Hepatitis C infects an estimated five million Americans, though most of them don’t know it. Now, deaths from hepatitis C are on the rise in baby boomers. And new infections are creeping up among a younger generation of injection drug users. But there's new hope. Less than a year ago, their only options for treatment were complicated regimens of injections that caused major side effects and didn’t always lead to a cure. Today, new drugs can cure the disease, with few side effects. It's what many people living with hepatitis C have been waiting for. The trouble is, the drugs are so expensive they're out of reach for many. So where do we go from here?

Future Docs is a regional Edward R. Murrow award-winning radio and online documentary project that follows two second year students through a year of medical school. These "future docs" are in training at a time when when our health care system is undergoing massive change. Can medical schools adapt quickly enough to train the next generation of doctors? Future Docs peeks through the window of two students' experiences to learn how medical schools and our major graduate medical education system is adapting to this seismic shift.