Grab your person and settle in, because we now know what it takes to become a Grey's Anatomy doctor.
The long-running medical drama is welcoming newcomers Adelaide Kane, Harry Shum Jr. and Niko Terho for season 19, but not before putting them through their paces. As Adelaide exclusively detailed to E! News, the new Grey Sloan Memorial interns—which also include Midori Francis and Alexis Floyd—"started out with a two week boot camp."
"They taught us how to suture and how to check heartbeats," she shared, "and how to listen for breath sounds and how to intubate people."
And while the training for the show was very insightful, Adelaide noted that being thrown into a Grey's surgical situation was an "insane" experience. "You've got the surgical gloves on," the Reign star continued. "You've got hands in fake body cavities. There's so much to touch and pick up and you got so many tools in your hands. It is like a very grown up, very sterile playground."
As for how the Grey's newbies learned all the medical jargon, Harry said the secret was simply "repetition."
"We stumble a lot," he admitted. "Thoracotomy is the easier one. There are ones that I can't even repeat anymore. After it's done filming you just say, 'OK, hopefully we don't have to say that again. But we probably will.'"
This is certainly on brand for the new crop of interns, as Niko told E! News that the up-and-coming doctors are "messy."
"They're not very good at what they're doing yet," he added. "They're still learning."
As the Grey's Anatomy season 19 trailer notes, the show's new class of interns are not a group of shining stars. Namely, after having to rebuild their own residency program, the hospital selected doctors who may not have been placed previously.
"We didn't hire you for your grades," Ellen Pompeo's Meredith Grey tells the nervous group. "We hired you for your fight."
See how the new doctors do when Grey's Anatomy season 19 premieres Oct. 6 at 9 p.m. on ABC.