Wanted: medical students and junior doctors with a sense of humour

Editor - I am a screenwriter and I am about to write a feature film script which features medical student or junior doctor characters or both. This is not a casualty type medical drama but a road movie in which the characters are training in medicine. The background and authenticity of the characters will be very important. can your readers help me with my research?

I am looking for medical students or junior doctors who feel like sharing strange, wonderful, stressful, funny, touching, and simply bizarre anecdotes from their training days and from hospital life. I am looking for a more quirky and comic angle on my story than a straight medical drama. I hope to look at what it is really like to be in the medical profession in an unvarnished and unglamorous way. I don't want to hear from George Clooney but from those of you who fainted at your first autopsy.

I would also like to hear what motivates people to go into the profession, and current feelings and opinions about the NHS, from a trainee doctor's point of view. I would like to hear about your ambitions and your backgrounds (particularly those of you who enter the profession from unusual backgrounds or who have changed to medicine from another subject). I want to hear about the pressures you encounter as students, your first impressions of student and of hospital life, friendships, personal stories - literally anything that anyone wants to tell me about what it is like studying medicine in Britain today.

Dictynna Hood
Email: dictynnah@aol.com


studentBMJ 2001;09:217-260 July ISSN 0966-6494