with life on the wards. Three series have been broadcast to date, all narrated by Jason Done.

The first, broadcast in 2011, focused on seven foundation doctors at Newcastle General Hospital and Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne, three of which were newly-qualified FY1s and four being FY2s. The second series was broadcast in 2012 and followed six FY1s and two FY2s at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. A third series, filmed at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, was broadcast in 2013 and followed five FY1 doctors and two FY2 doctors.

On 9 March 2011 the show achieved BBC Three's highest ever ratings for a factual entertainment programme, when 1.44 million people watched the third episode of the first series.

'What's My Future?'

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