Young Doctors is an Australian factual television

Factual television

Factual television is a genre of non-fiction television programming that documents actual events and people. These type of programs are also described as documentary, observational documentary, fly on the wall, docudrama, and reality television...

 show that follows the everyday work of first and second-year junior doctors. The newly qualified professionals start work on the wards at John Hunter Hospital

John Hunter Hospital

The John Hunter Hospital is the principal referral centre and a community hospital for Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Northern New South Wales. It is the main teaching hospital of the University of Newcastle...

 in Newcastle, New South Wales

Newcastle, New South Wales

The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

. The show began on Nine Network

Nine Network

The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

on 26 October 2011.

The interns are Dr Colinda Holmes and Dr Rory Gledhill – Surgery; Dr Kate Haggar – Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Dr Leila Usher – Emergency; Dr Ineke Wever – Cardiothoracic; Dr Michael Burgess – General Medicine; and Dr Mike Pomroy – Medical Acute Care Unit.