Foundation Doctors

Dr Nat Quail and Dr Thalia Massa are Foundation Year (FY) doctors working in the Acute Receiving Unit (ARU). An FY doctor is a newly qualified doctor 1 or 2 years out of medical school. They take care of day-to-day jobs such as performing blood tests, taking notes and prescribing drugs or fluids. Most of the bigger decisions they make (such as deciding on a management plan for a patient) are checked over by a more senior doctor.